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Re:Only virgin type of olive oil reduces the risk of mortality by pdpi on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:20PM (#33325787)
For an SD card, “store something you care about” will very often mean photos or video. You have no choice but to trust the SD card for the time it takes you to get to your computer where you can dump the contents into something more reliable.

High end cameras usually have dual card slots to help deal with this, but even that won’t help when the failure mode is trying to write past the cards’ actual physical capacity, because the counterfeit advertise more storage than what’s actually there.

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Re:Only virgin type of olive oil reduces the risk of mortality by amluto on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @12:32PM (#33332852)
“Care about” could even just mean wanting the thing to provide at least, say, two nines of reliability. If my Raspberry Pi stops working after 2 years because the SD card failed, fine. If it stops working after 1 day because the SD card falsifies its capacity, I have zero nines and I’m not happy.
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