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Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wanted to reuse one for octoprint, but it turned out to be unreliable. So I switched to my NUC instead.

I have the feeking that those SD cards just don't perform well and wear out more easily, and I really use good ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Small piece of tape on one of the 4 exposed USB leads on the connector trick fixes this problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Forget SD cards for Raspberry Pis - boot from an SSD in a USB enclosure, they have better longevity than SD cards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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