View Single Post
Old 10-11-2025, 09:55 PM   #4
DNSB
Bibliophagist
DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
DNSB's Avatar
 
Posts: 48,673
Karma: 174510110
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Vancouver
Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos
The numbers tend to vary wildly depending on the brand, size, use of wear levelling, etc. At a minimum, 10,000 write cycles would be expected with some cards claiming up to 100,000 write cycles. On the µSD card I used in my Raspberry Pi 4, it took a lot less time than I had expected to run into problems but then like most Linux OS, Raspbian was endlessly writing small chunks and the wear levelling seemed to be fairly ineffective.

One item I found useful was the LinuxPi's The Pitfalls of Long-Term SD Card Usage in Raspberry Pi Projects. Since a Kobo ereader uses both logging and a database, it does make using SD cards for storage a bit iffy for heavy use.
DNSB is offline   Reply With Quote