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Tell that to the original Raspberry Pi's floating around that are old enough to be enrolled in high school.

That's not been my experience with the original Pis. We ended up mounting cards as read only because they wouldn't last otherwise. Syslog and various other processes, even with light IO would render the cards useless after a month or two.

Also: a lot of OS distributions aimed at SBCs with microSD storage forgetting to set noatime/relatime on their file systems, to avoid thousands upon thousands of writes for access time updates whenever files are read. It's only just recently that OS vendors finally woke up and realized what was going on.

relatime is default option since forever. (certainly since before rpi was even a thing)

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v2.6.30/source/fs/namespace... (some random old kernel)

That's good info and news to me. "relatime" is unfortunately a silent killer as well, albeit nowhere near as intense as "strictatime".

Were they high-endurance SD cards? In my experience, people usually aren't aware there is a difference between standard and high-endurance SD cards. The former should last years on a light I/O raspberry pi workload.

Okay, so don't use 90% of SD cards.

On their original SD card? Probably not, especially on the earlier raspi models.

"Hey, original Raspberry Pi, you have no bulk flash storage on board so I don't know why this guy is trying to get you into unrelated discussion about durability of bulk flash storage in the first place!"

Here, I told it.

Also they are "just" 11 years old so you've managed to be wrong on everything you said somehow..

I have, on numerous occasions. It's one of the reasons why general desktop use on them can be so infuriating.

I have old raspis, the SD card failed.

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