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A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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My Raspberry won’t boot up

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    richardh151 @earnestrichards
    last edited by Aug 29, 2020, 12:17 PM

    @earnestrichards Thanks for your feedback but it’s a Kingston SD card and I can see the contents on the Card when I Plug it into my PC. I think the SD card is not the Problem, but I’m no expert

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      sdetweil @richardh151
      last edited by sdetweil Aug 29, 2020, 12:47 PM Aug 29, 2020, 12:45 PM

      @richardh151 sadly these SD cards are a lot more fragile than they would have you believe. the actual memory cells are write once. so as u write more times, u leave behind old dead, used memory cells, until you run out, and then the card is useless.
      I have gone thru 8 memory cards.

      on.my two mostly development machines, I have moved to boot from SD card, run from SSD.
      it has the same memory issue, but due to the size, will take a lot longer to run out.
      (recent reports of a windows 10 defragmentation bug causing early SSD failures from this problem. see https://www.pcgamer.com/amp/windows-10-bug-wrecking-ssd/ )

      so, my best suggestion, get a new card, and an adapter, flash raspian on the new card, and then use the adapter in a USB port on the pi to copy the MagicMirror folder to the new card.

      and get a bigger card than u need

      Sam

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        earnestrichards @sdetweil
        last edited by Aug 29, 2020, 1:49 PM

        @sdetweil That’s interesting, and disconcerting, about the Win10 SSD problem.

        How long do you estimate that your cards last?

        Does reading the card inflict damage the same way as a write would?

        I think I will also keep at least one cloned SD card handy.

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          sdetweil @earnestrichards
          last edited by sdetweil Aug 29, 2020, 1:57 PM Aug 29, 2020, 1:54 PM

          @earnestrichards read does not affect like write does. and of course for low write environments, like cameras and music devices, the cards last near forever.

          my 8 cards have failed since Nov 16 when I started working on pis. lost a pi 3 mm card 2 weeks ago. luckily it wasn’t customized.

          Sam

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            richardh151 @sdetweil
            last edited by Aug 29, 2020, 3:35 PM

            @sdetweil Thanks Sam

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