catgirl.download

@gsuberland anyway i bought new cards (the middle one here and one of the lexar 2000x, planning to use both of them as the pair in the camera) because i noticed that the cheaper model sandisk i was using before would have a few bits changed every time i copied the files off

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

@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...