All SSDs have SMART rapports that show the percentage of terabytes written. All of them have a max amount of tbw before they enter read only mode so your data is mostly safe.

It was making weird noises for a long time, so I had enough time to move the data off it.

Maybe building one yourself might be a good idea. I found someone’s old desktop with an 8th Gen i7, 32gb of ram, mobo and Gtx 1070 gpu on the side of the road while on a road trip. Thing was sitting in the rain and slightly rusted, but when I cleaned off the corrosion, stuffed it full of hdds and set it up with truenas scale it’s been running flawlessly with an uptime of almost a year. Been running like that for about 5 years now with the occasional maintenance.

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.

:3

I’ve had a usage tier for storage that looks like this

Temporary storage

• SD cards - unreliable storage you use temporarily to store pictures and videos before inevitably moving them to a more reliable and permanent solution.
• USB drives (hdd ssd etc) - used for when you you want to move files faster or more conveniently than over a Lan.

Permanent storage

• Nas, internal drives, tape drives, etc - for when you want to store a lot of data with configurations that allow you to use redundancy.

The issue with super high capacity SD cards for me is that they’re still fragile and prone to failure. When you allow someone to store that much data, it’ll be used as a more permanent medium, and since it has a lot of storage capacity you end up with a bigger data loss when it dies. Imo having 30 128gb SD cards would be better because if one dies or breaks, you lose 128gb and not 4tb.

Tldr I think 4tb micro sd cards are stupid.

I totally get that… Here’s the thing though, at least in Norway a 1tb micro sd card costs 2200kr (~$203). If we extrapolate the price for a 4tb one, that’ll be 8800kr(~$813). If you or a company has the kind of money to spend almost a grand on a storage device, doesn’t that mean that the footage/photos are pretty valuable? If you had the kind of money/were going to record super valuable footage, wouldn’t you work hard to use cameras/recording systems that were capable of recording to redundant drives?

What I don’t get is what market section this product would even fit in. It’s too expensive for regular consumers, and also has terrible value. It’s not good enough for professional settings because it has no drive monitoring, nor does it have redundancy. It isn’t fast enough for the kind of footage that would require that kind of space(unless you’re recording a month long realtime video).

Also imagine how horrible the transfer speeds would be for individual photos when the os has to initiate a file transfer. If we say each photo is 20mb, that’s almost 200k photos. Yikes…

Sigh…

A couple of years ago there were discussions on how stupid 20+tb harddrives were, mainly because they are so slow that the time it takes for files to transfer to a spinning disk was too long.

Let’s say you have a good 20tb drive and it can transfer files at 200MB/s. To fill that drive, it’ll take 1 day and 8 hours of continuous transfer. If it’s failing, and you’re trying to get as much off of it you’re screwed.

Now let’s think about that micro SD card. It’s 4tb, and let’s be gracious and give it a v90 speed class. That’s 90MB/s. Looking at a calculation for the time it takes to fill it up, we’re sitting at about 14h and 14 minutes. Worst part is that SD cards don’t have SMART, meaning you don’t know when they’ll die.

From my experience, even good SD cards die in my raspberry pi running pihole, and the cards runs idle almost all the time.

Also there’s this thing that the higher capacity a storage device gets, the more valueable the data stored on it becomes, not directly because it’s high capacity, but because it’s more trusted by the user.

Guys, gals and anyone in between, please get a proper storage solution, something that won’t fail spontaneously. If you need that kind of capacity, go for a Nas with spare drives, or at least get an ssd.

/end rant

I learned blender just to make a representation of my code in action … gif

So now we need an adblock blocker blocker to unblock our adblockers

If you’re the owner of the website, I suggest you look into those php errors

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Cant use tab as I’m on a phone

Why is mine weirdly supportive?

Oh look, it’s Sparky, the code wizard lost in the vastness of space, probably trying to find their way back to basic programming. Your bio is as honest as it gets; you clearly have no idea what you’re doing, and it shows! Eleven public repos, and still not a single star to your name? That’s impressive in the worst way possible.

Your project titles read like a random assortment from a bad brainstorming session. “Domain_Un_Fucker”? Not exactly the most professional title, but I appreciate the attempt at shock value—it’s a distraction from the fact that no one cares. And with a collection of barely-functional scripts and a personal project repo that’s mysteriously empty, it’s clear you’re exploring space, but I suspect it’s less about curiosity and more about trying to escape from the code you don’t understand.

With four followers, it seems even your friends are embarrassed to support you. Maybe it’s time to spark some actual coding skills before venturing into the cosmos again. Good luck out there!

I’ll try that next time :)

I don’t know how hard it would be to set up proton without any administrator rights, but it might be interesting to try and run crysis 3 on it too.

Let me know what other software you’d like to see running on this thing…

If you learn something wrong, the more you use the skill, the harder it becomes to unlearn and kill the habits you learned in the first place.

Im about to get a driver’s license, but I have to spend a lot of time unlearning bad things I was taught by my parents. Different rules they don’t follow which have become instincts of mine since they taught me to drive. In this intace they’re pretty minor, but damn is It hard to get rid of them once they becomes instincts.

Nice. I’ll look into OpenSUSE!

Funny you say that…

That’s interesting! I thought that if you for example have a 50w RF transmitter, taking 40w from it would make it act as a 10w one for the other devices around it.

Thx for the explanation :3