Yeah but it's also SD cards in particular and Raspberry Pis in particular.
I found GoPros to cook SD cards from time to time. It makes me wonder if normal sized SD are still manufactured and are they more resistant. For years in stores I only saw miro SD with adapter to full size.
Early on Raspbian didn't specify noatime or even relatime; every time something was read off disk, a write happened.
Let alone things like putting /var/tmp and/or /var/log in RAM, or long commit intervals.
No idea what the current situation is; Pis are too dear for the likes of me now.
I’ve had the same issues in the Pi1-3 era, can’t say for sure if it was the Pi, the SD card, or the software running on top (HA was a big culprit). The last issues were probably before 2018-2018. Since then I don’t remember having any failure and I have a bunch of Pi3s and 4s running with flawlessly for about that long, including HA.
Since then I’ve been careful to buy high quality cards, oversized them a bit, optimize the OS and apps with regards to writes (like no unnecessary logging), and paid attention to airflow. The software probably also evolved to fix the issues.
Are there other computers that run off of SD cards long term successfully that are not Raspberry Pi’s?