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> you're going to get exactly what you paid for. And nearly always the cheap cards seem to fail due to firmware shortcomings rather than hardware faults. Ie
by londons_explore 2y ago
> you're going to get exactly what you paid for.
And nearly always the cheap cards seem to fail due to firmware shortcomings rather than hardware faults. Ie. the built in wear levelling and error recovery is bad.
Considering firmware is effectively free once written, the fact the cheap cards still don't have good firmware leads me to believe it might be deliberate market segmentation. Ie. "we need to make the cheap cards glitch and fail often, or nobody would buy our expensive cards".
If so, it really raises moral questions about how many peoples wedding pictures have been gobbled simply so some executive can get his christmas bonus...
- pdimitar 2y agoThese moral questions stand unsolved for decades, and many people are acutely aware of them. IMO it's time we start putting those executives in jail for it. But we all know it ain't ever happening.
- userbinator 2y agoI suspect the cheap cards are bad because of cheap flash, which ironically requires much stronger ECC and wear leveling to function at all.
- mschuster91 2y ago> And nearly always the cheap cards seem to fail due to firmware shortcomings rather than hardware faults. Ie. the built in wear levelling and error recovery is bad. Well, higher quality cards have better performing controllers that operate at higher speeds or have dedicated hardware offloads for stuff that a "cheaper" controller has to do in software.