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?