It was the watchdog rebooting the device as intended. It's happy and alive with it connected to 0V. I'll read the fine manual next time, I suppose.

Next problem I encountered was 100% inodes usage. Luckily a more common issue, I found a log folder that was very full and cleared that.

I sent in an email to support and they were kind enough to gently suggest it was the watchdog rebooting the device. 60 sec timer on the WD and 30-40 seconds for the device to finish booting and starting services is a good fit for the behaviour I've registrered. Shorting WD to 0V seems to have solved...

I manage to get to 3.7GB with dd before it reboots , using: Getting around 24MB/s, would adjusting the block size be helpful at all? USB 2.0 bandwidth should in theory be a little higher.

Hello. A client of ours purchased 2x RevPi back in 2021 and recently turned in one of the devices as a "no boot". It turns out they meant it keeps crashing/rebooting, which I have confirmed. It's being used as a calendar and control for heating/blinders for meeting rooms or something of th...