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SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Worst part is that SD cards don't have SMART, meaning you don't know when they'll die.

I mean, SMART doesn't help much with knowing about HDDs' death either. It's more often they don't show up at all, so you can't even check SMART.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not about the death. It's about if it's going to die. I've seen smart errors weeks before a hdd died which gave me time to back that data up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I see what you mean. It helps predict that, but not always. This is still a lottery, and the absence of SMART only makes it a little bit more of a lottery.