I have a 'workhorse' Pi at the centre of my home network (email, DHCP, NTP, etc) and found that even a thumb drive suffered after continuous use. I bought a 60 GB SSD (Solid State Drive) and it's been working now for more than a year.
Neither SDs nor thumb drives have the automatic redistribution logic of SSDs, so using them to write data that is being repeatedly altered (like log files and email folders) can really impact them. Thumb drives do seem to survive better than SDs, but SSDs are much better still.
- Richard, VE7CVS
On 6/22/15 4:53 AM, KD6OAT wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ Reminds me of when I first used JNOS on the RPi. Had to replace SD card a couple of times. Then decided to put jnos on thumb drive so all logs and jnos writing activities go to thumb drive media instead of SD. Has worked well ever since. 73-Ken KD6OAT