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Why are Rpis still bothering with SD cards? Who did not get their pi card corrupted while used as a server?

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Second paragraph in the article:

"Raspberry Pi 500+ boasts ... an internal M.2 socket pre-fitted with a 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD"

so I'm not sure what your point about SD cards is in this case.

I did not!* Through many Pis serving many years and experiencing many power outages.

But I'm using CanaKit power supplies (which supply 5.1 volts, Rpis are notoriously flaky if the voltage dips just a little below 5v) and ATP industrial automotive-grade flash cards (not a big premium in absolute terms, I think 32 gig cards are $13 on Digikey).

* Okay okay, before I switched to those accessories I did have problems.

Yeah, worst thing about it. You can’t really push it to do a lot of tasks because sd cards are so unreliable, compared to nvme for example.

This has an nvme with the OS pre-installed.

It has a built-in 256GB SSD

The SD card is a very easy common and well documented way for new users to image the device.

Are sd cards still corrupting all the time in rpi servers even with high-quality SLC sd cards, or just with cheap consumer sd cards?

Most likely cheap or fake SD cards. I've been running a Raspberry Pi camera (recording) to a SanDisk SD card for years and it's still going strong.

Same here. My Raspberry Pi Zero camera has been running non-stop for more than 2 years without a single issue.

Just to add to this train, I've run at least 10 Pis on microSD cards averaging 3 years each (mostly Pi 4s, added a couple Pi 5s), and have not had one issue on any of them... it's mostly down to using a good microSD card (I settled on SanDisk brand), a good power supply (good PoE+ HAT or official PSU), and not writing tons and tons of data to microSD (use NVMe or USB SSD/HDD if you need that).

I put an NVMe SSD in a USB3 enclosure and boot my Pi 4 from that, just to be safe. But I've never actually experienced Pi SD card corruption. I don't know whether it's because I choose good power supplies, good cards, or both.

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