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I have a few long time running Pis - and have been keeping them up for a decade now. No SD Card corruption ever and i got close to 1000 days uptime on one.

The biggest problem is loss of wifi, after a few months one will lose wifi, but keep working - it’s constantly recording data so a reboot is not a good idea. I’d prefer a solution where I could just reset the wifi, but all attempts to script that reliably so far failed.




I've got a few in factories (doing non critical stuff) at work. They auto reboot regularly because otherwise they'll lose whatever's on usb (reading those usb metering devices being the whole point of the PIs).




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