On 2016-12-03, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Steven Mainor wrote: > >> I don't know if this helps answer #3 or not. I have ran Debian from a >> microSD flash card before but the card reader was attached via USB. >> >> It didn't last very long before the flash card degraded. I think running >> an operating system on flash used up the read/write cycles too quickly. >> I eventually decided to find another solution. But it may not be an >> issue for your use case. >> > I don't think so. I have a low power industrial pc used as firewall. It runs > on Compact Flash card for >6y now. I recall there were at least 100000 > write cycles per sector and self diagnostic, so I would suspect something > else would be the problem. >
Wouldn't some of the advice for SSD optimization (https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization) to improve life span and avoid "degradation" (if that's indeed the word) be applicable here? -- “It is enough that the arrows fit exactly in the wounds that they have made.” Franz Kafka
