> it doesn't run on an sd card that is going to fail within a year
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 has variants with eMMC, which is better than using an SD-card.
Additionally, there are adapters to use NVMe drives and you can boot from them. I’ve done so with a few RPi CM4, to varying degrees of luck. One of them works perfectly, another one did not. Currently waiting for more of the same adapter I used for the first one and hopefully this will allow the additional ones to work as well as the first one is doing.
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 has variants with eMMC, which is better than using an SD-card.
Additionally, there are adapters to use NVMe drives and you can boot from them. I’ve done so with a few RPi CM4, to varying degrees of luck. One of them works perfectly, another one did not. Currently waiting for more of the same adapter I used for the first one and hopefully this will allow the additional ones to work as well as the first one is doing.