I shouldn't have broken down and purchased SanDisk 400GB cards for my phone and tablet. With more competition, the prices will drop in the 512GB space and since moving off 256GB, I'm already starting to look at the ~110GB left on each of my current cards and cringing a little. I need more space for videos, but then again, the difference between 400GB and 512GB isn't that much. I think I'll have to start getting a lot more selective about what I keep on my phone before we get 1TB microSD and I upgrade again.
I know what you mean, its hard to test also because the test itself could bork the card. Prob just get a micro SD reader and copy it full and remove data to see speeds in windows. But the most annoying part of microsd cards is no one has made a multiple microSD card reader to make testing fast! I'm not sure why this does not exist. I mean sure bandwith would slow between cards if using more thanone, but its more about having access to a lot at a time instad of constantly swapping in and out to see what is what.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ just reminding you guys as each microsd card is ~0.165 milliliters we have 512gb*22941(cards per galon) = 11.5 petabytes per gallon! with 400 GB cards it was just 9.
I know i'm a lightweight in this scene but my first computer had 40 MegaBytes of HD space, and sported a full meg of RAM. Upgrading it to two megs set my family back a couple hundred dollars.
Today the computer in my bedroom has 64GB of the fastest ram available, which only cost 2.5 times that extra meg of RAM (that was 1992, this was 2016). I have roughly 80TB of both internal and external storage scattered around the house, the whole of which contains exponentially more information than the Great Library of Alexandria did before the Romans burned it to the ground.
The 6700k and GTX 970 which drives the rig in my bedroom are millions if not billions of times more powerful than the processing power that sent our boys to the moon. The titanium Seasonic power supply fueling that rig is probably more efficient than the rocket engines our boys strapped themselves to.
When it comes to politics, the more things change the more they stay the same. When it comes to technology, the more things change... the more they change exponentially.
And hey guys, let's use technology for the benefit of us all and not as tools of destruction, oppression, subjugation, or control.
Just a note, but this is NOT the Lexar that everybody remembers. Micron purchased Lexar and eventually sold the name. This brand is now owned by Longsys, a Shenzen, China-based flash memory company.
Pixel phones would if They would have se card slot ;) Actually good question and I think that there just Are not so Many phones that support that. Even Samsun Galaxy s9 has A1 sd slot, not a2. Maybe next year?
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PeachNCream - Monday, November 5, 2018 - link
I shouldn't have broken down and purchased SanDisk 400GB cards for my phone and tablet. With more competition, the prices will drop in the 512GB space and since moving off 256GB, I'm already starting to look at the ~110GB left on each of my current cards and cringing a little. I need more space for videos, but then again, the difference between 400GB and 512GB isn't that much. I think I'll have to start getting a lot more selective about what I keep on my phone before we get 1TB microSD and I upgrade again.deil - Monday, November 5, 2018 - link
make home NAS and use 8x 15 TB platters.= ~60 TB of safe space. With enough config you have automated backup, upload and access from all devices.PeachNCream - Monday, November 5, 2018 - link
That's like using a sledgehammer and railroad spikes to hang a cat meme poster on a corkboard.Xajel - Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - link
Dude you have big imagination :DLauRoman - Monday, November 5, 2018 - link
MTBF is 5 days, right? :Dgodrilla - Monday, November 5, 2018 - link
Whats the best tool to test the speeds of micro sd cards heard there is a lot of fakes being sold out there.imaheadcase - Monday, November 5, 2018 - link
I know what you mean, its hard to test also because the test itself could bork the card. Prob just get a micro SD reader and copy it full and remove data to see speeds in windows. But the most annoying part of microsd cards is no one has made a multiple microSD card reader to make testing fast! I'm not sure why this does not exist. I mean sure bandwith would slow between cards if using more thanone, but its more about having access to a lot at a time instad of constantly swapping in and out to see what is what.frodesky - Monday, November 5, 2018 - link
https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/01/multi-card-sd-an... There are also multi-SD readers if you do some googling, and can easily be used with adapters.deil - Monday, November 5, 2018 - link
https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/just reminding you guys as each microsd card is ~0.165 milliliters we have 512gb*22941(cards per galon) = 11.5 petabytes per gallon! with 400 GB cards it was just 9.
alacard - Monday, November 5, 2018 - link
I know i'm a lightweight in this scene but my first computer had 40 MegaBytes of HD space, and sported a full meg of RAM. Upgrading it to two megs set my family back a couple hundred dollars.Today the computer in my bedroom has 64GB of the fastest ram available, which only cost 2.5 times that extra meg of RAM (that was 1992, this was 2016). I have roughly 80TB of both internal and external storage scattered around the house, the whole of which contains exponentially more information than the Great Library of Alexandria did before the Romans burned it to the ground.
The 6700k and GTX 970 which drives the rig in my bedroom are millions if not billions of times more powerful than the processing power that sent our boys to the moon. The titanium Seasonic power supply fueling that rig is probably more efficient than the rocket engines our boys strapped themselves to.
When it comes to politics, the more things change the more they stay the same.
When it comes to technology, the more things change... the more they change exponentially.
And hey guys, let's use technology for the benefit of us all and not as tools of destruction, oppression, subjugation, or control.
Xajel - Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - link
So how much data my fuel tank can hold ? 70L = app 18.5gal.PeachNCream - Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - link
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."-Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83
Replace tapes with microSD cards?
harrkev - Monday, November 5, 2018 - link
Just a note, but this is NOT the Lexar that everybody remembers. Micron purchased Lexar and eventually sold the name. This brand is now owned by Longsys, a Shenzen, China-based flash memory company.nimi - Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - link
I honestly did not know that, thanks for the heads up. Steering clear of Lexar from now on.frodesky - Monday, November 5, 2018 - link
So which phones actually support A2 cards these days?haukionkannel - Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - link
Pixel phones would if They would have se card slot ;)Actually good question and I think that there just Are not so Many phones that support that.
Even Samsun Galaxy s9 has A1 sd slot, not a2. Maybe next year?
haukionkannel - Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - link
There seems not not to be any phone at this moment...https://uk.pcmag.com/news-analysis/93567/sandisks-...