On Wed, 13 May 2015 09:07:44 -0500 bownes <bow...@gmail.com> 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 -- < _av500_> phd is easy < _av500_> getting dsl is hard _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.