Hi, I am looking at using the BeagleBone black for an embedded project, where the unit will have to go on working for years at a time. We have been using the RaspPi, but found that the SD cards often become corrupt if we ever had a hard restart - sudden power off. I am hoping that because the BBB has proper flash ram with a decent memory controller we will get much less of this. Does anyone have any experience of this issue on the BBB? Thanks Chris
Don’t see corruption so far but I think it can’t be ruled out. Probably also depends on your work load. Maybe keep the OS on eMMC in relative read only and keep rewritables on the SD? Allows for sanity checks and repairs on SD contents at boot time.
There are industrial SD cards which handle running an ext4 on them much better than the consumer cards.