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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I remember bringing a 64M USB drive to school and telling the librarians that "this was 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Tiger Direct had a 1GB card in 2002 and it was $900. Blew my money in a 128MB card and lost it. Heart broken.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

@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!)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The 100mb/sec are becoming a bottleneck for some use cases, but the capacity is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even the 100MB/sec won’t work for long as these stupidly small MicroSDs tend to heat up A LOT and then go into throttling where the transfer rate goes down to <1MB/sec.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Product idea: "water cooled micro SD card reader"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Nah, just need more RGB.

Did you know all MicroSD that's heat up and throttled doesn't have RGB?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

So basically an aquarium sized apparatus add-on for a device that's smaller than your fingerprint

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Linus? 'That you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'd say it's perfect for security cams or any cams using compression. You could store 14 days of 5120x3200, 60 fps, H.256 HEVC video. Or ~1 day of that at 850 fps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Lose more data, faster!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just wish uSD cards didn't die so easily.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe inversely because of the increased heat of the tightly packed components.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

What about 8 MB cards. Can I get one of those plz?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How long can they be used? Mine always wear out really quickly for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Shrinkflation!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where the fuck should I stick it in?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Your stepdad?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Up the peehole. Just be sure to sterilize it first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago