[jdietrich]

>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...

[JohnBerea]

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.

[scns]

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...