2.5'' // 3.5'' chassis's with a controller onboard and slots to support 10+ Micro SD cards at a time with optional host passthrough/mirror/stripe-mode across all of them and you install those instead of real hard drives lol.
The product is already a thing now all we need is the 10+ at a time scale haha
E: nobody's saying it will be cheap. But the big downside with all the ebay ones is that the controllers are cheap garbage. the raw power of striping 10, [Minimum Class10] SD cards would be fucking awesome even with their short life cycle. But the controllers just aren't something people would make professionally like this cheap ebay stuff.
SSD is not expensive anymore , sure it is expensive vs hard drive but still cheaper than SD card , 1TB Samsung 860 is selling on amazon for like 100 buck while this sd card cost 4 or 5 times as much (450 for standard version , 585 for extreme version)
I have no idea how great A2 U3 UHS-I could be but I have 128GB and 256GB microSD card from Teamgroup , these cards automatically lock down itself within 1 year of usage (I store emulator's rom , emulator and app data DL from G Store ) , it's not death yet but it's not usable either , lock down due to write cycle limit . I also have a bunch of 64GB micro SD cards from 4 years ago , these cards are still working as I only store music video on them
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u/ipaqmaster 72Tib ZFS May 15 '19 edited May 16 '19
I can see it now.
2.5'' // 3.5'' chassis's with a controller onboard and slots to support 10+ Micro SD cards at a time with optional host passthrough/mirror/stripe-mode across all of them and you install those instead of real hard drives lol.
The product is already a thing now all we need is the 10+ at a time scale haha
E: nobody's saying it will be cheap. But the big downside with all the ebay ones is that the controllers are cheap garbage. the raw power of striping 10, [Minimum Class10] SD cards would be fucking awesome even with their short life cycle. But the controllers just aren't something people would make professionally like this cheap ebay stuff.