I installed my Weewx in 2019 on a Raspberry Pi 3B+, fitted with an mSATA extension card (such as this one : https://geekworm.com/products/raspberry-pi-3-x850-v3-0-usb-3-0-msata-ssd-storage-expansion-board ) and a 120Gb mSATA SSD. Zero issues, and still running today.
Le vendredi 23 février 2024 à 07:25:49 UTC+1, michael.k...@gmx.at a écrit : > I'm curious what hardware you are running WeeWX on, and your experience > with it. So, this is not about the weather station and the sensors, but the > device which is running the service. The reason I ask this here, is because > the issues I experienced with my hardware might be related to weewx and > writing it's logs, and we all know the first rule for posting a question > here :D > > Since my first WeeWX installation in 2015, I've been using every > generation of the RaspberryPi B, except for the 5th. But looking back it, > has sometimes has been a royal PITA. It's not that I consider the Pi being > bad at all, but I've been having issues with whatever storage I've been > using. SD-Cards were a total disaster, USB flash drives were slightly > better, USB attached SSDs, at least, lasted more than two years before > being attached to the Pi killed them. The only type that didn't fail so > far, was a NFS provided by a QNAP NAS, but this Kind of setup is a bit > complex to maintain, and starting the NAS over, means quite a bit of > downtime for the Pi also. > > The Pi never was intended to be a server running 24/7, considering this, > it's success in being used as such, is beyond imagination. Anyway, my > experience for the Pi being a storage killer, doesn't seem to be uncommon. > It's original intention was satisfied: I learned a lot about how not to > lose data with unreliable hardware. Since 2015, my database isn't missing > more than one archive value a day in average and the longest gap is about > two hours back in early 2016, using the standard interval of 5 minutes. > > What hardware are you using, what is your experience? > Can you suggest hardware with low power consumption as a requirement? > What about the newest generation, like Intel n100 based systems? > -- 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/9a847659-90a3-4922-9cc7-9369c54c9b34n%40googlegroups.com.
