A quality SD card makes all the difference. I've been running an instance <http://www.threefools.org/weewx/status/index.html> of weewx since 2014 on a SanDisk Extreme Plus without any problems. Uptime is currently 530 days!
-tk On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 4:16 PM John Pierce <[email protected]> wrote: > I did move my /var/log to a ramdisk. since the rpi isn't doing > anythng but running weewx, I don't expect there is much other writing to it. > > oh, and I got a high write endurance microSD card, too, after killing my > first one. > > thats something I hate about SD cards and USB Sticks, they don't have any > diagnostics ala smartctl, so there's no way of knowing how much write > endurance they have left. > > > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 4:01 PM galfert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It isn't the minute by minute update that kills the SD card, rather the >> OS that is hammering away at the SD card in a much worse way than the >> minute by minute update. Of course the minute by minute update doesn't help >> but that part is minor compared to what the OS is doing. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/8Ym49pN2Gq8/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e39a1737-f92f-4390-b662-bba901df5700o%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e39a1737-f92f-4390-b662-bba901df5700o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > -john r pierce > recycling used bits in santa cruz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAJnkzXKJPcxaDVBBD_2xWjA5o5w04jQi9HeywyuX0K8aKgoSow%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAJnkzXKJPcxaDVBBD_2xWjA5o5w04jQi9HeywyuX0K8aKgoSow%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEDoY55y36d3KJLYc1XXuw2YOZh5dvMu%3Dzud%3DJRNGD3cag%40mail.gmail.com.
