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There are extremely tiny and cheap micro sd card USB adapters, basically just the size of the card. Stay away from generic ones though. Lexar and SanDisk make g

There are extremely tiny and cheap micro sd card USB adapters, basically just the size of the card. Stay away from generic ones though. Lexar and SanDisk make good USB 3 compatible ones, and are quite reliable. Don't get Kingston, like this one, they seem to break leaving half the thing inside the USB port way too often in my experience : https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1XUlsJVXXXXcGXpXXq6xXFXXXG/Kingston-Micro-SD-Card-Reader-microSD-microSDHC-microSDXC-Card-USB-2-0-Adapter-FCR-MRG2.jpg https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1XUlsJVXXXXcGXpXXq6xXFXXXG/Kin...

reaperducer 8y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. But my intent was to create a 1TB flash storage device from a bunch of old flash I have lying around.
- cbhl 8y ago
  If you don't care about reliability or read/write speeds, sure. But for just $218 USD you can have a brand new 1 TB USB 3.1 Portable SSD that does sequential reads/writes at 400 megabytes per second. Trying to write a terabyte at two or even ten megabytes per second would be excruciating.
  - reaperducer 8y ago
    Trying to write a terabyte at two or even ten megabytes per second would be excruciating. As noted above, this would be WORM But for just $218 USD I'd rather spend $218 on my family and re-use the flash I have lying around instead of dumping it in a landfill.
cptskippy 8y ago
My experience with SanDisk has been mediocre. I've multiple microSD card failures in GoPros and RaspberryPis. Their microSD to SD adapters are the absolute worst and their cards, an only theirs, will continuously dismount and remount every 30 seconds or so if left idle in my laptop. Sony has let me down as well, their cards have either poor or no wear leveling and will die in a matter of weeks when used in a GoPro. Every single one I bought has died inside of a year. The longest lived microSD card I currently have is from Lexar and I recently bought some Samsung cards to see how they'll do.
- mark-r 8y ago
  Lexar recently changed hands, so it will be interesting to see if their reliability remains good.
- Ultramanoid 8y ago
  My personal record is an 11 year old 1 GB Lexar that's even been thrown into the washing machine by mistake a couple times. Still in use. I find these things extremely resilient in general, no issues with SanDisk at all for me.
- psalminen 8y ago
  I refuse to buy SanDisk. Have had multiple microSD and USB flash drives from them that are permanently stuck as Read-Only. According to them, it is a common manufacturing error in their process.
- toyg 8y ago
  The better-known brands like Sandisk and Sony have a ton of counterfeit clones in circulation. Some of the problems you are experiencing might well be due to that. Lexar is a less-known brand, less likely to be used by counterfeiters.

reaperducer 8y ago

Thanks for the suggestion. But my intent was to create a 1TB flash storage device from a bunch of old flash I have lying around.

cbhl 8y ago
If you don't care about reliability or read/write speeds, sure. But for just $218 USD you can have a brand new 1 TB USB 3.1 Portable SSD that does sequential reads/writes at 400 megabytes per second. Trying to write a terabyte at two or even ten megabytes per second would be excruciating.
- reaperducer 8y ago
  Trying to write a terabyte at two or even ten megabytes per second would be excruciating. As noted above, this would be WORM But for just $218 USD I'd rather spend $218 on my family and re-use the flash I have lying around instead of dumping it in a landfill.

cptskippy 8y ago

My experience with SanDisk has been mediocre. I've multiple microSD card failures in GoPros and RaspberryPis. Their microSD to SD adapters are the absolute worst and their cards, an only theirs, will continuously dismount and remount every 30 seconds or so if left idle in my laptop. Sony has let me down as well, their cards have either poor or no wear leveling and will die in a matter of weeks when used in a GoPro. Every single one I bought has died inside of a year. The longest lived microSD card I currently have is from Lexar and I recently bought some Samsung cards to see how they'll do.

mark-r 8y ago
Lexar recently changed hands, so it will be interesting to see if their reliability remains good.
Ultramanoid 8y ago
My personal record is an 11 year old 1 GB Lexar that's even been thrown into the washing machine by mistake a couple times. Still in use. I find these things extremely resilient in general, no issues with SanDisk at all for me.
psalminen 8y ago
I refuse to buy SanDisk. Have had multiple microSD and USB flash drives from them that are permanently stuck as Read-Only. According to them, it is a common manufacturing error in their process.
toyg 8y ago
The better-known brands like Sandisk and Sony have a ton of counterfeit clones in circulation. Some of the problems you are experiencing might well be due to that. Lexar is a less-known brand, less likely to be used by counterfeiters.