Six years is probably not that lengthy within the grand scheme of issues, however assume again to what the world was like then. At the moment the current chip scarcity was nonetheless years away, COVID-19 had by no means been heard of, and you would purchase a brand new Raspberry Pi for $25. It was at the moment that Reddit consumer KerazyPete fired up a Raspberry Pi 1 Mannequin B revision 0002 and by no means regarded again.
This early Raspberry Pi mannequin, geared up with simply 256 MB of RAM, was paired with a RFM12B 868 MHz transceiver to gather temperature and humidity measurements from sensors all through KerazyPete’s residence. All collectively, this method has been operating faithfully on this capability for 10 years. Nonetheless, because of prolonged energy outages, the Raspberry Pi has rebooted a handful of instances. Finally examine, the uptime was at 2,331 days, which implies this pc has been up and operational for almost 6.5 years, with the assistance of a UPS that retains every thing operating when there are minor blips within the energy provide.
It shouldn’t come as a shock {that a} Raspberry Pi is chugging alongside simply high quality in any case this time. In any case, these little computer systems have earned a terrific popularity inside the hobbyist group partly because of their reliability. Nonetheless, it does seem to be some small miracle that the uptime is as nice as it’s contemplating that the system depends on an SD card and a USB stick for all of its storage. If there may be an Achilles’ heel to a barebones Raspberry Pi set up, it’s positively the relative unreliability of those cheap storage choices. If in case you have been utilizing Raspberry Pis for any size of time, corrupt SD playing cards are most likely not a overseas idea to you.
Regardless of the causes could also be for this prolonged uptime, right here’s hoping that it’s going to nonetheless be operating when its distant relative, the Raspberry Pi 10 makes its debut. Carry on holding on, little Raspberry Pi!