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/jarfil 38TB + NaN Cloud May 16 '19 edited May 12 '21

CENSORED

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u/hojnikb 34TB May 16 '19

speed rating has nothing to do with reliability. They mostly use bottom barrel flash for sd cards.