Two years in the making

  • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    What can even use these things? I know it’s a chicken and egg problem, but c’mon. Never mind they’re still slow AF (30MB/s claimed write speeds, which probably won’t hold up under sustained loads), so it’ll take forever to fill them.

    Of course, my first computer with a disk drive was a Commodore 64 in the 1980s which took nearly five full minutes to read a 174KB floppy. - so WTF am I whining about?

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com
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      6 days ago

      Hopefully these are more reliable than the SD cards I’ve used lol. I can’t imagine losing such an expensive card and 8TB of data after only owning it for a couple months lol. Of course at SD card speeds you wouldn’t be able to fill it in just a couple months…

    • Not a newt@piefed.ca
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      If them having more capacity means they’ll have a better lifetime under constant writes (because the same sector gets overwritten less often), then they’ll be good for dashcams and local storage for security cameras.

    • cenzorrll@piefed.ca
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      The article states minimum speeds of 30 MB/s maximum at 104 MB/s. Which is better, but not by much.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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        It’s ridiculous that they are limiting such an expensive card to UHS-I. They should use SD Express. That adds a second row of pins for PCIe while still being backwards compatible with UHS-I.