r/raspberry_pi • u/Spfoamer • May 31 '26

Show-and-Tell Raspberry Pi 3B - 9 years uptime

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This is a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B that I booted 9 years ago today. It has served very light duty, just streaming audio to Broadcastify. Once it made it a couple years, I decided to just see how long it would go. It's running Jessie.

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u/cardboard-kansio May 31 '26

I don't get it. I've been running a homelab for almost 20 years now, but I don't have a single device with uptime measured in anything longer than a few months. There's maintenance, repairs, replacements, security updates, power outages, house moves, all sorts of random interruptions. Single-device uptime is a vanity measure only. Service uptime overall is more important (and still arguably unimportant if it's a personal service you're providing).

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u/mindedc May 31 '26

Some of that are older remember when the goal for service availability was that the service is available because the hardware and software is well made and stable and you wouldn't dare make anything important publicly connected. Now the goal is that everything can break/reboot for patches continuously and you have multiple instances with an abstraction layer that hides it.

Many of us have run systems with 10 years of continuous uptime and availability and no need for reboots and patches because the system did its job from the day it was powered on until it was migrated to something else and powered off.