200 1TB Micros

[MediaMan]

I have been thinking for awhile now on purchasing 200 1TB MicroSD Cards to transfer my data to (off of my hard drives).  My reasoning for this is that I have been looking for a simpler way of carrying my media collection with me, without needing to connect to a cloud service.  Do you think that this is reasonable?  If I were to go to having a smartphone instead of a pc or laptop, then carrying my media with me would be easier than ever before! But at $200 USD per card, it would be very costly ($40,000 not including any taxes).  Has anyone done anything similar to this?  I use the SD Card Holders to put my Micros in as is, and they're 2 to 3 times as thick as your standard credit card, meaning that I would need (they fit 11 cards each) 19 holders in total, equaling 38-57 credit cards thick, or 29mm to 44mm (1.2 to 1.7 inches).  This is significantly less than your standard hard drive's size, and even is comparable to a portable external hard drive.  Of course, data management would be a pain, but if properly organized, could work out in my favor.  Have any of you tried something similar to what I plan on doing?

[Electronics Wizardy]

How much data do you need to carry with you? Thats a massive media collection to need on the go.

 

I have noticed a pretty high failure rate on sd cards, esp on cheap ones.

 

Id much rather have a few 32tb ssds.

 

Yea its not cheap, a high speed cellular data plan + server would probably be a much better and cheaper and more reliable option.

[mariushm]

SD cards are much less reliable than SSDs or mechanical drives and more susceptible to ESD (getting damaged/zaped by static electricity when inserted in connectors or grabbed with fingers)

1 TB SSDs are already under 100$, and if you're buying 50-100 pcs, you can go to a distributor or some company and you can probably get a discount of around 5-10%.

Also, the transfer speeds of SD cards would be much lower, in the 30-50 MB/s range maybe. The number of erase cycles would be way lower, less life.

 

[19_blackie_73]

For 40k you can build yourself a decent nas

[dizmo]

Seems like an extremely stupid idea.

[MediaMan]

12 minutes ago, mariushm said:

SD cards are much less reliable than SSDs or mechanical drives and more susceptible to ESD (getting damaged/zaped by static electricity when inserted in connectors or grabbed with fingers)

1 TB SSDs are already under 100$, and if you're buying 50-100 pcs, you can go to a distributor or some company and you can probably get a discount of around 5-10%.

Also, the transfer speeds of SD cards would be much lower, in the 30-50 MB/s range maybe. The number of erase cycles would be way lower, less life.

 

If I were to buy regular SSDs, then I would purchase a 100TB SSD.  That is not the point.  The point is being able to view my entire media library by inserting micros into my phone (lg g8x thinq dual screen).  If I wanted a regular SSD, I would have not made this thread.  My transfer speeds on my SD Cards are between 80 and 90MB/s.  It used to be sub 40MB/s until I bought the Lexar 3 port MicroSD Card Hub.  No erasing would be done on these cards.  They would mainly be write once, read many.

4 minutes ago, 19_blackie_73 said:

For 40k you can build yourself a decent nas

That defeats the purpose I have listed.  A NAS does not allow for portability.

 

3 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Seems like an extremely stupid idea.

Different strokes for different folks.

[Kilrah]

Well you'd want to copy the data off of your hard drives, not move becasue you'll likely have several cards dying over time.

 

Other than that it indeed makes little sense. You have 200TB of media, and really can't make yourself a selection of what you want to watch on the move and require everything? Are you spending your live in front of the screen?

 

Sounds like trolling TBH.

[MediaMan]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Well you'd want to copy the data off of your hard drives, not move becasue you'll likely have several cards dying over time.

 

Other than that it indeed makes little sense. You have 200TB of media, and really can't make yourself a selection of what you want to watch on the move and require everything? Are you spending your live in front of the screen?

 

Sounds like trolling TBH.

It would give me the option to watch whatever I want on the go.  Sorry you think I am trolling, but I am not.

