cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39437325
ah finally, i can buy a micro sd card for 500 dollars, the same price as a gazillion terabyte harddrive, and get less reliability out of it.
SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing
Submitted 3 months ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://liliputing.com/sandisk-introduces-the-first-8tb-sd-and-4tb-microsd-cards/
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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
aesopjah@lemm.ee 3 months ago
yeah, but you can carry it with you at all times if your phone takes an SD card.
although, can they use one that large, or is there some restriction?
acceptable_humor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I think most phones have a 1tb cap … But nowadays most phones don’t have SD card slots so I don’t know where that has gone
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 3 months ago
I’d say it depends on the phone.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
this is true, my phone supports up to 400GB but it’s a bit older. Anything over about 512GB and you’re gonna run into issues writing and reading data reliably/fast enough. I’ve yet to find a way to transfer more than like 5Gb of files reliably to my android lmao.
It’s just a shit platform with shit software implementations, there’s not really much you can do about it.
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
All I want is higher resiliency SD cards. It must be a technology limitation with being unable to fit a good controller in there or something because I would gladly sacrifice speed and capacity for something reliable in a lot of my applications.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
What SD cards are you buying, and where are you using them?
I’ve been using a 256gb Sandisk high endurance SD card in my dashcam since 2021 (when I lost the first 2 I’d bought in 2018) and it’s still perfectly content writing a 4k + 1080p video for about 16 hours straight every single day. It wasn’t until last year I got a 512gb Samsung Pro Plus drive to split the load/act as a backup.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean, it exists, but it’s experimental and extremely expensive
Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Sigh…
A couple of years ago there were discussions on how stupid 20+tb harddrives were, mainly because they are so slow that the time it takes for files to transfer to a spinning disk was too long.
Let’s say you have a good 20tb drive and it can transfer files at 200MB/s. To fill that drive, it’ll take 1 day and 8 hours of continuous transfer. If it’s failing, and you’re trying to get as much off of it you’re screwed.
Now let’s think about that micro SD card. It’s 4tb, and let’s be gracious and give it a v90 speed class. That’s 90MB/s. Looking at a calculation for the time it takes to fill it up, we’re sitting at about 14h and 14 minutes. Worst part is that SD cards don’t have SMART, meaning you don’t know when they’ll die.
From my experience, even good SD cards die in my raspberry pi running pihole, and the cards runs idle almost all the time.
Also there’s this thing that the higher capacity a storage device gets, the more valueable the data stored on it becomes, not directly because it’s high capacity, but because it’s more trusted by the user.
Guys, gals and anyone in between, please get a proper storage solution, something that won’t fail spontaneously. If you need that kind of capacity, go for a Nas with spare drives, or at least get an ssd.
/end rant
AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 3 months ago
Not all use-cases require a high speed:capacity ratio.
I mean, I have an 18TB USB hard drive, which sustains transfer at about 50MB/sec in practice. It is nearly full, and its level of performance has never a show-stopping problem.
It’s hard to imagine a use case where a NAS would be a viable alternative to an SD card.
Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I’ve had a usage tier for storage that looks like this
Temporary storage
- SD cards - unreliable storage you use temporarily to store pictures and videos before inevitably moving them to a more reliable and permanent solution.
- USB drives (hdd ssd etc) - used for when you you want to move files faster or more conveniently than over a Lan.
Permanent storage
- Nas, internal drives, tape drives, etc - for when you want to store a lot of data with configurations that allow you to use redundancy.
The issue with super high capacity SD cards for me is that they’re still fragile and prone to failure. When you allow someone to store that much data, it’ll be used as a more permanent medium, and since it has a lot of storage capacity you end up with a bigger data loss when it dies. Imo having 30 128gb SD cards would be better because if one dies or breaks, you lose 128gb and not 4tb.
Tldr I think 4tb micro sd cards are stupid.
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is obviously not for large scale storage. But for stuff like cameras, which uses ever larger files for raw images
Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I totally get that… Here’s the thing though, at least in Norway a 1tb micro sd card costs 2200kr (~$203). If we extrapolate the price for a 4tb one, that’ll be 8800kr(~$813). If you or a company has the kind of money to spend almost a grand on a storage device, doesn’t that mean that the footage/photos are pretty valuable? If you had the kind of money/were going to record super valuable footage, wouldn’t you work hard to use cameras/recording systems that were capable of recording to redundant drives?
