Lost 2 SD cards that way. It's a relic that should be phased out in favor of NVME or SATA.

What SD cards did you use?

I have seen high endurance ones available.

These have never failed me:

https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/a/atp/advancedm...

I even set up a testing rig to do randomized power shut down thousands of times; they didn't fail:

https://forums.balena.io/t/raspberry-pi-atp-amlc-microsd-car...

Found these via this 2018 HN comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16777238

Nice ascii art. Originally done in markdown, no doubt?