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i hate this

@nyanotech really shows the massive difference in material cost when they have to meet the full V90 / U3 specs for sustained transfers. so much more fast flash required.

@nyanotech ugh that failure mode is the wooooooorst

@gsuberland hopefully having two different brands in the mirror should abate this in the future

the sus part is that this was my first time using those two cards, and they came from a brick and mortar store so probably weren't counterfeit...

@nyanotech this is why making SD cards the defacto storage medium for SBCs was such a huge blunder. they're bitrot hell in failure modes, the cost incentivises fakes, and you can't even guarantee integrity of data on a brand new card even if it is legit. plus they're slow as shit unless you pay the toll to use the full-fat SD protocol.

@gsuberland speaking of fakes, i'm annoyed i had to go to adorama to buy these

@nyanotech not a retailer I've come across before

@gsuberland none of the local brick and mortars have the ones i want (though, i didn't check the camera places; i probably should've done that), and, well, all the general-purpose online retailers have become Marketplaces now

@gsuberland (nothing against adorama, i've only had good experiences with them, i'm just annoyed i had to go that far down my list of retailers)

@gsuberland @nyanotech IMHO the Standard should've been mezzanine-connector - connected eMMC's or even better Slimline-#SATA / #eSATAp or #USB from the get-go.

@kkarhan @gsuberland no nvme? :p

@nyanotech @gsuberland #NVMe is #PCIe which will require a whole PCIe toot complex, which is much more expensive and electrically demanding than SATA and espechally USB 2.0.

Personally, booting from USB is the most important feature for the @Raspberry_Pi #Pi3B+ & #Pi3A+ and up - including #CM3+ [lite] and #CM4 [S][lite]...

@nyanotech @gsuberland @Raspberry_Pi I mean the #CM4 does support #NVMe and there are even boards from #WaveShare that basically breakout all the ports of a CM4 in the Foodprint of a #Pi4B - including #PCIe in the Form of an M.2 2280 M-Key slot [with a single lane]...

Still, out of cost reasons, USB-Boot would've been the most versatile option allowing anything from a cheap & slow USB 2.0 Thumbdrive [or even 3,5" FDD if supported for retro fans] up to a huge-ass array of HDDs and/or SSDs...

@gsuberland @nyanotech years ago i bought an odroid hc2 and put an old 2.5" ssd in it out of spite for sd cards

@nyanotech @gsuberland but it’s those little imperfections that make it special