What I don’t get is what market section this product would even fit in. It’s too expensive for regular consumers, and also has terrible value. It’s not good enough for professional settings because it has no drive monitoring, nor does it have redundancy. It isn’t fast enough for the kind of footage that would require that kind of space(unless you’re recording a month long realtime video).
Also imagine how horrible the transfer speeds would be for individual photos when the os has to initiate a file transfer. If we say each photo is 20mb, that’s almost 200k photos. Yikes…
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
The raspberry pi is about the worst case scenario for SD cards. It may be idle, but an operating system is still making constant reads and writes, which absolutely eat through an SD card
CerineArkweaver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Pretzilla@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve had better luck with pro extreme cards made for dash cams, etc.
RockyC@lemm.ee 3 months ago
And after you spend 14 hours filling it with data, it falls out of your shirt pocket when you lean over to tie your shoe, gets caught by a gust of wind, and is gone forever.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Let’s say you have a good 20tb drive and it can transfer files at 200MB/s. To fill that drive, it’ll take 1 day and 8 hours of continuous transfer. If it’s failing, and you’re trying to get as much off of it you’re screwed.
this is kind of why we have RAID, but arguably, you should literally just not be using RAID as a backup. Failing drives should be prepped for in advance, rather than dealt with in real time at the 20+TB scale.
The primary advantage to such dense HDDs is price, and power efficiency.
Also there’s this thing that the higher capacity a storage device gets, the more valueable the data stored on it becomes, not directly because it’s high capacity, but because it’s more trusted by the user.
also im not sure i agree with the phrasing here, the drive does become “more important” but that’s because it stores more data, there is literally more for you to lose in the event it gets destroyed. You should trust nothing ever, yourself included.
rdri@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Worst part is that SD cards don’t have SMART, meaning you don’t know when they’ll die.
I mean, SMART doesn’t help much with knowing about HDDs’ death either. It’s more often they don’t show up at all, so you can’t even check SMART.
Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
It’s not about the death. It’s about if it’s going to die. I’ve seen smart errors weeks before a hdd died which gave me time to back that data up.
venoft@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No one is using SD cards for data storage, I hope.
RHSJack@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean, it’s where I keep all of my important tax documents in pdf and my old family videos. It’s plugged in this here chromebook. Haven’t needed to take it out since I got the thing during a sale for $160. The chromebook that is. I don’t remember what 16Gb cost back then.
littlecolt@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Where do USB “thumb drives” land here? Unreliable as long term storage like SD’s?
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I paid $100 for a massive 1TB hard drive when they first came out years ago. Thought a TB was essentially unlimited and wasn’t sure if it could ever be used.
What a crazy advancement to get to 8TB the size of your pinky nail.
fartnuggetsupreme@startrek.website 3 months ago
I paid like $150 for a 1GB hard drive on my Toshiba Tecra 510CDT back in the 90s. The guys at the computer store weren’t sure if it would even work.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Tecra was the high end model line and “CDT” in that model name means it had an active matrix LCD. You were already living the life of mobile luxury over most folks. Adding that 1GB HDD was rubbing it in our faces at that point. :)
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 3 months ago
You’re only getting 4 TB the size of your pinky nail. 8TB is the size of your thumbnail. Most people can’t be arsed to read the article, but you couldn’t even read the headline?
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
1TB may have seemed unlimited back then, but now with 8TB, if an uncompressed Blu-Ray is around 50GB, that can fit 160 Blu-Ray movies. Now, 160 movies may seem like a lot, and it is, but think of how many movies there have been overall over time.
You can never have enough storage.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Our first family PC had a 1,3 gigabyte drive. That had Win ‘95 on it, productivity apps, bunch of games, etc. This was a time when you could actually still run games off CD-ROM’s without needing installs.
These days, my phone has over 200 times the memory. It’s still amazing to me.
