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tiffy:
My RPi 3B decided to give up the ghost today or to be more accurate the 16Gb. micro SD card, in 24/7 service running DSLStats, harvesting my 1312B-10A routers stat's..

Initially noticed that DSLStats had locked up although the RPi was still responding to all commands, however, on attempting to re-boot the RPi wouldn't come back to life.
Memory card checked in another RPi and confirmed corrupt / faulty.

Re-programmed another 16 Gb. card, taking the opportunity to upgrade to "stretch", old card had still been running "jessie".
Stored an image of the completed configuration and back in service.

Re-formatted the old memory card and re-loaded full configuration without any errors, currently running this in a spare RPi, not sure if I will trust again for DSLStats service accepting that SD memory cards do have a finite life span.
Not sure of it's age but has been in DSLStats 24/7 service for some considerable time certainly back to MDWS days.

underzone:
I use these memory cards in my Pi's:

https://news.samsung.com/uk/samsung-electronics-redefines-high-endurance-memory-card-market-with-new-pro-endurance-card

Weaver:
Which size cards can I use? I am interested in getting one of the cards you recommended.

I need some help from someone to get an operating system onto a card ready to use by SSH with no mouse or keyboard, so I can immediately just login to it over the (wired) LAN. If anyone has experience of an AArch64 system then that would be really superb, I would be very grateful.

tiffy:
I've just been using SanDisk cat 10 cards, mostly from Argos @ around £10 for 16Gb. micro SD cards, certainly nothing special but adequate to date.
Of course DSLStats with it's 60 sec. sample rate and 24/7 running cycle is quite an intensive work load, my 2 RPi Zero's certainly max out their CPU's during and for quite a time after sampling.

May have just been program corruption, after re-formatting and program re-loading looks OK again as I said, time will tell.
Could invest in a better quality (more expensive) card or just except the possible limitations of cheaper alternatives.

underzone:
Not bad for £17.49

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07CY3QSST/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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