Can I use microSD cards like this as de-facto laptop disk extension, perhaps to play games off of it?
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Can I use microSD cards like this as de-facto laptop disk extension, perhaps to play games off of it?
Heard modern microSDXC cards are pretty resilient / long-living. Only know back from microSDHC that those were pretty much dead after 2 years of continuous use in mp3 players.
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Julia :v_trans: :v_bi:replied to Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈ last edited by
@[email protected] make sure you're getting one from a reliable source- there's a million and one scams selling 8gb cards as something way larger, and they just ignore errors and overwrite previous data
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Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈreplied to Julia :v_trans: :v_bi: last edited by
@julia Yeah, I know about those. I'd never buy SD cards from Ali, only from places like Galaxus, Amazon, mindfactory or Alternate. Or, well, local shops like Mediamarkt or Saturn.
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Yuki ππ¨π¦replied to Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈ last edited by
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Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈreplied to Yuki ππ¨π¦ last edited by
@Yuki Laptop only got one slot, already populated with a 1TB drive. Upgrading to a 2TB would be quite pricey.
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tokudanreplied to Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈ last edited by
@Natanox I managed microSD cards in about 20 Raspberry Pis for ~7 years, though only the small 8/16/32 GB versions, but they were running 24/7. not a single microSD failed. I did ensure that discard was being used.
and the actual write load was somewhat low, basically only raspbian package updates, some minor syslog writes and the occasional cache write from a webbrowser.
And those were microSDs from around 2015/2016.So... I believe SDs/microSDs can last a long time, but it probably "depends".