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Lose more data, faster!
@schizoidman AliExpress already has got 2TB SD cards for 5 dollars, I guess soon you will be able to buy 4 TB from there for the same price as well 😁
(Never ever buy them from there!)
The first USB stick I bought, I saved up for and it was over $1/MB. It still works to this day but is so ridiculously slow and capacity limited there’s no reason to.
4TB in a little stamp is amazing.
I remember bringing a 64M USB drive to school and telling the librarians that “this is the future”
I think back then you needed to install drivers, so I was trying to get them to install drivers on all the library computers so that it would “just work” for students. Before then we used to have to burn files onto CDs or DVDs to bring them to school.
Tiger Direct had a 1GB card in 2002 and it was $900. Blew my money in a 128MB card and lost it. Heart broken.
We live in a world where we can store all books ever written in a plastic scrap
I just wish uSD cards didn’t die so easily.
Hopefully the lifespan scales with the amount of writable space. Would be even cooler if that factor was improving over time. Any studies or articles on the topic?
Maybe inversely because of the increased heat of the tightly packed components.
Shrinkflation!
Where the fuck should I stick it in?
Your stepdad?
Up the peehole. Just be sure to sterilize it first.
pihole*
What about 8 MB cards. Can I get one of those plz?
How long can they be used? Mine always wear out really quickly for some reason.
That does make me wonder how sd cards and ssd compare in terms of volume/tbw endurance. Does silicon have a typical lifespan per volume?
Lifespan per NAND cell, which gets exponentially smaller with each extra ‘layer’ per cell. SLC can do billions of writes per cell, QLC is ~1000 writes per cell.
Will be better for offline phone backup 👍
If you look at the petapixel article, they complain about the speed (10mb/sec not 100) and have serious doubts about the reliability. Using this for backup or for security cameras sounds like a bad idea. It could still be good for some things like carrying your movie library on your phone, while still having a stable copy at home.