I have about 150 beaglebone's running wild over a large geographical area, basically all over British Columbia. When I first deployed them last year they all started failing within about a month. That amounted to a lot of needless driving, hair pulling, forehead banging and just general over anxiety - its a wonder I'm still alive.
I eventually ended up using two uSD cards, one with a read only mounted filesystem and the other used for writing data (ext4). My beaglebone's are paired with a msp430 so I have managed to ensure they also receive a nice, clean power down. So far its been about a year and I'd say well over 95% are still working fine. However, I recently talked with a tech support from an industrial SD card manufacturer and he informed me that SD cards that are only ever read to can also fail eventually. He suggested that you write a little bit once in a while to activate the wear levelling mechanism. As things seem to be working (for now) I haven't drummed up the courage to try writing again. Now we have the beaglebone black with 4G eMMC and I'm wondering just how much more reliable eMMC is compared to the stock Kingston 4GB cards in read only mode that came with the Beaglebone. I know eMMC is supposed to be much improved having an integrated controller but wonder if in a read-only scenario it makes any difference? Furthermore, I wonder if others on here can offer any experiences or comparisons of eMMC to say SLC memory? Thanks -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
