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paranoidrobotyesterday at 4:29 PM1 replyview on HN

I wouldn't put running a weather station in the same class of disk activity as running Home Assistant. It is writing a fairly large amount of logs, plus statistics for every attribute/sensor for every device. The more devices you have, the more you will be writing.

There are regularly threads from people with "I restarted HA and now I get this weird boot error message", and it's because their SD card died.

You do you, but it's common enough of a problem that I think it's worth calling out as a "Don't do this".


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zikduruqeyesterday at 4:45 PM

I run HA on another RPi, so I am familiar.

On the weather station I wrote to the SD card 1,068,266 database records, along with all the nginx logs, etc...

> it's common enough of a problem

It's probably survivorship bias, where everyone complains about SD card corruption, while those with no issues really don't say anything. Well, except my comments today.

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