2TB microSD card is on the way early next year

Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by prawn on Saturday December 23, 2023 @05:43PM (#38749035)

I was using one for filming a client job the other day, without a backup card. It cracked and bent in half and I thought I was going to have to entirely reshoot the location. Bent it back and put it in the laptop and got all the data fine. Never had one fail.

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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by LeafItAlone on Saturday December 23, 2023 @06:06PM (#38749209)

> It cracked and bent in half

You cracked and bent a microSD card? How did that happen?

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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by jbverschoor on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:10PM (#38754851)

Chewbacca

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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by 0xDEADFED5 on Saturday December 23, 2023 @06:00PM (#38749165)

If you've never had one fail you haven't used them enough. Raspberry Pi usage seem to be pretty efficient at sorting the good ones from the bad ones

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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by jbverschoor on Saturday December 23, 2023 @07:50PM (#38749919)

Exactly my experience. They work five until they don’t.

Not risking my data nor tribe in those things anymore even though I love that they’re small and cheap. Ideal for large media which doesn’t require too much bandwidth.

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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by jbverschoor on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:10PM (#38754849)

tribe=time

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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by phito on Saturday December 23, 2023 @06:16PM (#38749270)

I've been using RPIs since their first release and never had an SD card failure. Might just be luck though cause I know the problem is real and happens to many people.

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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by NewsyHacker on Saturday December 23, 2023 @07:02PM (#38749556)

It depends on the distro. What especially hammers SD cards on Linux, eventually rendering the card read-only, is logs being written to disk. A lot of distros for Raspberry Pi therefore now keep logs in RAM.

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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by forty on Sunday December 24, 2023 @03:11AM (#38752041)

This issue is true of any flash memory. See my sibling comment on using an USB stick to write data: I also destroyed a bunch with logs

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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by forty on Sunday December 24, 2023 @03:08AM (#38752026)

I destroyed many SD cards with the original Pi. I ended up putting the card read only with the hardware switch and use a USB stick for writing data. No issue with microSD cards with more recent Pis (or other SBC) however

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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by jimbobthrowawy on Sunday December 24, 2023 @01:30AM (#38751602)

I'm surprised there aren't adapters to connect two or more micro SD cards to one device and duplicate written data to both of them. I assume you couldn't do it with wiring alone, and would need a chip in there.

Even finding a microSD extension was tricky when I wanted to mess about with the hardware.

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