bhat Posted May 6, 2020 Posted May 6, 2020 I know it is unsupported and all, but I just want to point out that running Ubuntu Focal(2020/05/03) with kernel 5.6 on Odroid MC1 has been destroying microSD cards. The board boots up fine, but after an apt-get update and a few minutes in, the Sandisk microSD card died and becomes read-only. I'm not sure if it is vendor-dependent, but I have tried out two new Sandisk microSD cards and they all turned read-only. This might be a kernel issue since on Debian Buster with kernel 5.4 or kernel 4.14 that never happened.
Werner Posted May 6, 2020 Posted May 6, 2020 Is there evidence that this is not just bad luck and the sd card died a natural death?
bhat Posted May 6, 2020 Author Posted May 6, 2020 Just now, Werner said: Is there evidence that this is not just bad luck and the sd card died a natural death? Well I did try multiple brand new microSD cards of different vendors, and microSD cards weren't supposed to die in a matter of minutes when I'm basically doing no intensive write operations on the board... In comparison, I have another Sandisk microSD card of the same type and I am running a ~4GB Postgresql database with constant write operations on Odroid MC1. It still didn't corrupt at all after 3 months.
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