""shitty node and a shitty experience and bound to break in less than 2 years" can you expand on that? Mine looks to be running fine for about a month now on rpi5. Haven't encountered it "breaking". IDK what you mean by node breaking.
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Storage is usually the first thing to go bust, specially if using an microSD card for the OS. But even USB connected storage is slightly better but still shitty.
I'm speaking from my personal experience and many others. You're just running it for 1 month. I was like you before, check my earliest notes, I would die defending my rpi.
+1 here
Well yes, Micro SD can't stand to this, that's a very well known thing. I've been only running BTC node for a month but I've been using USB SSD powered multiple rpi for years, and been running a Monero node for the last 10 months w/o any problems. I'm using 4 for different reasons like Home Assistant, remote VPN and seed box, n8n instance, Monero and BTC nodes, media/Samba/Plex server etc. They've been pretty reliable overall. That's why I asked. So, I didn't start using these yesterday, or a month ago. Wondered what's the thing you encountered that I haven't in years on multiple different rpi and use cases.
You keep saying it breaks or it's shity, but not mentioning what breaks or what's shitty exactly? USB HDD speeds? Overall system reliability? Are the HDD enclosures controllers dying on you? Is it the cable? Is it the USB port? Is it the operating system? Is it the lack of AArch64 software support? Cooling? Processing power? Ram? What is it? I'm no fanatic of any SBC, just trying to understand why the most popular SBC that I've been using w/o problems is bad for this purpose.
For what Raspis are going for now, it's just worth way more bang for buck to buy a used laptop Thinkpad or used mini business desktop like a ThinkCentre or Optiplex. Saw one the other day for $60 with 16gb ram, i5, and 1 TB SSD. You can typically find them sub $100
I knew I shouldve jumped on it. It's gone now 😅
This's a common theme on the internet.
Person A says rpi is bad for purpose X.
I ask why.
People start commenting that there's better compute for similar price.
Except it's not answer to what I asked. My question isn't trying to discover best compute for pi price, it's trying to discover what's bad about pi for purpose X.
"Why pi is bad for purpose x?" and "Can I get better compute for purpose X w/ similar price point?" are different questions.
I gave you a straight answer: storage is suboptimal and fragile, not my fault if you don't believe me.
If you want more reasons:
* aarch64 is a shitty architecture: bootloaders are different for each hardware and are super proprietary, hard to configure and just terrible in general compared to standard x86 bootloaders.
* there's less software support overall for aarch64
* rpis heavily depend on proprietary firmware for most basic functionality, almost nothing is upstreamed to the linux kernel
"storage is suboptimal and fragile, not my fault if you don't believe me."
I accept defeat, I'll assume you think rpi puts a Demonic curse on the same SSD that's used everywhere when you connect it to rpi, given no other form of explanation is provided despite asking multiple times/ways.
