Apparently RPI-3 killing SD cards is not new or uncommon. A lot of complaints. here is just one on the raspberrypi forum.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... p?t=140845
I was at the discount store and picked up a cheap 16gb SD for $7.00. Thought I would try my RPI-3 again. This cheap cards is slow even though the package label stated fast. The cheap card was around 900K transfer rate compared to the SansDisk at 10m transfer rate. Took an hour to burn an image. Plugged it into my RPI-3 and it came to life. The RPI-3 is definitely running a lot slower than running that the SansDisk but it is running. I'll let it run for a few days to see how it survives. If the PI-3 and card survive I may spring for a little faster SD card. One with a rating of 8 at least. I am wondering if a faster SD makes everything run faster so more heat generated toward SD self destruction.
For those that are interested I ran across this article about making the RPI-3 run off of a USB flash drive instead of a SD drive.
http://oskarhane.com/basic-raspberry-pi ... -raspbian/Statistics: Posted by TomTheWhittler — Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:54 pm
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