I hope someone make something tiny but as good as a SSD in future, SD cards are absolute shit.
For me it doesn’t even have to be as tiny as SD card, even a credit card sized memory is good
SSDs are less reliable than an HDD if we speak about lifespan (which is still pretty high) but it’s not really a problem for the avarage joe plus they got better in the years and can’t be recovered if they break.
SD cards are waay less reliable than a SSD and it’s a concern for me
SD cards just die out quickly because people don’t treat them the same as their internal drive. When you’re replacing the main drive to your most important machine do you go to aliexpress and sort by price low to high? Or do you do some research first and see if it’s a well rated drive?
SD cards are tiny so getting one in high capacities, speeds, and high write cycles is a lot harder without paying a lot more money. The SD cards I have in my dashcam have been recording 4k + 1080p video almost continuously for 5+ years and they’re still going strong. But I also bought drives rated for that kind of use.
Oh yeah I just found it amusing that the old “unreliable” thing is now being used as a gauge for “reliable enough”
I luckily have no experience with either breaking for me over 15ish years of active computer usage, so I have no fears or trust issues there yet. I also use cloud saves on steam for everything and I’m lucky enough to live in an area with good internet, so worst case I play a different game while my big game is downloading again after I broke something.
My experience with playing games off an SD card in Steam Deck was… lackluster, shall we say (performance-wise).
I share your feelings about SD cards.
I’ve had issues with installing games being slow, but I don’t think I’ve ever noticed any difference in performance during actual gameplay.
I hope someone make something tiny but as good as a SSD in future, SD cards are absolute shit. For me it doesn’t even have to be as tiny as SD card, even a credit card sized memory is good
Uh that already exists, MicroSD Express. It’s essentially a PCIe Gen 3 x1 NVMe SSD under the hood
Are they as reliable as an SSD? If not then the problem is still there
I remember people saying that about SSDs vs HDDs, SSDs were the unreliable newfangled junk. Am I old?
SSDs are less reliable than an HDD if we speak about lifespan (which is still pretty high) but it’s not really a problem for the avarage joe plus they got better in the years and can’t be recovered if they break. SD cards are waay less reliable than a SSD and it’s a concern for me
Depends on what metric you look at.
SSDs also have essentially no wear from reading.
SD cards just die out quickly because people don’t treat them the same as their internal drive. When you’re replacing the main drive to your most important machine do you go to aliexpress and sort by price low to high? Or do you do some research first and see if it’s a well rated drive?
SD cards are tiny so getting one in high capacities, speeds, and high write cycles is a lot harder without paying a lot more money. The SD cards I have in my dashcam have been recording 4k + 1080p video almost continuously for 5+ years and they’re still going strong. But I also bought drives rated for that kind of use.
This is exactly it. If you buy a €20 SSD you’ll be disappointed as well.
Oh yeah I just found it amusing that the old “unreliable” thing is now being used as a gauge for “reliable enough”
I luckily have no experience with either breaking for me over 15ish years of active computer usage, so I have no fears or trust issues there yet. I also use cloud saves on steam for everything and I’m lucky enough to live in an area with good internet, so worst case I play a different game while my big game is downloading again after I broke something.
I’ve had several die on me in Raspberri pi’s after prolonged use.
There’s already small NVMe drives the size of, say, four SD cards with up to 1-2 TB capacity. So it shouldn’t be long I reckon.
Crazy, i hope that companies start to adopt them instead of SD cards soon
Xbox series s/x has ssds like this but they’re pretty expensive. Not sure if the price is high because of the tech, the specs or the licensing