Re: {Debian (>=Jessie)} AND { MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card, etc}
On 2016-12-03, deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Steven Mainor wrote:
>
>> I don't know if this helps answer #3 or not. I have ran Debian from a
>> microSD flash card before but the card reader was attached via USB.
>>
>> It didn't last very long before the flash card degraded. I think running
>> an operating system on flash used up the read/write cycles too quickly.
>> I eventually decided to find another solution. But it may not be an
>> issue for your use case.
>>
> I don't think so. I have a low power industrial pc used as firewall. It runs
> on Compact Flash card for >6y now. I recall there were at least 100000
> write cycles per sector and self diagnostic, so I would suspect something
> else would be the problem.
>
Wouldn't some of the advice for SSD optimization
(https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization) to improve life span and avoid
"degradation" (if that's indeed the word) be applicable here?
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