Hi, I am about to build and deploy an instance of openHAB for my old man. He currently has a Fibaro Home Center Lite and it is a POS. I am trying to work out the best platform to base his new Z-Wave controller on, and was wondering if the Pine64 + Zwave module is worth consideration? My first thou…

Well, Pines do suffer from SD corruption just as much or as little as do the RPis. Pines don’t offer any specific advantage there, and given they’re pretty new, I doubt there’s enough experience even in this community to rely on. You could also get a RaZberry or ZWave.me stick , that one has been ar…

Thanks Markus, I assumed it was the case re. SD cards. I think I will stick with a Pi then, and try the external HDD boot option.

What about the Orange Pi, in my prelim investigations it looks like it has onboard storage (EMMC flash). For a simple openHAB installation would this be sufficient, or would I still need a SD card?

There’s a number of eMMC systems (I have a Odroid C2 that I can recommend, it even has analog inputs), but although not as well known, eMMC storage has the same problems as SD cards do. Same for USB stick based OS and even SSDs (although those come with a buffer so they don’t break as fast as SD car…

Hey @ben_jones12 what did you end up going with here? I’m still tinkering with OH2 and the raspberry pi2 I have definitely takes a while to boot etc. The Pine64 is much cheaper so I was thinking of trying it out.

I run openHAB on a VM on my home server, was just commenting on this thread sorry Tommy.

Did you end up doing something for the “old man”?

Sorry mate, knew I should have re read the whole thread! I ended up going with a RPi3 and have all logging writing to a RAM disk to try and save the SD card. After doing some research it turns out all these single boards have the same issue with the SD cards.

A Pine may be cheaper but it’s not substantially faster. If that’s really what you’re after, check out the Odroid C2 that I mentioned. But hey, you shouldn’t be booting your OH server once a day anyway, so why not stick with the Pi2. I’m running my house on one, too. By the way, I just went through…

Why is everyone so afraid of SD card corruption? [image] openHABian: Problem after upgrade Items & Sitemaps Hey everyone, wave SD card wear is a scare story and overrated in my opinion. Every SD card utilizes a technique called wear leveling, distributing wri…

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ThomDietrich ( ) March 18, 2017, 10:50am 11

Why is everyone so afraid of SD card corruption?