Same thing with SD cards. When I started with digital photography, a 32 MB card was big. My current camera takes images that are too large to fit on it! Early cameras even had floppy disk storage, if you can imagine…
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
I think our first family PC had 40MB of storage, and we loaded optical discs into a caddy before inserting them. That was in the late 80s.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 3 months ago
The only things that I can fill it up with are video games and video recordings. Hoarding downloaded files can also build up over time.
Visstix@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I am slightly confused why they use UHS-I instead of UHS-II (or even UHS-III) for such a big capacity. Seems like people needing so much capacity probably write a lot of data in a short time. UHS-II is 3 times quicker.
kn33@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Could be a trade-off issue. They can get capacity or speed but not both yet.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Or it’s cost-prohibitive ATM. As in, they could get both, but you’d pay a ton for it.
kytta@feddit.org 3 months ago
I can imagine this being useful for cases where you write a lot of data over a longer time period. Think CCTV (with low-medium resolution). You can keep a sizeable archive locally and never have to swap cards
Visstix@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh yeah cctv could be a good option indeed.
catloaf@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I assume larger capacity means longer endurance, too, since you’re not constantly rewriting the same cells.
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
This is the kind of discussion i’m here for. Thanks everyone! I didn’t know SD and micro SD cards where this unreliable but i always use them for short term stuff or content that is backed up somewhere else so i think i’m good.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
They aren’t that unreliable FWIW. Obviously, it should not be your only copy of media, but I have microSD cards that are still readable with data intact even 10, 11, or more years later.
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I feel it’s worth mentioning the application of them also factors into their longevity.
Good quality SD card holding some documents and random files? Yeah probably 10+ years. Good quality SD card being used in a dashcam, constant writes? I’m replacing my good SD card after about ~2 years of service because its showing signs of failure.
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
and both are described as SDUC UHS-I cards that are “built for tomorrow’s smartphones, gaming devices, drones, cameras, and laptops.”
Gaming devices: ✅️
Drones: ✅️ Cameras: ✅️ Smartphones: ❌️Basically every current flagship phone, and you know that’s what they mean, has done away with expandable memory…
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Which is utter bullshit. Especially since a lot of lower end phones have the option for dual sim or one sim and sd. There is literally no reason for flagships to not have that and make file transfering easier.
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Or a headphone jack, yes, a large number of people have wireless earbuds…but the audio quality off them isn’t amazing, and goddammit I wanna plug my really nice headphones in, or connect to a stereo without needing to use a Bluetooth dongle or…or…fuck…idk…just stupid. The big players saw apple cutting all that away(barring expandable memory, they never had that as far as I know) and said fuck what people want, apple can dictate what their customers want, and we want to too! And then getting a device with enough on-board storage is hundreds of extra capitalism tokens. It’s a fuckin mess…
Godnroc@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But then how will they upcharge you for additional storage or push you to their monthly cloud storage solution?
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I still have an S9 with notification LED and expandable storage. I recently upgraded the SD card to 512gb.
I live in fear of this phone dying, and me having to get something disappointing to replace it.
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
performs secret S9 handshake
Mine’s in a drawer with the battery removed. If I need a backup phone it’s always there. I upgraded about a year and a half ago to the S20FE as it was the most recent with expandable memory. I don’t hate it, but it’s certainly no where near as good for it’s time as the S9 was. My major gripe? The ringtone is so quiet that I often can’t hear it from my pocket in a silent room. Which is absolutely ridiculous as the speaker’s decently loud. The only way to make notification volume louder is to put a custom ROM on it. I’m perfectly happy to do that, just need to hold off until November when warranty ends, just in case something happens that isn’t my fault.
fartnuggetsupreme@startrek.website 3 months ago
LG V60 is newer and has an SD slot. That was my last phone and I miss it so much. Next contenders are Motorola G Stylus or bite the bullet and get an Xperia 1 V or VI
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 months ago
SDUC supports up to one hundred and twenty eight Terabytes O.o
Who in the world requires so much Storage on a tiny SD card?!
Aztechnology@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Def means my next phone I’m buying I make sure has a micro SD slot…
I love emulation on my phone as a hobby and his is hitting the sweet spot where by the time I need to upgrade again in a few years everything up through PS2 generation should be full speed even on mid tier phones that typically still offer micro SD
And 8 tb of micro SD is enough space to carry literally entire romsets for every system I like besides PS2/GameCube which is fine.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just need to set them up in a raid configuration for redundancy.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Didn’t we only just start getting 2TB microSD?
