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by BoorishBears 93 days ago
I like that it's an SD-card based RPi: something known to fail under completely normal usage

For the margins a $280 MSRP allows you'd think they'd at least try a little bit: maybe hook people up with the RPi Compute Module which has eMMC onboard
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sgbeal 93 days ago
> I like that it's an SD-card based RPi: something known to fail under completely normal usage

FWIW, my pi-hole server has been running 24/7 on a Pi Zero with the same micro-SD card for some 4-odd years.

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theshrike79 93 days ago
FWIW my pi-hole server ran for 2 years and broke 3 SD-cards, and it didn't even have the courtesy to fail fast, it started kinda-failing and DNS requests started taking forever (the pihole had to time out twice before the fallback DNS was called).

Moved to an Actual Computer with a M.2 SSD and zero issues since.

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MrDrMcCoy 93 days ago
That's likely with constant power and low writes. If either of those flip for long enough, bye bye flash.
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