Large SD card storage?

[Kimmaz]

Do you think there is a product that lets you put a LOT of SD/microSD cards into a 3.5" or 5 1/4" cage and connect it with Sata cable to your computer?

If you fit them close together i bet you could get between 100 and 200 micro sd cards into a 5 1/4" kind of like how linus fit all those harddrives into the server he showed on a video. only on a smaller scale. well 100 - 200 times 512gb cards, is well 50 - 100 terabytes of storage in the space of a single dvd rom.

 

What do you guys think?

[SansVarnic]

No product like this exist that I am aware of or could search for.

[dizmo]

There is, it's a stupid idea. SD cards use cheaper memory than an SSD, and just aren't that great for any kind of long term storage.

[dizmo]

1 minute ago, SansVarnic said:

No product like this exist that I am aware of or could search for.

There's one that RAIDs numerous microSD cards.

https://usb.brando.com/10-x-micro-sd-to-sata-ssd-adapter-raid-quad-2-5-sata-converter_p13939c0046d015.html
 

But honestly even cost wise I'd rather just buy an MX300 m.2 and get 1.1TB of more reliable storage in a smaller form factor.

[Himommies]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

There is, it's a stupid idea. SD cards use cheaper memory than an SSD, and just aren't that great for any kind of long term storage.

I use them to fedex large files

[dizmo]

Just now, Himommies said:

I use them to fedex large files

Which isn't long term storage

[Himommies]

Just now, dizmo said:

Which isn't long term storage

I just keep them for a long time

does that count

[dizmo]

5 minutes ago, Himommies said:

I just keep them for a long time

does that count

Survey says no.

[Kimmaz]

Well if you took 2 of the same computer cases, and you filled the 8x 3.5" hard drive bays on one with ssd's and the other with micro sd cards. I think you would get more storage out of micro sd cards. Like lets say you can fit about 16 ssd's max by stacking 2 in each bay, you could fill the drive bays with like 1000 micro sd cards. they are so tiny... =P you would have more storage, even tho you could not use it as it was not connected.

[SansVarnic]

33 minutes ago, dizmo said:

There's one that RAIDs numerous microSD cards.

https://usb.brando.com/10-x-micro-sd-to-sata-ssd-adapter-raid-quad-2-5-sata-converter_p13939c0046d015.html
 

But honestly even cost wise I'd rather just buy an MX300 m.2 and get 1.1TB of more reliable storage in a smaller form factor.

Well I learned something today, that makes my quota  

[Ronin64]

Just a heads up. If I remember correctly, I think Linus mentioned on a Floatplane exclusive video he has one of those at the office and maybe doing a video on it.

[Mira Yurizaki]

42 minutes ago, dizmo said:

There's one that RAIDs numerous microSD cards.

https://usb.brando.com/10-x-micro-sd-to-sata-ssd-adapter-raid-quad-2-5-sata-converter_p13939c0046d015.html
 

But honestly even cost wise I'd rather just buy an MX300 m.2 and get 1.1TB of more reliable storage in a smaller form factor.

Even if one were to buy it, the page says it doesn't support UHS-1, which means at best it's good for up to 25 MB/s per card. Even if you RAID0 the entire thing, that's at best 250 MB/s

 

If it supported UHS-3 with up to 600 MB/s some and change, why would it be on a SATA connector?

[Drak3]

So, basically a less reliable SSD? With the only advantage being that you could use the cards in a phone/tablet/camera should a single card fail?

[dizmo]

19 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

Well I learned something today, that makes my quota  

It's one of those things that probably shouldn't exist, but does.

6 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Even if one were to buy it, the page says it doesn't support UHS-1, which means at best it's good for up to 25 MB/s per card. Even if you RAID0 the entire thing, that's at best 250 MB/s

 

If it supported UHS-3 with up to 600 MB/s some and change, why would it be on a SATA connector?

Haha, I never said it was a good idea, just that it exists. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

4 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

So, basically a less reliable SSD? With the only advantage being that you could use the cards in a phone/tablet/camera should a single card fail?

SSDs aren't any better theoretically speaking. If an SSD uses multiple chips, it's functionally the same as RAID 0ing a bunch of flash chips together.

 

But then again, SD cards aren't designed in a similar manner so who knows.

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

SSDs aren't any better theoretically speaking. If an SSD uses multiple chips, it's functionally the same as RAID 0ing a bunch of flash chips together.

Listen, homie, I know. That's why I said "basically a less reliable SSD." It's the same basic concept, except with a less reliable medium.

[79wjd]

6 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

SSDs aren't any better theoretically speaking. If an SSD uses multiple chips, it's functionally the same as RAID 0ing a bunch of flash chips together.

 

But then again, SD cards aren't designed in a similar manner so who knows.

 

4 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Listen, homie, I know. That's why I said "basically a less reliable SSD." It's the same basic concept, except with a less reliable medium.

A significantly less reliable one. Flash cards/drives tend to be the literal bottom of the barrel NAND that barely even qualifies as NAND. Not to mention the significantly worse controller. I'd be amazed if one of those micro-SD arrays lasts even a tenth as long as the cheapest modern known-brand SSD. 

[Ronin64]

Just a follow up to my last post, I found the video and he said he will be doing a video on this device and will be putting ten 128gb micro sd cards in it to make his own ssd.

[79wjd]

6 minutes ago, Ronin64 said:

Just a follow up to my last post, I found the video and he said he will be doing a video on this device and will be putting ten 128gb micro sd cards in it to make his own ssd.

He'll also probably run LTT archive servers off of it.