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 3 months ago
At this size you could carry your backup with you all the time or store it in your car encrypted.
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?
MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Awesome,
but I wonder if we’ll ever get better read and write counts on SD cards. It feels like the size is getting larger than the amount of possible writes to the device, making it kind of moot.
mlg@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The mockup image is kinda misleading (article admits its crappy lol).
afaik there aren’t any current microSD cards 1TB+ that have a u3 or even u1 speed because the increase in storage size comes at the cost of speed.
The development is definitely cool, but the physical size of a microSD is probably very challenging to design around without sacrificing something.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wasn’t sandisk particularly unreliable or am I mistaken with the brand? I remember slme problem with SDs failing prematurely
Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What would anybody even use 4 TB SD card for? Storing a shit-ton of pirated movies that you can watch on your phone? Aside from that I have no idea. 256 gigs is probably more than enough for anything a normal user would do on a phone.
Eiri@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Huh. I can see drones, action cameras and spy cameras being able to store lots of super high quality footage with this. Like, so much footage it lasts longer than the battery.
It’s niche, but I can’t see the use case.
IceHouse@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
When I started my career I used to have to manage tape backups for the company I worked for using LTO tapes that stored a huge 100 GB lol
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Why would someone wanting to store huge amounts of data put it on a storage device that is the most fragile/short lived?
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 months ago
short term storage of uncompressed high resolution data
Krzd@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t think microSD has the write speed for that, might be more useful for HD surveillance cameras
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah pictures and videos is all I can think of. I am no photophile but I assume some small digital camera benefits from storage of the micro variety. Has me thinking of the 2015 movie Victoria, 140m straight, one shot, no cuts, and actually a good movie, pretty amazing stuff.
Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Games, the easiest way to expand the storage on a Steam Deck is a micro sd card.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 months ago
SD card is limited to 100MB/s iirc.
It may be simplest, but it’s far from ideal.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Why would anyone need a 24TB HDD?
Because in the time we have gone from 4GB SD cards to 4TB cards, movies have gone from being 700MB to 70Gb, and games from coming on a few cds or dvds to requiring a mountain of them - Baldurs Gate 1 came on 5 CDs, BG3 would require around 200 of them.
moody@lemmings.world 3 months ago
The original Baldur’s Gate came on a single CD and had full install size of under 600MB. It was also possible to do a partial install and to load files off the CD at runtime.
shatteredsword@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Steam deck
cyberfae@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Right, the 1Tb of internal storage and the 1Tb SD card is still really cramped if you play a lot of games
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Video Cameras
BassTurd@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My GoPro can record 4k@30fps. A 20-25min video is 5+gb. The newer GoPros will do 8k@60fps i believe, maybe only 30fps. That will take up a lot more space.
The cards have to be the higher speed cards to be able to record those resolutions, but if I were a person that recorded a lot of stuff, having a card that large would be nice for a day long session.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I bought a 1TB SD card for my go pro/drone the other day. In theory it’s good for 16 hours of recording non stop.
I also have both a 512gb and a 256gb sd card for my dash cam, I’d really like to get a compatible 1TB card, but 4TB would be even nicer. Maybe I’d be able to go a month without offloading the card.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sneakernet. There’s places that don’t have access to get l good Internet and relatively inexpensive storage like this allows them to buy and trade media and consume it on inexpensive devices like a cellphone.
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
People doing production on their MacBooks might be a target per the small form factor.
SeekPie@lemm.ee 3 months ago
They’re awesome for modding iPods, though my music library’s probably less than 1 gb.
dunyol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Flash modding iPods is a cool use case for larger-capacity SD cards. However, the limiting factors seem to be the database file for the songs on the device and the RAM available.
At a certain point you get diminishing returns on the card capacity as you couldn’t fill up the card with songs and have them all be indexed without the iPod crashing. In these situations, one can be fine staying at 128 or 256 GB.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 months ago
Unmodded low-end steam deck.
Security camera run time.
DSLR for events.