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>One of my main concerns about the use of a raspberry pi as a desktop PC is microSD card write lifespan.

If you're so inclined, you can buy microSD cards with better endurance ratings than typical consumer SSDs.

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/embedded-removable-f...

I still have issues with the high endurance cards. Bought two identical high endurance 128GB's for Pi4's. After 1 day of use each (with minimal writes beyond installing RPi OS), GParted could resize one partition, but the other failed due errors that couldn't be repaired with fsck.

Did you use another filesystem than what they came with? Possibly you overwrote the section where the sdcard stores some important data. Check out this page: https://superuser.com/questions/381208/how-can-i-format-an-s...

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