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by interactivecode 2174 days ago
The advice is to buy a quality SD card and backup data that shouldn't be lost to a more reliable location. S3 bucket, a local NAS or something like that. The general idea with Pi's and IoT devices is to act more as input point for data or programmable controllers rather than reliable networked storage or server space.

also Pi4 now supports boot from USB: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/boot-raspberry-pi-4-usb