Comment by egorfine
4 days ago
> microSD is corrupt and everything you've set up is gone
Unlike Intel servers, where corruption of the boot media is of course of no consequences.
4 days ago
> microSD is corrupt and everything you've set up is gone
Unlike Intel servers, where corruption of the boot media is of course of no consequences.
I didn't say that. It's just a reply based on my personal experience - I've set up probably 10-12 raspberry pis around my home for various projects, they all died due to SD corruption within a year. My intel-based NAS has worked fine for 8 years with no issues, then I finally replaced it with a newer one, that's now been running for 6 years. Obviously, anecdotes, the intel server is a lot more expensive, yes yes yes. But like OP said, Pis are not a great choice for anything like a home server because they aren't very reliable(imho) - maybe that works for your usecase, or maybe for most peoples usecases. I'm personally steering away from them except for some hobby tinkering.
I'd say that to painlessly use Raspberry Pi, one has to be aware of the glaring shortcomings of SD cards as root storage.