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		addandsubtract 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How reliable are MicroSD cards? I switched away from RaspberryPi's because dealing with their SD cards and the pain of setting up an alternative boot drive was too much for me. I'm happy to use an ESP32 for smaller projects or an N100 mini PC for equal or more demanding projects.

eddyg 11 months ago [–]

I've had good success with lightweight Debian OS variants like DietPi that are designed to minimize writes (i.e. by using RAM-based logging)

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