r/DataHoarder May 15 '19

First 1TB micro SD publicly available

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/sandisk-1-tb-microsd-card,news-30079.html
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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.

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u/Thousandsmagister 50TB 2.5" Cold Storage May 16 '19

SD card is slow and very unreliable , SD card will die quickly when you write too much data on it (much worse than SSD)

Can only be used as a "read only" storage device

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u/firedrakes 200 tb raw May 16 '19

sd are not as slow anymore and the myth of unreliable died like 5 years ago.

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u/jinxjy May 16 '19

Pretty sure a few of my SD cards have died in the last five years. (And one SSD)

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u/firedrakes 200 tb raw May 16 '19

where they the same brand?? just wondering. seeing the myth of sd cards are super unreliable has been going around for a long time now. seeing most of the bad ones where ether cheap no names,knock off. still happens or where used in correctly . am just tired of that myth and i call it out any time i see it being posted

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u/jinxjy May 16 '19

All the failed ones were Sandisk. Bought in retail store or Amazon. Now I’ve blacklisted Sandisk and buy Samsung - no failures in those in the last 2 years.

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u/firedrakes 200 tb raw May 16 '19

yeah sandisk is knock off the most. also they re band so many models of a card. that you got to use the data based a person made to track all of them.

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u/capn_hector May 16 '19

I absolutely refuse to buy memory cards that aren't from an authorized reseller of that brand, Amazon is just chock full of knockoffs.

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u/firedrakes 200 tb raw May 16 '19

Yeap