now for something completely different

[Colin Law]

On 8 January 2016 at 17:23, Dave Liquorice <allsorts at howhill.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:06:55 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> Why would the files have to be on a USB drive?  Why not the SD card?
>
> Reliabilty? I've "killed" an 8 GB microSD card and an 8 GB USB stick with a
> Pi being used as a webcam and producing a time laspe movie. OK one full HD
> frame every 30 seconds and rendering those into a roughly 2 min timelapse
> every 6 hours is rather high use of "disc" storeage but bothe the card and
> stick only lasted a few months before going into "safe" mode. ie you can
> still read the contents but not write anything.

That would not be a requirement, merely an advisory if many large
files are downloaded.  If, for example, one just used it for
occasional radio programmes then it would not be an issue at all.

Colin