Raspberry Pi trashing SD cards
One of my Pi 4B systems runs an ADSB grabber for Flightradar24 *. A few weeks ago it lots the SD Card so I rebuilt it. That card had been in for some time but I didn't record when. Silly. Anyway, a few weeks went by and it lost the new one. Now, rebuilding is not a huge issue as I record every step in a file, so rebuilding takes maybe 30 minutes and I never bother to image the SD card because if I add a step then I would need to make a new image etc. So I rebuilt it again but this time I added the SDD which was originally the server Pi disk (thay was replace dby an actual mini PC with a spinning disk). The Pi was in a 3D printed case but the SDD was just resting behind it on top of one of the radios. Off to printables.com - there were a few models for Pi systems with SDDs but none of the vertical stack types would fit. Then I found one which has the Pi and SDD side by side and it works really well. The Pi has a PoE HAT and…
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