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   Hello Kai!   
      
   Sunday January 10 2021 16:08, you wrote to Tony Langdon:   
      
    > Hello Tony!   
      
    > 10 Jan 21, Tony Langdon wrote to Kai Richter:   
      
    TL>> I'm one running modern software (Synchronet) on modern hardware   
    TL>> (Banana Pi) under a modern OS (Linux). :)   
      
    > In the 486 aera i was on OS/2 until P1/133, then i had an easy   
    > migration to Debian. I used squish/2 before and it was easy to   
    > transfer the config to hpt.   
      
    TL>> Have to do the 6 monthly SD card replacement (preventative   
    TL>> maintenance).   
      
    > Good decision. I had three USB sticks that died without any warning.   
    > My node system used LVM to bundle several disks into one volume. I   
    > bought a new disc every year until i had 4 of them ready for raid. The   
    > main advantage of non-raid LVM is the ability to merge all disks into   
    > a big one and reduce the size of the volume group to remove a disk.   
      
    > I still have the idea to plug two dual sd-card readers (SD + micro-SD)   
    > into the pi and build a raid on four sd-cards or sd-card/usbstick   
    > combinations. But i don't know what performance the pi would do with   
    > that. It could be a way to get the most "wear" out of the sd or   
    > sticks.   
      
   Got around such a problem as well as speed issues by buying some extra kit to   
   allow a sata HDD to act in place of a SD card from boot.   
      
   It is a lot quicker but as the HDD passes data through one of the Pi's data   
   port it is not as quick as via a sata 3 port but it is a lot more reliable.   
      
   Vincent   
      
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