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exerceo
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It's 2022 and people still believe USB sticks and external card readers are a replacement for memory card slots.

They're not. SD cards have a standardized form factor and do not protrude from memory card slots, but external card readers and USB sticks do.

Just like smartphones, laptops are increasingly ditching the SD card slot or replacing it with microSD, which has less capacity, lower life expectancy and data retention span due to smaller memory transistors, worse handling, and no write-protection switch.

Not only should full-sized SD cards be brought back to laptops, but also brought to smartphones. There might soon be 2 TB SD cards, meaning not one second of worrying about running out of space for years. That would be wonderful.

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  • 5
    2y
    Who even makes full SD cards nowadays? At most it's a microSD in an adapter.
  • 0
    2y
    Minor aside, but you can get 1tb microSD cards already...
  • 1
    2y
    @iiii SanDisk, Transcend, Toshiba, Panasonic, to name a few.
  • 1
    2y
    @atheist Can they retain data for half a year without being powered on? And how often can those multi-layer cells (MLC) be rewritten?
  • 1
    2y
    Professional cameras seem to be moving to CFexpress anyway. That being said, (micro)SD cards will be useful for low performance applications for a long time still.
  • 1
    2y
    @electrineer "Low" is relative. High-grade SD cards like Panasonic Gold are claimed to be able to reach 200 MB/s. Even if their actual data rate is lower than claimed, it still is abundant.

    As a reference, smartphones typically record 2160p (4K) video at 6 MB/s (48 Mbit/s).
  • 3
    2y
    tbh i don't need the capacity and performance of full-size-SD in typical micro-SD use cases.

    where i DO need it is in my camera. which is why it has two SD slots.
  • 4
    2y
    @zlice any laptop - and i do mean any - that doesn't have at least one headphone jack will automatically be disqualified in my searches.
  • 0
    2y
    @exerceo There is a damned reason why minimum speed classifications like A1, V10 and Class 10 exist too. Please search it.

    It will be way better than "May be lower" if you know what's the lower boundary.
  • 1
    2y
    @melezorus34 Indeed. One can build higher-performance cards in the SD than the microSD form factor, though I never had trouble recording 2160p (4K) to microSD.
  • 0
    2y
    @melezorus34 my laptop has a headphone jack but i never use it, why do you insist on it that much?
  • 1
    2y
    @melezorus34 do you dream of a laptop that has sides full of headphone jacks?
  • 3
    2y
    @jonas-w he probably has wired headphones
  • 0
    2y
    @electrineer yes. Music for everybody but privately
  • 1
    2y
    @melezorus34 + it never runs out of battery charge! Not yet another device one has to take care of charging (and will become a brick once the non-replaceable battery expires).
  • 0
    2y
    Who the hell uses SD cards alone ?
    USB drives are sturdy and I believe faster

    Besides try and hook an external drive to a memcard slot
    @jonas-w right gentfick ?
  • 0
    2y
    @AvatarOfKaine If you carry a laptop, you need to remove USB sticks or risk bumping against something and breaking it and damaging the port.
  • 0
    2y
    @exerceo do you use SD cards for increasing the internal storage of your laptop or why is that a concern?
  • 0
    2y
    @exerceo why would I leave them plugged in lol
  • 0
    2y
    @electrineer Of course, since it is easy to transport between computers, and also for reading memory cards from cameras.

    MicroSD cards can fall down and are difficult to insert into a computer due to their small size, and lack the write protection switch.

    Obviously, that is still better than no memory card. If a camera only has internal storage and no memory card, data is lost if the camera stops working.
  • 0
    2y
    @exerceo gimme a task hard enough and i will lose the whole computer. That losing thing is subjective and can be prevented with a cd bag style sdcard bag.
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