For those of you who use Raspberry Pi’s in your home environment, I’m curious as to what you use them for. What applications are you running on them? Do you have your Pi’s setup in a cluster?
For those of you who use Raspberry Pi’s in your home environment, I’m curious as to what you use them for. What applications are you running on them? Do you have your Pi’s setup in a cluster?
For RPi the two major causes of issues (in my experience) are low spec power supplies and low spec SD-cards.
Power supplies drop voltage when the loads gets too high, which is especially pronounced with high power USB devices like external harddrives.
SD-cards tend to get worn out or give write errors after enough writes. Class 10 SD cards are recommended for both speed and longevity. And ideally try to avoid write intensive stuff on the SD card
Forget SD cards for Raspberry Pis - boot from an SSD in a USB enclosure, they have better longevity than SD cards.
Not all of them can run reliably without an external power supply and not all enclosures/usb hubs/sata adapters are supported. But yeah lot of people recommend that. I also had great experience with sd cards, but that might be just a luck