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Man, I'd love to work in that team for a year. I've had so many SD cards fail on me (most recently a 1TB SanDisk Extreme which was used in my Steam Deck) and it
by Sakos 2y ago
Man, I'd love to work in that team for a year. I've had so many SD cards fail on me (most recently a 1TB SanDisk Extreme which was used in my Steam Deck) and it feels like most of them are junk.
- robotnikman 2y agoIIRC the denser the memory on the cards, the more likely problems are to arise. I forget the specifics but it has to do with the physics involving electronics on such a small scale. That's why industrial grade cards tend to be in much smaller capacities, but they are much longer lasting.
- Sakos 2y agoI wish we'd move away from microSD cards to a larger format if it meant more durable storage. I hate these things. I just end up keeping them in an SDcard adapter when they're not in active use so I don't lose them. USB sticks seem to have the same issue with durability though. I've also had multiple of those fail on me. I'm currently eyeing those SSD USB sticks and I wonder how much more durable they might be.
- robotnikman 2y agoThe regular SD card form factor seems great when it comes to more durable storage, but obviously would not be ideal for smaller devices. I've heard that many USB sticks use lower quality binned chips so that may be why they usually fail more often despite their size, but this is just anecdotal from what I've heard.
- chasil 2y agoI read elsewhere here that if you fdisk/gdisk a partition that is one third of the drive and limit yourself to that space, then the drive will exhibit the reliability of SLC media, and last far longer than rated.