Tom, 

Out of curiosity, what are you running for backup power?  Surely you’re power 
has flickered enough to almost two years to trigger a reboot. 

> On Jul 4, 2020, at 5:02 PM, Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> A quality SD card makes all the difference. I've been running an instance 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.
>>> 
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