I had many problems with damaged storage media with RPi1, 2, 3, 4. Not all storage media had physical defects, but nevertheless the joy with the RPis was short-lived, whether SD cards, USB flash drives or SSds. Conclusion: I no longer use RPis. Vetti52 schrieb am Dienstag, 8. Juli 2025 um 15:13:49 UTC+2:
> Within five years i have lost three sd cards. All of them were used in Pi > 4. All had the same kind of error, which results in a complete write > protection. As long as the writing concerned logging into a virtual > partition, it could not be detected. So it could take some hours until the > failure was detected. Two were Samsung branded, one of them was a micro sd > card, only one Intenseo. Fortunately, it was easy to copy the data onto a > new sd card, as all data happen to be unerasably conserved. Unfortunately > some data were lost. > I have now a PI5 with a SSD mounted. I do not trust in sd cards for long > term usage any longer. > > p q schrieb am Montag, 7. Juli 2025 um 21:28:48 UTC+2: > >> Yep. Those are the numerous conversations that I referred to. I haven't >> had a failure in 5+ years either. Based on this data, I suspect it's low >> quality/counterfeit cards that caused problems for some folks. >> >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM vince <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I have never seen a card failure on any pi that uses microSD from pi3 >>> and zero up to current pi5. >>> >>> Tom ran a several year uptime test and never saw a failure either. >>> Check the group posts via search for many long threads, >>> >>> On Monday, July 7, 2025 at 8:38:57 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> https://www.bahjeez.com/the-great-microsd-card-survey/ >>>> >>>> There have been numerous conversations here about blaming problems on >>>> SD cards. This guy did a bunch of testing of different cards and may be of >>>> interest. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> 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 visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/159ab7e3-93d7-4359-b377-7ec034473b28n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/159ab7e3-93d7-4359-b377-7ec034473b28n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> Peter Quinn >> (415)794-2264 <(415)%20794-2264> >> > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/5ed1f327-98a4-4c5f-ba10-ba81d3fa4a13n%40googlegroups.com.
