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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi & Gentoo?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:44:42
Message-Id: 534F15D7.6040706@iinet.net.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi & Gentoo? by Stroller
1 On 04/16/14 23:46, Stroller wrote:
2 >
3 > On Wed, 16 April 2014, at 4:34 pm, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> …
5 >> 1. What is better to use as OS-storage: USB-stick or SD-card?
6 >> I have read horror stories about SD-cards being fried/bricked
7 >> quite frequently so I'm a little scared. But I never found
8 >> single post about problems with USB-stick...
9 >
10 > In terms of frying/bricking USB sticks are just the same kind of flash memory as in SD-cards, surely?
11 >
12 > Both are $8 for 16GB of storage, so wear / failure is only a concern if the server is to be inaccessible.
13 >
14 > Stroller.
15 >
16 >
17
18 One for playing videos recorded on a myth system (nfs mount) - original
19 4G raspian SD overwritten with gentoo
20 one used for low power storage (32gb SD) for a security camera ... stage
21 the images on the rpi, power down the big stuff at night and when
22 available move the files into the main storage (all automated).
23
24 Both have been running since the first rpi model B's stated shipping
25 with the only problem being the ext4 filesystem I chose to use (yuk)
26
27 BillK

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