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by olabyne 1179 days ago
Raspi's are stable if you respect 2 things :

- avoid writes to sd card too much (log2ram mitigates this, alpine in read-only solves this)

- plenty of power (the recent 3 and 4 have huge sipkes of current draw !)

Do you know the reason for your reboots ? Also before the 3+, the die have no RF shield. The B and 2 B+ are exposed if you don't use a metal case with a seperation from the PSU.

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> plenty of power

Actually this is a good point I forgot about.

I had one Pi which would reboot or hang every week or so. Dismissed it for a while but then decided to troubleshoot it. I had a USB cable tester, and quickly found that the USB "charging cable" I had bought from a local shop had a 1 Ohm resistance! Threw it away and replaced it with a good one and never had an issue again.

Yes. RasPis are stable except when they're not.