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.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

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

    • mikaey00@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

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

  • definitlyitsbutter@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months 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…

  • alias4007@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Do you have any temperature controls for this experiment? Seems that all that gear is heating the sdcards under test. It would be interesting to see their performance under temperature extremes, or at least under typical ambient operating temperatures.

  • Fast-String486@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I would put a fan on those card readers though to remove them as a point of failure👀… I’ve needed to backup 7 micro sd cards at a time for some shoots using a USB hub and damm do the readers get hot when copying a ton of stuff

  • bicebird@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months 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,

  • Professional-Fee2235@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Which header you’re using? I had bad luck with readers being pretty wonky.

    Would be interested in results, my SBC cluster died on a bunch of samsung EVO cards turning read-only.

    Or rather PRETENDING to be read-write by ignoring writes, which made very funny debugging session where the OS started crashing the moment write cache in RAM ran out and it tried to read the data it wrote…

  • AJsRaceway@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That’s awesome. I can’t wait to see the results. That’s quite a collection of card readers, also. It will be interesting to see if they all survive, too.