Is SD card "quality" really relevant? I've long wondered why it remains the problem only on Raspberry Pi. One quirk of Pi is it doesn't have proper power circuit, likely for legal reasons. Are such design oddities really not have to do with early SD failures specifically on Pis?
It is not just a problem with Pis, but also other use cases in which the SD card is used 24/7, or at least for long stretches of time, especially if the use case involves writing of data. Dashcams are also notorious for destroying crappy SD cards due to their high write load, for example.
> I've long wondered why it remains the problem only on Raspberry Pi.
SD card firmware is often buggy and only heavily tested with windows. Camera manufactures will specify SD cards that are know to work with their cameras for this reason.
Guessing it's due to swapping? I imagine disk activity from a dashboard cam is a monotonous long write stream. Disk activity on a Pi is your modern VM OS constantly swapping memory between RAM and drive.
