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    [–] spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I really recommend a HAT with SSD, totally worth the investment.

    [–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

    Yeah, but then you have to get a kind of case that can handle a Pi plus that hat. It's a good idea, it's just a bit more fiddly than just the typical booting from the SD card and doing everything that way.

    [–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Wouldn't an SSD run into problems down the line with too many Writes?

    [–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

    The amount of writes required to kill an SSD aren't going to be seen in the real world on a timescale of less than 10 years unless you're really doing something wild that you shouldn't be.

    An SD card might fail after it's full capacity being written a handful of times, SSDs can survive that several hundred times over. Seriously look up the terrabytes written specs for various storage mediums and calculate out the daily amount of writes. Oftentimes with SSDs you'd have to literally write a terrabytes of data a week to actually see a problem

    [–] weissbinder@feddit.org 11 points 2 days ago

    In my experience, that concern is way outdated.

    [–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Theoretically, yes, but I suspect the manufacturing quality of SD cards is a lot lower than SSDs

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    Not within the computer's lifetime. Consumer-grade SSDs are generally rated for 3000-5000 write cycles or more, and contain some kind of wear levelling mechanism to distribute write operations over the entire physical medium to reduce the chance of individual block failures. The first SSD I ever bought is still going strong as my server's root filesystem.