Raspberry Pi is frustrating and I wanted to vent
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@micah said:
I didn't really write this post for help, although that's always welcome, it was more just as a place to vent. When I try and explain this kind of stuff to my friends their eyes just glaze over and they have no idea what I'm talking about.... I think I need to find some new friends who are technologically competent
We're here for you!
But yeah change that SD card. I had a similar thing with an ESXI install.. bad USB stick although it seemed to be working fine with anything else I did with it... 2 weekends spent on that... -
Yeah, sounds a lot like your SD card. I had the same issue when I first got a raspberry pi, dodgy SD cards are a nightmare. Only get them from places you can be sure of authenticity, even brand name ones can be fakes that constantly corrupt themselves.
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Do you have any old SD cards laying around? Check your old phones, too. Maybe try and swap it, just for troubleshooting purposes, with a known good one?
@TRS-80 I used to have a nice high quality 16gb card in my cell phone, but I recently gave it to my son for his tablet :( that's what I get for being a caring father... lol
I tried a few more installs last night of versions 1.5 and 1.8 and 1.9 of noobs and they all failed with different issues, so I'm ready to admit that it's the card.... so I'm off to the store at lunch for a new one.
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Yeah, sounds a lot like your SD card. I had the same issue when I first got a raspberry pi, dodgy SD cards are a nightmare. Only get them from places you can be sure of authenticity, even brand name ones can be fakes that constantly corrupt themselves.
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@micah said:
I didn't really write this post for help, although that's always welcome, it was more just as a place to vent. When I try and explain this kind of stuff to my friends their eyes just glaze over and they have no idea what I'm talking about.... I think I need to find some new friends who are technologically competent
We're here for you!
But yeah change that SD card. I had a similar thing with an ESXI install.. bad USB stick although it seemed to be working fine with anything else I did with it... 2 weekends spent on that... -
@the1laz so what you are saying is that the super cheap ones on AliExpress are not high quality real ones? :laughing:
lol
I guess that's the cost of getting cheap components directly from China.... every now and then one of them is crappy
@micah yeah,I don't think anyone is under any illusions about random eBay/aliexpress SD cards being legit. :P
I was surprised at how bad they can be though. I thought that maybe they'd not last a long time, be slow, or error sometimes. Instead, it corrupted itself constantly. >:(
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@micah yeah,I don't think anyone is under any illusions about random eBay/aliexpress SD cards being legit. :P
I was surprised at how bad they can be though. I thought that maybe they'd not last a long time, be slow, or error sometimes. Instead, it corrupted itself constantly. >:(
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I just so happened to be shopping for a Micro SD card recently, to expand the storage on my phone.
Very carefully reading the reviews, some people, even ordering directly from Amazon (i.e., not a reseller) apparently have had problems! Much of the review discussions are, in fact, centered around determining whether you have a fake or real card. And this is on Amazon, even!
I'm just about as cheap as they come, but buying certain things (storage media being one of them), I bite the bullet and make sure I am getting genuine brand name, and from a reputable dealer.
Especially when "biting the bullet" only amounts to a few more dollars anyway! It's just not worth the frustration and your time diagnosing.
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I just so happened to be shopping for a Micro SD card recently, to expand the storage on my phone.
Very carefully reading the reviews, some people, even ordering directly from Amazon (i.e., not a reseller) apparently have had problems! Much of the review discussions are, in fact, centered around determining whether you have a fake or real card. And this is on Amazon, even!
I'm just about as cheap as they come, but buying certain things (storage media being one of them), I bite the bullet and make sure I am getting genuine brand name, and from a reputable dealer.
Especially when "biting the bullet" only amounts to a few more dollars anyway! It's just not worth the frustration and your time diagnosing.
@TRS-80 said:
even ordering directly from Amazon...
Amazon is just a good buyer friendly platform. If you buy any media storage from a top name (SanDisk, Samsung), it is 100% genuine. For example, this microSD card:
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@micah I think you can get a Samsung Class 10 microSD card for like $10 or something. I would avoid using a noname card from eBay/Aliexpress. Saves a lot of time.
BTW - this is hardly RPi's fault, isn't it?
@alexsh1 said:
@micah I think you can get a Samsung Class 10 microSD card for like $10 or something. I would avoid using a noname card from eBay/Aliexpress. Saves a lot of time.
BTW - this is hardly RPi's fault, isn't it?
Your right, it isn't the RPi's fault, although would it kill them to just include an 8gb flash chip on the device
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@alexsh1 said:
@micah I think you can get a Samsung Class 10 microSD card for like $10 or something. I would avoid using a noname card from eBay/Aliexpress. Saves a lot of time.
BTW - this is hardly RPi's fault, isn't it?
Your right, it isn't the RPi's fault, although would it kill them to just include an 8gb flash chip on the device
@micah said:
@alexsh1 said:
@micah I think you can get a Samsung Class 10 microSD card for like $10 or something. I would avoid using a noname card from eBay/Aliexpress. Saves a lot of time.
BTW - this is hardly RPi's fault, isn't it?
Your right, it isn't the RPi's fault, although would it kill them to just include an 8gb flash chip on the device
Re flash on the device - That's completely different discussion. What needs to be onboard is an endless talk - there are a few of those threads on raspberry.org .
Personally, I am fine with the microSD card.
