Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing
RockyC@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I feel like this is a product looking for a market. Why would anyone ever trust that much data to something so fragile and easy to lose?
4k Drones, upgradeable phones, DLSR cameras, Data per weight etc.
I own a 1tb ssd for my Steam Deck, literally 0 complaints, runs real fast, can’t feel any heat, never need to take it out other than if I’m factory resetting, it’s perfect! (though Valves next deck should just have a bigger ssd slot)
They’re not for long term storage, they’re for transient storage like photography
if you want long term CCTV setup properly you should be using ethernet connected security cameras and then transmitting it back to a central server with a hdd always recording. It’s much more reliable and way more cost effective, just requires you running an ethernet cable to where the camera is.
Yeah but the live feed and remote downloading sucks
with ethernet the live feed is perfectly fine, and there is no remote downloading, it’s all streamed over the ethernet to a central box which handles everything from there. You might need some decode/encode capabilities, but to my understanding a lot of cameras will run multiple hardware encodes straight from the sensor over to the network already. So you probably don’t need much.
It depends on the type of location, small remote locations might not even get their own local network
yeah and at that point you’re probably not using a microsd card i would figure. You have a small computer in there already, might as well throw in an SSD or something.
I guess if you needed the sheer capacity of 4TB you might use a micro sd, but you’re probably gambling more than you’re saving at that point.
I’d love them for my dash cam if they were affordable. My camera records in front and behind of my van in 4k, so that’s 90-100 gigs an hour. I leave it running as a surveillance camera when I’m parked, so just going to work and back in one day would use over a terabyte.
Why would you continuously record? Just record motion events and you won’t need a card that large at all, plus it will last a lot longer.
Busy parking lots always have motion.
Filming 8K in a raw format maybe?
It’s only 104 MB/s. Not enough for RAW video.
Also could be handy for smuggling banned movies/tv shows into authoritarian countries that block VPNs?
Though for the price these will retail for, would probably be easier to take more, smaller capacity cards…
Also useful for devices where you want more storage but the device only has an SD card slot such as phones, Nintendo switch, steam deck etc.
recapitated@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I use a 2tb (iirc) in my steam deck. Perfect application for that… Low rewrites, but totally expendable/replaceable data.