Hi,

In the early days with my Pi farm, I lost* a few SD cards.

I then moved on to keeping my / file system on a usb flash drive, this was 
a bit better, but I still lost* a couple of those.

I then tried putting / on my NFS server. This worked fine, except that when 
I had too many (4+) RPis using this arrangement, crashes (recoverable) 
would become annoyingly frequent.

I've also done things like stopping swap space and so on.

My current arrangement (I have around 10 RPis) is a mix. I have a few using 
/ on my NFS, a few "SD card only" and a few where frequent writes (images 
etc) are stored on the NFS as a mount point. With this, everything ticks 
along nicely and I haven't lost a card for a few years.

I also use "raspibackup" to image the SD cards once a week.

I have to say that I have a bit of an aversion to using powered USB hubs - 
it's a personal  preference!

Cheers

* "lost" means completely unreadable/unwriteable


On Monday, October 31, 2016 at 9:34:25 AM UTC+1, Jacek Skowroński wrote:
>
> Hi,
> How does Your sd card "live" in raspberry pi?
> On my example I lost 5 cards already - all of them by 3-4months long.
> Is it normal?
>
> Yust now I'm looking to get rid of sd cards and write down data somewhere 
> else.
> Any topics? Any hints?
>

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