On 12/06/2021 22:14, NY wrote:
"Fredxx" wrote in message
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Yes you were wrong to make the statement, "I think the RPi is not
considered the best choice for a serious / long term system is that it
runs on an SD and that's not good for long term writes".

You didn't think and anyone with knowledge about the Pi would have
known this was a lie.

Agreed that you don't have to write a log file to a Pi's SD card. But if
you write it to a networked drive, *that* drive needs also not to be SD,
otherwise you are no better off. And writing to a physically-connected
disk (whether SD card or USB-connected spinning or solid-state disc) is
probably more reliable than writing to a network drive, where writes
(and reads) will fail if the network server (probably using SMB) fails
or the network infrastructure fails.

you can stop logging altogether or write it to ram disk


How does the Pi (or indeed any computer that has a solid-state disk)
manage to read/write/overwrite a swap file, where the contents will be
changing very frequently as different memory pages are swapped between
RAM and disc, without rapidly degrading the disc? Am I correct that it
is the number of writes (as opposed to reads) that causes the gradual
damage to an SSD?

you can eliminate swap altogether, or write it to a ram disk. Pointless,
but easy to configure if you cant get rid of swap altogether

I cant answer for the NVRAM chips used in pis, but on a 'real' SSD the
lifetime seems to be *better* than a real disk



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that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

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