Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a MicroSD Card (2018)

Re:Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a MicroSD Card (2018) by jbob2000 on Monday August 19, 2019 @10:33AM (#20738073)

Sure. The ecoboost Ford mustang. If you put the engine from a Mustang GT in the Ecoboost mustang, the crankshaft will explode. You can totally mount the engine from the GT in the ecoboost, it's the same frame, but the rest of the car is not engineered to support that much horsepower.

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Re:Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a MicroSD Card (2018) by cr0sh on Monday August 19, 2019 @12:50PM (#20739388)

Not so much the crankshaft (which is inside the engine), but more the transmission and remaining driveline (driveshaft, differential, etc) become the new "weak points".

This assumes that the Ecoboost version isn't just a engine swap - it could be that Ford uses everything the same from transmission back, and just pops different engines and badges on. I don't know if this is true or not, though.

For instance, on their old Ranger pickup trucks (basically rebadged Mazdas), the rear axle on virtually all of them was way over-engineered vs the rest of the pickup:

https://www.therangerstation.com/stock-ranger-specifications...

While there were some differences between models, most of them used one of two sizes, and they just dropped a different engine and transmission in. In this case, depending on what you had, you might end up breaking other parts before the axle gives (the Ranger axles are a popular swap upgrade from the Dana 30 axle on Jeeps, due to it's robustness)..

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Re:Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a MicroSD Card (2018) by nicoburns on Monday August 19, 2019 @10:40AM (#20738135)

I think the parent meant specifically with SD cards. I've personally never had issues using higher capacity cards in devices that didn't officially support them...

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Re:Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a MicroSD Card (2018) by stevekemp2 on Monday August 19, 2019 @11:33AM (#20738651)

Back a few years I bought a large CF-card for a Canon 5D camera, which was just not recognized.

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Re:Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a MicroSD Card (2018) by jbob2000 on Monday August 19, 2019 @11:49AM (#20738802)

Ohhh my mistake, I thought they were looking for examples of this in other fields.

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Re:Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a MicroSD Card (2018) by rootusrootus on Monday August 19, 2019 @12:04PM (#20738943)

Presumably the crankshaft is in the engine, so it should be fine. The transmission, driveshaft, differential, and axles may not be up to the task, however. But it will be torque that breaks them, not horsepower.

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