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  • Pork@III - Thursday, January 25, 2018 - link

    "For xkcd fans, this means that with microSD cards we can now reach 12.8 PB per gallon."
    Gallon beer or gallon fuel? :D
  • boeush - Thursday, January 25, 2018 - link

    Gallon of Benjamins
  • WinterCharm - Thursday, January 25, 2018 - link

    It's per gallon of beer (data over volume, not storage over fuel consumed)
  • shabby - Thursday, January 25, 2018 - link

    Who?
  • Lord of the Bored - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link

    Batman.
  • willis936 - Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - link

    Randal Monroe. You must be new here.

    https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
  • Pinn - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link

    Are UFS cards dead?
  • stay.noided - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link

    "These cards are aimed at Google Android-based smartphones"
    The (shrinking) handful of high-end handsets that have an SD card slot.

    Thanks Apple, by the way, for starting that dumpster fire.
  • shabby - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link

    The speed of sdcards is painfully slow compared to the ssd like speeds of internal memory, it's just that we need more than the 32/64gb sizes typically found in non apple phones.
  • Tams80 - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link

    Oh boy, do we have to have this discussion again? I thought this had been settled on here when the readership thoroughly rinsed AnandTech for a certain article.

    Look, the long and short of it is that while slow, the speed is good enough for many people.
  • mr_tawan - Monday, January 29, 2018 - link

    Not everyone has unlimited internet access all the time. Always streaming is not an option for many people. Content playback does not require high-speed transfer rate (although content creation does.).
  • damianrobertjones - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link

    So... I'll ignore this as I'd need one for a Surface Book. Oh well... shame that MARKETING dictates what's used for what. Sale lost. :)
  • serendip - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link

    I hope longevity isn't an issue, especially when used in smartphones where high temperatures are common. I've had Sandisk 128 GB cards fail just outside of warranty, it's a pain when one card holds so much data. A failed 512 GB card would be a nightmare both for data retrieval and for reloading on to another card.
  • PeachNCream - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link

    Oh gosh, I've had two Silicon Power microSD cards, a 64 and a 128GB fail in the past couple of years. I started buying Samsung EVO cards and I have a couple of 128GB in a phone and tablet plus a 32GB one in my Raspberry Pi. They've been okay so far, but none of them are more than 8 months old. The failures have taught me to be a lot more aware of making regular backups and storing data in more than one place. I haven't owned a Sandisk card larger than 32GB, but all of the ones I have laying around are still working very well. Maybe it's their larger capacity models that have problems.
  • serendip - Sunday, January 28, 2018 - link

    I've had 64 GB Sandisk and Kingston cards fail after two years and these were genuine units bought from reputable retailers. I've also had 128 GB Sandisk cards fail at just over a year. My 64 GB and 32 GB Samsung Evo cards have lasted 1.5 years, hopefully they'll last a bit longer.

    The best practice when using flash memory is to make frequent backups. These things aren't like HDDs, they're fickle and can fail when you least expect them to.
  • letmepicyou - Friday, February 2, 2018 - link

    Yeah, I have a 64gb Sandisk SD in my Canon T5i that was giving me the "constantly flashing read/write light" thing, indicating a potential problem with my SD card. Luckily, I was able to pull the 40+ gb off the card and get it onto my desktop to be burned to disk...then low-level formatted the card in the camera (to hopefully write around bad blocks)...lord knows tho if it's on it's last legs or not, tho...
  • Xajel - Saturday, January 27, 2018 - link

    Isn't Sandisk offers lifetime warranty ?
  • serendip - Sunday, January 28, 2018 - link

    Yes, they do, but I'm more concerned about the data on the card. Failed Sandisk cards go into read-only mode, so if the card is used for private data then it's better to forgo the warranty and burn the damn thing.
  • willis936 - Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - link

    Your mistake is ever trusting cheap flash storage. If it isn’t a disc with magnetic information on it or flash with a controller don’t expect any data to be on it tomorrow. Only use it for transferring of files. In the case of phones keep things you care about like in app data and photos synced to a cloud service. If you care about your data existing that is.
  • sna1970 - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link

    10MB/s write speed is very low for such capacity.

    no thanks.
  • benzosaurus - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link

    So... at 10 MB/s it takes 14.5 hours to fill the card. Ouch. Admittedly, that is the minimum write speed spec, but the real-world performance is probably still painful.
  • Roger Carvalho - Tuesday, April 17, 2018 - link

    I do not understand why they are saying it is so slow so from what I see compared to SanDisk Ultra microSDXC 400 GB makes up to 100mb read and write and Integral does 80mb but both have 10mb Minimum Sequential Write Speed

    https://www.anandtech.com/show/11793/western-digit...

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