[19_blackie_73]

21 minutes ago, MediaMan said:

30 minutes ago, 19_blackie_73 said:

 

That defeats the purpose I have listed.  A NAS does not allow for portability

But access from everywhere

[mariushm]

If you want to watch on phone,  you'd probably be better off to getting all your content and converting it to 720p hevc or something like that. On the small screen of a phone, you don't need 1080p or 4K content, so you'd be able to shrink your content significantly.

Get your 4-10 GB 1080p video down to 800-1GB and you're shrinking your 200 TB worth of videos down to maybe 20-30 TB.

Not that hard to carry a couple of 8-12 TB mechanical drives with you (or a stack of 5-10 SATA SSDs), along with an usb external drive thing to carry data with you and simply copy the content you want into your phone and disconnect the external storage.

 

[lafrente]

Is that a real question or you just wanna fuck about?

200 microsd's aren't easier to carry around. Aren't fast enough, aren't organized at all. You'd need an excel file to remember which file was where, even if you knew exactly which one it was, you'd have to dig it out of 200 pieces which you hand labelled one by one. And as you pointed it out its gonna be expensive.

 

And all of this for what? Shits and giggles?

 

#threadclosed

[Kilrah]

15 minutes ago, MediaMan said:

It would give me the option to watch whatever I want on the go.  Sorry you think I am trolling, but I am not.

Well, that this privilege is for real worth $40K to someone sounds a little uncommon, especially since you can probably download whatever you wanted to watch next again in a few minutes.

 

 

[MediaMan]

4 minutes ago, lafrente said:

Is that a real question or you just wanna fuck about?

200 microsd's aren't easier to carry around. Aren't fast enough, aren't organized at all. You'd need an excel file to remember which file was where, even if you knew exactly which one it was, you'd have to dig it out of 200 pieces which you hand labelled one by one. And as you pointed it out its gonna be expensive.

 

And all of this for what? Shits and giggles?

 

#threadclosed

Its a real question.  Sorry you seem to be in a bad mood, im not here to offend you.  200 Micros are easy to carry around.  I carry around 100 as is (I do a shit load of photography).  They are fast enough (80-90MB/s), and they are organized.  I do not need an excel file, I use snap2html and vvv.  I do not need to hand label them, but the holder they are in.  Expensive yes, but until they come out with 10TB Micros, its going to be that way.  No, not for shits and giggles.  No, thread is not closed.

 

Have a better day that the one you are having now.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

Well, that this privilege is for real worth $40K to someone sounds a little uncommon, especially since you can probably download whatever you wanted to watch next again in a few minutes.

^^^ This. It's the cost + for some reason needing a 200TB mobile storage option to view all the files from on... your phone (?) that makes it seem like trolling. I mean I guess they made iPods with stupid large HDDs for audiophiles, but even that was like... 200-250GB or something. GB, not TB. 

[lafrente]

6 minutes ago, MediaMan said:

Its a real question.  Sorry you seem to be in a bad mood, im not here to offend you.  200 Micros are easy to carry around.  I carry around 100 as is (I do a shit load of photography).  They are fast enough (80-90MB/s), and they are organized.  I do not need an excel file, I use snap2html and vvv.  I do not need to hand label them, but the holder they are in.  Expensive yes, but until they come out with 10TB Micros, its going to be that way.  No, not for shits and giggles.  No, thread is not closed.

 

Have a better day that the one you are having now.

I am having a nice shiny morning yet its not about me buddy, its about your question. You talk like you got everything figured out(!) including that microsd holder with 100 unit capacity. Why don't you move along and do it? 

[MediaMan]

9 minutes ago, lafrente said:

I am having a nice shiny morning yet its not about me buddy, its about your question. You talk like you got everything figured out(!) including that microsd holder with 100 unit capacity. Why don't you move along and do it? 

I never said I have everything figured out.  I wanted to find out if anyone has any similar experience with having their entire media collection in such a fashion.

[kokosnh]

It's cloud, or NAS with cloud/external access. 

To much data. 

[beavo451]

On 2/12/2020 at 2:23 AM, MediaMan said:

I never said I have everything figured out.  I wanted to find out if anyone has any similar experience with having their entire media collection in such a fashion.

No. Nobody does that.