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This works poorly when you buy something like an SD card, store something you care about on it, and then try to read it back off the card later.
by amluto 4y ago
This works poorly when you buy something like an SD card, store something you care about on it, and then try to read it back off the card later.
- selcuka 4y agoNot to defend counterfeits products, but I wouldn't trust even the best SD card on earth to store something I care about.
- pdpi 4y agoFor an SD card, “store something you care about” will very often mean photos or video. You have no choice but to trust the SD card for the time it takes you to get to your computer where you can dump the contents into something more reliable. High end cameras usually have dual card slots to help deal with this, but even that won’t help when the failure mode is trying to write past the cards’ actual physical capacity, because the counterfeit advertise more storage than what’s actually there.
- amluto 4y ago“Care about” could even just mean wanting the thing to provide at least, say, two nines of reliability. If my Raspberry Pi stops working after 2 years because the SD card failed, fine. If it stops working after 1 day because the SD card falsifies its capacity, I have zero nines and I’m not happy.
- cgriswald 4y agoIt just generally works poorly without large amounts of luck. Lots of counterfeit or garbage goods will work okay at first but wear out quickly or just be dangerous to operate due to cheap parts.