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[Discuss] SD Cards, cheap and here for a while?



On 08/24/2016 08:12 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>
> I've also found SD cards to be unreliable (sometimes but not always
> DOA) compared to SSD.  I bought a new micro SD for my phone; I tested
> it prior to entering it into service, and it locked up hard after
> about 4 GB of testing, after which it went permanently catatonic.  The
> card it replaced developed silent write errors after about 2 years.
> And I had had another such that was *ahem* mismarked.

I am using Micro SD cards as "hard drives" on pi2 nodes,
about 25% of them are bad. It is OK to use them
for temporary storage of data, you don't want to use them as your
primary storage.

-- F. Ozbek




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