This is just sharing of thoughts, no question for help. yet your thoughts on the matter are appreciated Recently, I encountered many issues with OpenHAB that most likely were caused by a faulty SDcard as @rlkoshak was suggesting. That kinda got me baffled. It was a new Kingston 16Gb SD card, boug…

[image] Kees_van_Gelder: It was a new Kingston 16Gb SD card, bought at a reputable store and maybe 2-3 mo old. Check out: Making sure you're not a bot! It seems that some models of Kingston (16G Class 10) have issues. In general I would make sure that the Power Supply is a good quality one.…

Thanks, I got an SDC10G2./16GB and that one is reported as OK in your (useful) link. Powersupply seems OK, supposed to be able to give 2Amps. not sure if that is the ‘official’ one, got it together with the RPi3 as a package deal. Thanks for yr links

I would consider moving root to a flash drive. I feel they have better lifespans and should be a little faster. I also would clone my card/flashdrive after i got it working the way i want and after any changes. That means 2 clones, 1 (#1) working the way i want and one (#2 ) after changes. If the ch…

Thanks. One could put the root on a flashdrive, but I like the ease of Openhabian that just puts everything in the right place for me. Indeed I keep a full diskimage to restore, which is what I did in this case. At worst my items file might be a bit behind, but I make a regular backup of that file …

Openhabian habian-config gives you the option to move root to flashdrive some where in the menu.

Then I certainly will need to have a look at that, thanks :wink:

[image] Kees_van_Gelder: what can cause an SD card to go faulty after 3 months? … Is it the many card operations? Manufacturing problems and/or lots of file writes. Writes are what wear out an SD card over time. Loggers and persistence are going to be the biggest sources of writes on the SD …

Thanks Rik, yes I agree, I just had not expected it to happen that fast, hence I spend too long trying to find ’ the problem’ Might be a good idea to use a tempfs and maybe I should go to HDD.. will miss the easy openhabian setup then :slight_smile: I indeed had been making snapshots. Itemsfile an…

[image] Kees_van_Gelder: Might be a good idea to use a tempfs and maybe I should go to HDD.. will miss the easy openhabian setup then :slight_smile: The openHABian scripts that let you put the root on a USB drive should also work with an external HDD/SDD.

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Thoughts on failing SD card

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ThomDietrich ( ) July 20, 2017, 3:56pm 9

My opinion on the matter: Concentrate on a backup strategy.

See: openHABian: Problem after upgrade - #8 by ThomDietrich