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Nebra Helium Miner EMMC SD Upgrade

This document provides instructions for upgrading the operating system on a Raspberry Pi by copying it from an original Nebra Helium miner EMMC SD card to a new RaspiKey EMMC module. The process involves formatting the new EMMC module to FAT32, using tools like gparted to prepare it, then copying the OS using Balena Etcher to validate it is an authentic version before use. Speed tests are run on the new EMMC to check performance.

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Nebra Helium Miner EMMC SD Upgrade

This document provides instructions for upgrading the operating system on a Raspberry Pi by copying it from an original Nebra Helium miner EMMC SD card to a new RaspiKey EMMC module. The process involves formatting the new EMMC module to FAT32, using tools like gparted to prepare it, then copying the OS using Balena Etcher to validate it is an authentic version before use. Speed tests are run on the new EMMC to check performance.

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Nebra Helium Miner EMMC SD upgrade

RasPiKey: Plug And Play EMMC Module For Raspberry Pi

Where to buy:

https://www.uugear.com/product/raspikey-plug-and-play-emmc-module-for-raspberry-pi/

https://thepihut.com/products/raspikey-plug-and-play-emmc-module-for-raspberry-pi?variant=39298109276355

This guide is for Linux users.

Step 1

This EMMC SD have Raspi IS preinstalled. Because of that before using to copy Nebra EMMC SD we need to
remove everything from memory and format EMMC SD using gparted. Always be careful to chose good SD and
not main system disk.

This is how everything looks before formatting EMMC SD key to fat32 file system.
First we are going to unmount this two partition, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. Right click on the partition
dev/sda1 et chose “Unmount”, repeat same thing for /dev/sda2.

Before After

Now we are going to delete this two partition. Right click on dev/sda1, chose “Delete”, and do the
same thing on 2nd one. In the end we will see one unallocated partition.

Next step is to format unallocated space to fat32. Right click on “unallocated, chose “New”. This will
open new window:
In this point we need to change value to “File System” to fat32.

After this just click on “Add”.

Next step is to save all changes. To do this we just need to click here:

This will open new window and we click on “Apply” :


Now from terminal run: sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1

In the next step we are going to copy EMMC SD from Nebra hotspot using Balena Etcher software that
can be found for free download here:

https://www.balena.io/etcher/

Before running copy of original EMMC SD, let’s see if our EMMC SD is original or fake. To see that
we are going to use F3 tool. On Ubuntu we can install this tool with sudo apt install f3. Then we are
going to run this command:

sudo f3probe --destructive --time-ops /dev/sda

Now let’s test write speed of UUGEAR EMMC SD


Now let’s test read speed of UUGEAR EMMC SD and if we get 0 corrupted output, that is good sign
that we have real original and not fake EMMC SD.

We can run same test on SD cards as well, and it’s important part of the process because even on
Amazon I have found fake SD cards and I managed to fix some of them using this tools.

If you run this benchmarks on your EMMC SD or SD, don’t forget to remove all files from it in the
end.

Nebra EMMC benchmark testing and checking if their EMMC SD is “real” one. First write than read
operation test.
End of process ...

Now start Balena Etcher and we will chose as source Nebra EMMC SD:
After this we chose destination:

And now we just click on “Flash”


button.
For making same copy from Nebra EMMC SD to SD took me about 1h, but thanks to speed of new
UUGEAR EMMC SD, this operation took only 20min.

Sync stability:

Testing 32 GB SD PRO Endurence – Samsung

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