Nail Raspberry pie It is a device with which we can multitask, such as a media center, a server or even play retro games, however, How long do these devices last?being smaller, cheaper and simpler, do they have a shorter lifespan, or on the contrary longer than a PC?
Well, today we are going to see one of those teams that is over 10 years old and It hasn’t gone out for over 6 years.. This is quite curious, especially because he has been working all this time and in an important security task.
An eternal Raspberry Pi?
We bring today’s case thanks to a Reddit user, called KerazyPete, known to be a developer, who showed us one of his equipment, in this case a Raspberry Pi that has been working for 10 years, although, for necessary reasons it was restarted, and currently it has been running for 2,331 days, which would be equivalent to 6.4 years
All this time it was in operation, without producing errors and continuously, but you want to know why? Well, fortunately he would have told us about it too, and this Raspberry Pi would have functioned as the person responsible for monitoring the temperature sensors that this user would have in his home. A seemingly “simple” task, but which requires constant operation and monitoring 24/7.
To do this, I would use an open source application called EmonCMS with which I would manage the data and represent it through a visual interface.
The Raspberry Pi model used would be 1B revision 0002
According to the screenshots, this equipment would have been connected for the first time on November 30, 2013, so I would have been 10 years oldof which the last 6 would have been carried out without interruption, and the others would have only been restarted due to unexpected power outages, immediately resuming work, so we could say that it has been 10 years without stopping.
This is great news, especially since we are talking about the first models of this device, which makes it more interesting to know the useful life of a modern device, which will supposedly have better materials and components for it .
For now, we can’t say how long it lasts, because it continues to work like day one, according to this user. It is true that its function is not as powerful as other types of servers, where it might have required more power and wear, but it is still surprising how something so small, simple and cheap works so well.
And not only the equipment itself, but the SD memory and the USB stick would also take all this time without stopping, so I would like to know the model of both, because they also have their merit.
And you what do you think ? Do you think the Raspberry Pi had such a long lifespan or did you think they would die sooner?
