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The only gripe I have about this is that it appears to be dependent on a microsd card for storage. Is there an alternative? I've been burned one too many times by corrupted storage on those to go there again.

Other than that, I want five of these.

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Corrupted storage is a pain :( The Beepberry firmware can safely shutdown the Pi before disconnecting power, so hopefully that will help with SD issues. raspi-config also has a read-only overlay filesystem option now.

I started buying high endurance SD cards years ago and have never had a problem with them.

BTW are they more sensible to X rays? I've had one die early.

+1 they're quite cheap now -- as of writing, $17 for a samsung 128gb, $15 for sandisk 128gb on Amazon. I have a fleet of Raspberry Pi that have been using these cards.

The other thing you can do is to buy two and clone your SD card (or back your card up as a `.img`).

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