No writes to the SD card mean it runs perfectly every time, and can’t damage the disk image. I use a ramdisk, and load the entire OS into memory, which sounds similar to Alpine’s solution. I roll my own distros for the RPi, when I can. The other cause of failure is not due to write cycles, but power failure on writes that corrupt the file system. I explained to them that SD have a fixed number of right cycles and that it’s much much lower than a hard drive, and they didn’t seem to care.

They slap a linux on an SD card with a Swap partition and wonder why they have to periodically send out SD cards to customer locations when their systems go down. I worked for a major manufacturer that has the exact same problem. raspbian, that don’t take into account that they are running on an SD card. The death of SD cards in an RPi is due to the ‘official’ releases of linux os, i.e. Posted in Raspberry Pi Tagged media box, media player, raspberry pi Post navigation The Raspberry Pi makes a rather excellent basis for a media player build, and we’ve seen some stunning examples in the past! We can imagine it would come in handy for a conference room or other situation where users grow tired of messing around with configurations to get screens to work. It’s a interface without much flexibility, but it makes up for that in barebones simplicity. No buttons, remotes, or keyboards needed! Simply pop in an SD card or USB drive, and the content starts rolling. The Pi is configured to continually scan the /media folder for mounted devices, and play any videos it comes across. Rather than fiddle with complex interfaces or media apps, instead, the PiVidBox uses a simple script. Cheap, capable of playing most common codecs, and fitted with an HDMI port as standard, it’s a perfect platform for the job. The build, unsurprisingly, starts with a Raspberry Pi. is a fan of a clean, no-fuss approach, so built his PiVidBox along those lines. Back in the days when torrents were king, DVD players and TVs started to sprout USB ports and various methods of playing digital videos, while hackers repurposed office machines and consoles into dedicated media boxes. The media landscape in the home has changed precipitously over the years.

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