Just been going through some Micro SD cards I had. Most had to go in the bin since they were too old and badly beaten (Good description, works for me too). The two I had left passed surface and capacity tests but are, of course, unbearably slow (10Mbs Write, 18 Read).
Ive done some research on the 3 different classes and also all the fakes out there (even the branded ones).
Since Im expecting my Steam Deck purchase email any day now, I was wondering if any of my nerdy friends had any good experiences on places that sell genuine M SD Cards?
Not me. I've bought some thumb drives recently for making Windows system backups and putting music on for my car (Bluetooth to my phone is a pain and there are a lot of dead spot areas in Florida). Haven't done much with SD cards lately. Oh, bought one for my digital underwater camera. Uhm... it works... that's all I can say. LOL
Dan JacksonOP
@Reply 4 years ago
Cheers. I've been watching videos on geeks doing tests on flash memory and it's shocking. The last one I saw was an 8TB portable SSD advertised at USB3.1. The firmware reported 8TB but the actual test showed the true capacity as just under 60GB. Any files larger than that got corrupted. Speed was also less than 1Mb/s and took several days to test all 60GB.
He then pulled it apart with a hammer (Flooded with hot glue) and found it was a card reader with a 60GB micro SD card!
I've been victim to these counterfeits in the past. I suppose if purchased from Amazon, can return if it fails the tests and keep trying.
Damn. Yeah, I've had my Windows backup images (which are usually around 100-150 GB) take anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours to copy to different flash drives, so there's definitely something to be said for quality drives. Thing is I really don't care. I do it once a quarter maybe, so it's not a big deal. Set it and forget it.
Dan JacksonOP
@Reply 4 years ago
Fair enough. For backups, I'd be inclined to use Hard Disks - less wear on the heads during writing. I'm running 4x6TB drives on a RAID1+0 plus cloud back up. Flash memory is best used for large applications like Windows OS and games due to masses of files and reads.
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