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Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption | Hackaday

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/02

[Wayback/Archive] Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption | Hackaday is long and worth reading.

For me the most important bits are how to prevent SD card wear:

  1. use good quality power supplies
  2. put write-heavy operations to SSD
  3. if it suits your use-case, use OverlayFS

The first is always a good idea. It is the primary reason all our electronics live behind a UPS:

In addition, I posted my personal experience (Samsung microSD cards last way longer than SanDisk cards) on Twitter:

[Wayback/Archive] @hackaday I’m have been running a few Raspberry Pi systems with 8-32Gb micro-SD cards as web-dashboard with refreshes every few minutes or so: much write access. When using Sandisk (no matter the type) they last about a year, Samsung (no matter the type) cards last multiple years.

Via: [Wayback/Archive] hackaday on Twitter: “Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption https://t.co/R8KNVmQORD” / Twitter

EMP

We had a lightning strike in the evening on 20181111 some 50 meters from our home.

It killed immediately killed this (some pictures further below):

  • Ingoing phase L3 (which is outgoing phase L1) before the electricity meter (the 240V/25A fuse was fully blown); the power distribution company arrived within an hour to fix this
  • The power supply of the microcontroller of our Victron Energy battery
  • A fuse in our solar system
  • The network switch and Apple TV in our living room (which we cannot get to from UPS power due too a building construction issue: the PVC pipes going there are all filled with concrete)
  • The fan/light in one of our bedrooms
  • A few USB power bricks
  • The USB ports of a combined power/USB outlet

Within a few months, 3 more motors of the roller sunshade/shutters died as well as the garage door motor.

Some neighbours had small electronics die. Their bigger electronics survived.

Lightning in The Netherlands on 20181111 via [Wayback/Archive] KNMI – Onweerarchief at [Wayback/Archive] 20181111.png (681×613):

Those were challenging times already (the real struggle began in fall 2019):

So it took a while to get some of the stuff repaired:

–jeroen

Pictures directly after the lightning strike

Lightning app screenshot

[Wayback/Archive] photos.app.goo.gl/cdhS5RrB3zaXBpRU7

Roof and surroundings the day after

[Wayback/Archive] photos.app.goo.gl/Ui15fG1kXngAq6Hy5

Power meter L3 incoming

[Wayback/Archive] https://photos.app.goo.gl/iCiQ74FQrAQSV26v9

Meterboard

[Wayback/Archive] photos.app.goo.gl/5vyxrfXtpyL6yPo89

Victron energy power supply and panel

[Wayback/Archive] photos.app.goo.gl/FAr1JydVRCDPWHZ17

[Wayback/Archive] photos.app.goo.gl/1r9586NuEC6TcvSX6

[Wayback/Archive] photos.app.goo.gl/jfaMB8G4iQ4dRbNW6

Solar inverter

[Wayback/Archive] photos.app.goo.gl/jkHrqcngmB1aWGC1A

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