Comment on Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Why not just buy a good SD card? My dashcam has been recording ~16/5 for the past 3 years onto a Sandisk extreme dashcam SD card and it’s still going strong with no issues. If it can survive the extreme heat and cold of being in a car I’m sure it will survive in a Pi just fine.
All of my SD cards that have failed have been bargain brand cards. None of my high quality ones have failed on me, I lose them before they go bad.
traches@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I have a decent Samsung card in there now, it might survive. Can’t remember what brand the one that failed was, but I don’t tend to buy crappy ones
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Which cards are you using? Just because it’s samsung doesn’t mean it’s good.
My dashcam uses mostly this “SanDisk 256GB High Endurance Video” SD card, and my backup is a 512gb Samsung Pro Plus (not rated for dashcam use). For anything that I want reliability I use one of these SanDisk cards, that Samsung, or a SanDisk extreme that I bought the other day. My “I don’t really care about this, but I’d like it to not fail” cards are Samsung Evo Select drives (or something green and Samsung). Only my “I really don’t give a shit about these” drives are those $3 Microcenter cards.