On Wed, 13 May 2015 09:07:44 -0500
bownes <[email protected]> wrote:
> For the advocates of RPi solutions, I put about half a dozen in to support
> some non mission critical infrastructure about a year ago. We are using them
> for for logging, reading QR codes, running a vending machine, kiosk web
> browsers, and similar tasks. In short, nothing requiring heavily lifting.
>
> I've been incredibly dissappointed in the results. Well over half of them
> have needed replacement and not a one runs reliably. They need rebooting at
> intervals from hours to a few tens of days to recover from total lock up.
> The problem is not environmental, power or SD cards.
Do you know what the problem is?
I know that the RPI has pretty cheap design (like most of these super-cheap
SoC boards) and does suffer from a few problems. The most common one
is under-designed power supply. Together with the ultra-cheap wall-wart
supplies mostly used results in a quite decreased MTBF due to spikes/drops
on the power rails (BTW: soekris suffers from that too, just that a better
wall-wart supply doesn't help). Depending on the environment, in which
those boards are run, overheating might also be a problem.
Other than that, i am not aware of any software or hardware issues that
would cause the RPI, or any other board, to run unreliably.
Attila Kinali
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