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SD Cards are nothing like internal storage that typically use high performance ssds. They are much cheaper and also much much slower than ssds.
by ricw 10y ago
SD Cards are nothing like internal storage that typically use high performance ssds. They are much cheaper and also much much slower than ssds.
- falcolas 10y agoAnd yet much, MUCH faster than an upload to or download from a cloud service.
- Guillaume86 10y agoAnd a lot more energy efficient
- lostsock 10y agoAnd for a lot of what is stored on them, like music, photos and movies that speed is totally unnecessary. It's the same reason I still have both an SSD and HDD in my computer. I use the fast expensive storage for things that effect performance and the slower but much cheaper storage for my "bulk media" needs.
- falcolas 10y agoPhotos, imo, are a great example of where cloud storage falls apart. High quality photos take a lot of disk space and take forever to up- and download in their native formats. Once you overrun your local disk cache, you're SOL until those gigs of photos are moved. Not to mention the browsing problem; thumbing through thousands of thumbnails and hundreds of full sized photos in a session is impossible with cloud storage. There's a reason photographers buy multi-terabyte SANs and spend days backing those up online after a single shoot.
- shostack 10y agoWith the current gen of phones I'd say high res videos are the more painful use case. 4k video files are gigantic.