No, I am pretty sure it's because those comments were generated by chatGPT, and just spamming. Like all the replies it gave were just repeating the comments, except long winded. And to think some people actually replied to it, hilarious.
Makes sense, I replied somewhat useful content to that OP on why Samsung smartphones are no more innovating by highlighting Apple, unfortunate that it's gone.
The consistency with which manufacturers release MicroSD cards with larger capacities than their full-sized counterparts puzzles me. Why is there any development of full-sized SD cards anymore if the MicroSD cards have higher capacities? Their entire full-sized SD card line-up might as well be MicroSD cards with permanently attached full-size adapters.
Mostly because most things (mainly small GoPro-style cameras, dashcams and portable consoles) still using SD and needing space use the microSD form factor.
Most other things (larger cameras, basically) have moved to or are moving to CFExpress instead
That doesn’t shed any light into why a form factor with 9 times the volume only gets releases with half the capacity. The full-sized SD cards max out at 256GB, but the MicroSD cards go up to 512GB.
In the case of Micron, they’ve gotten MicroSD cards to 1.5TB and Kioxia has demoed 2TB MicroSD cards. They literally could have done this for full-sized SD cards when they had 512GB MicroSD cards out in the market.
No they dont. SD cards are available at 1TB capacities - the same as MicroSDXC. And for those that need speed and have SD Express support a 512GB models offer nearly 1GB/s speeds: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=sm_sdhc&xf=15024_stan...
The super simplified version is that devices that still use full-size SD cards don't use that much storage. Full-size SD card average capacity per sold card is much lower than microsd. It's an afterthought for manufacturers these days.
It’s only in the picture. Further down in the same page, no full-sized variant of the 512GB capacity is listed. It only goes up to 256GB same as stated by this article.
The irony of this is, none of the Samsung so called "Flagship" phones have an SD slot. I use a budget phone and it has a memory card slot and I bought this for discount at $42 launch price, 512GB, and meanwhile the uber Ultra editions and Notes and etc are rotting away. Once this device is deemed irrelevant or gets damaged, I can safely move the data without worry of BS backups into cloud etc.
Also my LG V30 ESS Sabre powered DAP will also get this new Memory card once BF sales hit. Same for my iPod Video with SD adapter.
I find it extremely stupid that none of the OEMs except Sony are making ARM processor Flagship phones with SD Slots. To make things worse, Android's Scoped Storage disaster continues to wreck havoc onto the Filesystem that user can control in Performance and Productivity.
Its very nice to be able to relocate a SD card between phones to move data without pushing 100+GB of data upstream and its comical that, yes, if you want to do that sort of thing or have any kinda utility in your phone, you have to buy a budget model. Same goes for removable batteries and headphone jacks. You can buy a cheap phone today with all that stuff, but those things are omitted at the high end which makes the most expensive phones in some ways the least functional handsets out there.
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ballsystemlord - Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - link
They nuked the comments section?Threska - Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - link
Previous comments about why someone didn't like Samsung. Irrelevant to the article itself.meacupla - Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - link
No, I am pretty sure it's because those comments were generated by chatGPT, and just spamming. Like all the replies it gave were just repeating the comments, except long winded.And to think some people actually replied to it, hilarious.
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - link
"No, I am pretty sure it's because those comments were generated by chatGPT, and just spamming."Bingo. Just a spammer that was purged.
All of the comments were in reply to their original comment, so all of those responses became unanchored when the parent comment was deleted.
ballsystemlord - Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - link
So an AI knows more about to to speak your mind than you do? How are we supposed to resolve anything in our time if we cannot communicate without AIs?Silver5urfer - Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - link
Makes sense, I replied somewhat useful content to that OP on why Samsung smartphones are no more innovating by highlighting Apple, unfortunate that it's gone.LiKenun - Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - link
The consistency with which manufacturers release MicroSD cards with larger capacities than their full-sized counterparts puzzles me. Why is there any development of full-sized SD cards anymore if the MicroSD cards have higher capacities? Their entire full-sized SD card line-up might as well be MicroSD cards with permanently attached full-size adapters.ZeDestructor - Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - link
Mostly because most things (mainly small GoPro-style cameras, dashcams and portable consoles) still using SD and needing space use the microSD form factor.Most other things (larger cameras, basically) have moved to or are moving to CFExpress instead
LiKenun - Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - link
That doesn’t shed any light into why a form factor with 9 times the volume only gets releases with half the capacity. The full-sized SD cards max out at 256GB, but the MicroSD cards go up to 512GB.In the case of Micron, they’ve gotten MicroSD cards to 1.5TB and Kioxia has demoed 2TB MicroSD cards. They literally could have done this for full-sized SD cards when they had 512GB MicroSD cards out in the market.
R7 - Friday, April 14, 2023 - link
No they dont. SD cards are available at 1TB capacities - the same as MicroSDXC. And for those that need speed and have SD Express support a 512GB models offer nearly 1GB/s speeds: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=sm_sdhc&xf=15024_stan...shadowjk - Saturday, April 15, 2023 - link
The super simplified version is that devices that still use full-size SD cards don't use that much storage. Full-size SD card average capacity per sold card is much lower than microsd. It's an afterthought for manufacturers these days.dubyadubya - Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - link
Looks like Samsung has a 512GB SD. Just click on the link to Samsung and have a look.https://news.samsung.com/us/samsung-announces-impr...
LiKenun - Thursday, April 13, 2023 - link
It’s only in the picture. Further down in the same page, no full-sized variant of the 512GB capacity is listed. It only goes up to 256GB same as stated by this article.QuietOC - Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - link
It would be nice if the SD Association would standardize these actual faster UHS I speeds instead of creating standards that no one implements.R7 - Friday, April 14, 2023 - link
Yep. Most devices are limited to UHS-I even tho users can buy UHS-II or now SD Express cards.Silver5urfer - Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - link
The irony of this is, none of the Samsung so called "Flagship" phones have an SD slot. I use a budget phone and it has a memory card slot and I bought this for discount at $42 launch price, 512GB, and meanwhile the uber Ultra editions and Notes and etc are rotting away. Once this device is deemed irrelevant or gets damaged, I can safely move the data without worry of BS backups into cloud etc.Also my LG V30 ESS Sabre powered DAP will also get this new Memory card once BF sales hit. Same for my iPod Video with SD adapter.
I find it extremely stupid that none of the OEMs except Sony are making ARM processor Flagship phones with SD Slots. To make things worse, Android's Scoped Storage disaster continues to wreck havoc onto the Filesystem that user can control in Performance and Productivity.
PeachNCream - Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - link
Its very nice to be able to relocate a SD card between phones to move data without pushing 100+GB of data upstream and its comical that, yes, if you want to do that sort of thing or have any kinda utility in your phone, you have to buy a budget model. Same goes for removable batteries and headphone jacks. You can buy a cheap phone today with all that stuff, but those things are omitted at the high end which makes the most expensive phones in some ways the least functional handsets out there.Threska - Thursday, April 13, 2023 - link
Or use a USB cable and a computer.PeachNCream - Thursday, April 13, 2023 - link
Not always an option if your phone is deceased.R7 - Friday, April 14, 2023 - link
Still slow even at 10-20Gbps speeds when talking about moving hundreds of gigabytes of data. Especially if that data is small files.mode_13h - Friday, April 14, 2023 - link
So, what about data retention? How long can one of these "Pro Plus" models sit in a drawer, before you lose your photos and videos that were on it?R7 - Friday, April 14, 2023 - link
Still slower than Sandisk Extreme Pro that does 200/140.