(12-23-2023, 01:07 PM)Tim Curtis Wrote: It's a myth that high quality uSD cards are unreliable or that pulling the plug on a Pi corrupts these cards.
I've been using high quality uSD cards as boot media for 10 years and only experienced maybe 3 or 4 bad cards. My cards get heavy write activity during development reloads and re-imaging and if I'm feeling a bit lazy I just cut power and still no issues whatsoever :-) Typical boot
FWIW: I use video class V10 or higher cards. My install of PiOS + OpenMediaVault would often not come back up when the power dropped (after our UPS ran out of juice). Swapping Pis didn't help either so it wasn't a specific card or pi. Switching to running the OS/OMV on external SSD did, and added a huge perfomance boost.
It is curious that it usually happened with the OMV server.
My other PIs were usually ok.That said, I agree, for most MoOde users, a good quality card is the simplest option and should work fine. High quality/Fast cards are cheap now. The problems of the past were often cheap cards. (When doing support for crystalbuntu and OSMC, we had countless install problems with cheaper cards and sticks that users had)
If the card ever dies... get another one for $20, and restore from cloned image. No worries about USB power requirements either.
@japumpy i would follow Tim's advice. For MoOde, just get a good quality uSD card for the OS, and you can use the USB SSD for storing the media.
