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Reminder that your phone’s SSD blows the pants off this microSD in reliability, speed, and thermal tolerance. That’s not cheap or directly comparable.
by gjsman-1000 2y ago
Reminder that your phone’s SSD blows the pants off this microSD in reliability, speed, and thermal tolerance. That’s not cheap or directly comparable.
- beoberha 2y agoCorrect. There’s a reason they don’t just solder an SD card inside the phone
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- geor9e 2y agoAndroid does manage SD Cards as storage expansion very well though. The OS is only ~4GB and will run off the fast UFS, primarily because it would crash if you were able to disconnect it, but it will pop up and offer to move app data, photos, and videos to the SD card at various points to help manage space. I love smartphones with SD card slots.
- Dylan16807 2y agoIf I'm vastly increasing the storage I should be able to get the same speed even with cheaper flash. The controller is a big factor but I already paid for the good controller in my phone. If a microSD is QLC we can knock off 25% of the capacity to pretend the phone version is TLC. And we can reserve an extra 10% for reliability. That still leaves a vast gulf in capability per dollar. Am I wrong to expect the combination of those factors to give me good reliability and speed? For temperature, a $110 1.5TB Sandisk Ultra card promises to operate up to 85°C. A phone should be well under that limit. Also real SSDs are a similar price to SD cards. I don't think there's any real justification for phone storage prices other than lack of competition that lets them get away with it.
- userbinator 2y agoeMMC is not really comparable to a standard PC SSD; in fact it's very close in protocol to SD.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoAnd then iCloud craps its pants when you actually want to access your photos (and videos are barely useable).