[Discuss] SD Cards, cheap and here for a while?

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 08:46:55PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> On 08/23/2016 08:27 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> > Poking around online I noticed sd cards are large and inexpensive.  This plus it's omnipresence seems compelling.  Slide one into the side of my laptop and local storage triples.
> > 
> > Safe bet to buy a few of these?
> 
> I would suggest you be religious about your backups: consider them a
> REdistribution medium--from you back to you, not as a storage medium. I have
> had cards die on me multiple times over the years, including a 32GB Samsung
> microsd card within the last year. Maybe full-sized SD cards are better, but
> I am skeptical.


I agree with all of this. I have a 128GB microSD card for music
storage in my tiny little MP3 player - but if it goes, I will
buy another and merely be sad about the amount of time it takes
to select the music to put on it.

-dsr-