SD

14 Responses:

1. 1

   Via Mastodon

   I spent $195 on a 1tb ssd two years ago and the cheapest I can find it now is $400. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

2. Peter says:

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   United States

   A.k.a. "Premium" SD cards

3. dzm says:

   1

   United States

   Fighting the good fight against Big Memory and AI.

   We who are about to overpay for storage salute you.

4. George Nakos says:

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   Netherlands

   Back in 2008, when one over here could buy a 16gb USB stick for around 20 euros, we were quoted (at work) around 50 euros for a 512k sd card just because it was carrying the Siemens logo.

   Scam artists.

5. Via Mastodon

   Reminds me of the time I was buying a ton of Cisco gear (100k+) for work, and they had this line item for $700. When I asked what that was, I found out it was a CF Flash card. "You're kidding." "Oh, it's been certified by Cisco."

   Yeah, I didn't buy that, and ended up going with a reseller who got us a significant discount. (Still didn't buy their CF card...)

   • United Kingdom

     I'm surprised it booted with a non-Cisco card in it. I'm sure they'd have denied you any warranty claims if they'd found it too.

6. Via Mastodon

   Do these happen to be 'luxury' cards ?

7. 3

   United States

   I found some long-term charts of memory prices. It looks like they have stabilized at around 2020 level - except for HBM, which is still climbing. Fuck AI!

8. thielges says:

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   United States

   I embrace the "out of principle" part too though I'm usually considered just being cheap.  Principle is why I rely on century old navigation methods, plant my garden in the earth's soil, avoid packaging intensive products, and still ride steel instead of semi-disposable carbon bikes.  I hope to continue using my brain for thinking going forward.

   Lately I've been trying to get by on the few SD cards I have now, scavenging them from devices I don't really need.  It is the first time the economic corollary to Moore's Law has gone backwards in such a big way.  The NVRAM I use to run all of my outward facing services is about the same as what is needed to support less than 1% of a neural net containing comprehensive knowledge of a single celebrity within an LLM.  What a tradeoff!

9. Stefan Karl says:

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   Germany

   cat /sys/fs/ext4/mmcblk2p1/lifetime_write_kbytes
   625427425

   My sd card is cooked, right? I have one of those pseudo SLC endurance ones:
   625425753 * 9.313226E-7
   = 582.47 GiB

10. Canada

    At OldWork, I plugged a raspberry set to run an io stress test on boot into a lamp timer set to cycle the power every 30 minutes, and had a small jar of sdcards that failed in under 24 hours.  It took a while to find a supplier that sold an sd card that I couldn't kill that way, and they were about 45 dollars for a 4gb.  This was however about 15 years ago, perhaps the firmware on that crap has improved since then.

    • jwq says:

      New Zealand

      [TW: Python] So, FWIW, I had two ADATA 16 GB microSD cards fail, one after the other, by trying to building Python with optimisations on using pyenv on Raspberry Pi 4. Build without optimisations worked fine, so I'm left speculating that the intensive writing to the SD associated with optimisation caused both cards to fail to read-only mode.

11. 4

    United States

    Parallel:
    AI boosters who then exclaim "when did RAM and storage suddenly get so expensive? Why?" are some of the most immediately punchable people on the earth.

    • Cordwainer Fish says:

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      United States

      The words between 'boosters' and 'are' are doing very little lifting.