On Monday, December 21, 2020 at 11:00:40 AM UTC-8 Tom Keffer wrote: You *always* want to do a backup, even for an SSD, but SD cards can provide long life provided:
- You get a good one. Not the one that came with the $59 IP camera you bought 3 years ago; and - You use a UPS. ...and adding on - ALWAYS use a quality power supply when using a pi, as poor power is the quickest way to get a SD card to fail, 'especially' on a pi that is not a pi3 or pi4 model. Check your syslogs for evidence of periodic low power as these things might be transient. For example - I'm driving a pi3 attached to a 10" display that came with its own power supply that can feed the pi. All it's doing is running a browser with an always on dashboard, but every time weewx runs its archive interval I get a low-power set of messages in syslog saying that even that is pushing the borderline power a little too far. It's very repeatable. The pi are 'very' sensitive to borderline power being provided... -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/c41dd291-6aa7-4029-8ce1-da7df3f0c971n%40googlegroups.com.
