• RockyC@lemm.ee
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    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?

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      3 months ago

      I use a 2tb (iirc) in my steam deck. Perfect application for that… Low rewrites, but totally expendable/replaceable data.

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      3 months ago

      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)

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      3 months ago

      They’re not for long term storage, they’re for transient storage like photography, in particular stuff like surveillance cameras

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      3 months ago

      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.

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        3 months ago

        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.

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      3 months ago

      Filming 8K in a raw format maybe? (a lot of cameras only have an SD card slot, or only the sd card slot is fast enough to record raw at higher resolutions)

      You probably wouldn’t need to take it out of the camera either? so the form factor wouldn’t be major concern.

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        3 months ago

        Also could be handy for smuggling banned movies/tv shows into authoritarian countries that block or outlaw unauthorised VPNs?

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          3 months ago

          Though for the price these will retail for, would probably be easier to take more, smaller capacity cards…

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        3 months ago

        Also useful for devices where you want more storage but the device only has an SD card slot, or other slots are already occupied or sd card is just easier such as phones, Nintendo switch, steam deck, ultra light laptops, raspberry pi…