So I took it upon myself to answer the question of “what are the best and cheapest microSD cards out there?” This includes evaluating whether they’re fake flash, how well they perform, and how many read/write cycles they can endure before they start failing. So far I’ve tested four to the point of failure, I have 37 being tested right now, and I have 21 more waiting to be tested.

Sorry for the horrendous cable management — I have cable ties on order.

  • Pvt-Snafu@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    That actually looks cool. Are you looking to make sort of an article or blog post and publish the results?

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      1 year ago

      I’m actually working on a script for a YouTube video right now. Might also make a blog post about it, I dunno.

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    1 year ago

    “Stress testing micro SD cards” is just a funny way of saying "Prematurely burning up a bunch of SD cards.

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    1 year ago

    As co-workers have reminded me many times, 127 device per bus limit is not intended as a challenge.

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    Have fun. Where I see this beating out other options for low access / possibly cold storage is you could make it incredibly dense in terms of tb/kg and tb/cm3. It would make a fun challenge and be damn near impossible to maintain 🤣

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    1 year ago

    What is the combined max writing speed to all the cards, does the usb max out? At what numbers? And what is the model of the hub?

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    1 year ago

    Not sure SD’s are competitive for performance / durability but it’d be interesting to see (presumably) how much lower the power consumption is, especially if you can disable / enable the usb port they’re connected to on demand for something like media storage where an extra second or so startup time isn’t an issue,

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    1 year ago

    Boi that is great! Do you publish your data/experiences somwhere? And also did you throw some of the high/ultra endurance models in the mix (normally for video surveillance and stuff)? I had so many normal micro SDs fail for i dont trust them anymore and rather grab one of these…