> My engineering sense says RPi isn’t a good choice here, there’s a lot of potential failures that could happen
Amen to that.
I blame the YouTube influencers posting all the RPi content that would make you believe you can run the world on RPi. Some of the shit they post is truly dumb ... Ceph clusters on RPi ? Rather you than me !!!
I once experimented with Pi's just for a fun unimportant home-server project. I got sick and tired of all the dumb failure modes, even when I expressly went out and bought high quality industrial SD cards, went above and beyond to minimise SD card IO etc. And that was just the SD card issues.... Never again.
This was precisely my experience too, and as someone who's got a plural of decades farting around with low level Linux, this was not a fun experience. I wonder how many people got jazzed about, then turned off of Linux because of such experiences?
Just anecdote, but I haven’t had SD card issues in 6-8 years, and my RPi usage has gone up a lot. That includes a setup with very read/write-heavy process that ran for 2+ years without issues. It filled up the SD card every 45 days, and only had reliability problems when I forgot to transfer data and it filled up the card.
That was just a decent consumer-grade SD card.
I’m not sure your experience happens to most people, at least not recently.
Amen to that.
I blame the YouTube influencers posting all the RPi content that would make you believe you can run the world on RPi. Some of the shit they post is truly dumb ... Ceph clusters on RPi ? Rather you than me !!!
I once experimented with Pi's just for a fun unimportant home-server project. I got sick and tired of all the dumb failure modes, even when I expressly went out and bought high quality industrial SD cards, went above and beyond to minimise SD card IO etc. And that was just the SD card issues.... Never again.