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by outworlder 1179 days ago
> I know that you didn't ask, but my $0.02 is that yes, RasPi's are unreliable. If you use one for as an unattended remote server, it will do you well to include a hardware watchdog that power cycles the device after it hangs.

Maybe you got a bad batch. My Pis never had any problems whatsoever.

Please check logs to see if they are experiencing brownouts. Not all power supplies work, specially with a Pi4.

The thing that likes to fail a lot is SD cards. My homeassistant Pi uses a SSD(harvested from an old Chromebook) because of that.

TinyMiniMicros seem to be a better option than NUCs these days. Boot faster too.