Raspberry Pi write cycles

-----Original Message----- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton via cctalk Sent: Friday, August 9, 2019 3:44 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Raspberry Pi write cycles I did have a case where the Pi I was using as secondary DNS/DHCP and as the secondary backup server (using USB spinning disk) destroyed its SD card. But then it turned out not to be the load at all. No matter what I ran on that Pi, it would corrupt its SD cards in a matter of weeks (the symptom was that the fourth bit of some bytes would just stick on). I assume it was just something broken in the Pi itself. === The usual cause of this is an insufficiently beefy power supply. Every Pi that I ever had that ate SD cards ceased the habit when I put a better supply on it. Jim