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They're affordable, but also not all that reliable. I can't even begin to count how many I've had fail on me over the years.
by Etheryte 3y ago
They're affordable, but also not all that reliable. I can't even begin to count how many I've had fail on me over the years.
- fbdab103 3y agoI was thinking similarly. Do I really want to rely upon 2TB being stored in a SD card? Numerous failures over the year, and only consider them for temporary storage. How long does it even take to fill the drive?
- pjerem 3y agoIt depends on what you store and your backup strategy. You rarely have 2TB of really precious data on a microSD. microSD are meant to easily store a local copy of your data, not to be a reliable long term storage. You can also use it to store useful but not unique data like games on a switch or a Steam deck. If the card fail, all you lose is the time to redownload everything. Anyway except if you do a lot of video, the really important data (the really personal data you’ll want to backup) is rarely in TBs. It’s mostly pictures and documents.
- NewsyHacker 3y agoI had a 1TB card fail on me, but that only meant that the card would no longer accept writes. I could still read everything off it. Since I was using the card to carry my entire music collection in FLAC on my phone, I was pretty OK with that. Eventually, when I wanted to update that copy of my music collection, I easily replaced the card under warranty.