That's just nuts! Talk about having confidence in your product.
I haven't been able to keep a MicroSD card usable beyond 3-5 years; and had 32 GB one fail in my Pi3 just last week. Granted, the larger ones (64 and 128 GB) do seem to be holding up better than the smaller ones (1, 8, and 32 GB) I've used. More cells to do wear-levelling over, and probably more over-provisioning as well (at least in the really large ones, 200+ GB).
It is meaningless though. Warranty for the most part are just marketing. Its like giving a 10 year warranty on a USB cable. They know you are not doing it, because by the time it actually does need warranty help its standard is useless they don't even make them.
I read someplace walmarrt extended warranty on items people buy nets them 50million+ a year, only like %1 of people ever need to use it.
Anandtech you have made my year! I have been looking for this product or something like it, for months now! :p Completely makes up for a crappy day here.
This plus a Nifty Minidrive (a microSD reader that sits flush with the slot) will make a nice Time Machine drive. Of course, it would only protect against drive corruption and accidental deletion, not loss or theft, so you'd need a second backup drive to go along with it.
At 10MB/s (ideal) this is gonna take 11+ hours to fill up completely...practically speaking more like 15+. My question is has there ever been a storage media that takes longer to completely fill up. Some backup tapes come to mind, maybe some parallel port hard drives from back in the day.
With a good UHS-I/II reader (Like the Kingston MobileLite G4 (FCR-MLG4)), this should do 50MB/s sustained, meaning a little over 2 hours to fill it up, not 11 hours.
10MB/s? Where did you get this number? It's more than likey 100MB/s and if it were UHS-II standard it would do nearly 300MB/s. I guess they went for capacity instead of speed on this one.
It's really intended to be filled up all at once though. I mean, you could do that if you wanted to, but that's likely not been a focus when they were designing it.
The speeds are only really designed for use as storage for cheap to prosumer cameras, and for fairly mild write and read demands from devices. Hell, it'll be good enough for the Nintendo Switch.
This plus a Nifty Minidrive (a microSD reader that sits flush with the slot) will make a nice. <a href="shikbar.com">باربری </a> That's just nuts! Talk about having confidence in your product.
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B166ER - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link
Wait.... when did SanDisk become part of WD???HomeworldFound - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link
The middle of last year, May I think.Bullwinkle J Moose - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link
10 YEAR WARRANTY!This is a very good sign
Hopefully we will soon begin seeing their SSD's match that warranty
phoenix_rizzen - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link
That's just nuts! Talk about having confidence in your product.I haven't been able to keep a MicroSD card usable beyond 3-5 years; and had 32 GB one fail in my Pi3 just last week. Granted, the larger ones (64 and 128 GB) do seem to be holding up better than the smaller ones (1, 8, and 32 GB) I've used. More cells to do wear-levelling over, and probably more over-provisioning as well (at least in the really large ones, 200+ GB).
imaheadcase - Friday, September 1, 2017 - link
It is meaningless though. Warranty for the most part are just marketing. Its like giving a 10 year warranty on a USB cable. They know you are not doing it, because by the time it actually does need warranty help its standard is useless they don't even make them.I read someplace walmarrt extended warranty on items people buy nets them 50million+ a year, only like %1 of people ever need to use it.
timecop1818 - Sunday, September 3, 2017 - link
No, you're not going to forget about warranty on a 400GB SD card unless you're fucking stoned.Bullwinkle J Moose - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link
Probably not though....SD card always have a longer warranty as they are not used nearly as much as an SSD
Rictorhell - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link
Anandtech you have made my year! I have been looking for this product or something like it, for months now! :p Completely makes up for a crappy day here.fletom - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link
This plus a Nifty Minidrive (a microSD reader that sits flush with the slot) will make a nice Time Machine drive. Of course, it would only protect against drive corruption and accidental deletion, not loss or theft, so you'd need a second backup drive to go along with it.CommandoCATS - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link
At 10MB/s (ideal) this is gonna take 11+ hours to fill up completely...practically speaking more like 15+. My question is has there ever been a storage media that takes longer to completely fill up. Some backup tapes come to mind, maybe some parallel port hard drives from back in the day.Kjella - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link
Try a 10TB drive, 25 times this capacity and you won't get 250MB/s sustained...ZeDestructor - Friday, September 1, 2017 - link
With a good UHS-I/II reader (Like the Kingston MobileLite G4 (FCR-MLG4)), this should do 50MB/s sustained, meaning a little over 2 hours to fill it up, not 11 hours.R7 - Saturday, September 2, 2017 - link
10MB/s? Where did you get this number? It's more than likey 100MB/s and if it were UHS-II standard it would do nearly 300MB/s. I guess they went for capacity instead of speed on this one.Tams80 - Sunday, September 3, 2017 - link
It's really intended to be filled up all at once though. I mean, you could do that if you wanted to, but that's likely not been a focus when they were designing it.The speeds are only really designed for use as storage for cheap to prosumer cameras, and for fairly mild write and read demands from devices. Hell, it'll be good enough for the Nintendo Switch.
Mikewind Dale - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link
$249 for 400 GB is not bad at all. Especially when it's ***Micro*** SD that can fit in your phone.jwcalla - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link
I'd like to have this in my phone and then I can do weekly tarball backups of my desktop computers to my phone.ferhad22 - Monday, October 23, 2017 - link
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ferhad22 - Monday, October 23, 2017 - link
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