Other than power failures that corrupted the OS, I have only had problems with a low-end Lexar SD card that proved to be unsuitable for the purpose. I agree that a UPS or battery backup of some sort (there are hats available) is a necessity.
On Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 9:24:04 AM UTC-4 Graham Eddy wrote: > the feedback i have seen often in the forum is that power glitches can > corrupt the SD card, so always use UPS with RPi+SD > *⊣GE⊢* > > On 8 Jul 2025, at 11:20 pm, '[email protected]' via weewx-user < > [email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/5ed1f327-98a4-4c5f-ba10-ba81d3fa4a13n%40googlegroups.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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3d509742-8666-4f8d-ad5f-72250ca664e3n%40googlegroups.com.
