Anyone else noticing microSD cards getting worse?
I bought myself a stash of Kingston Cavas 32GB as they were reliable and performant.
But i’ve had to replace 4 in my sabers this month. 2 were sabers that had literally sat in a box for a year untouched. Another was a used saber and another a more display model.
Immediately on powering up the saber was crackling / stuttering / randomly switching fonts — akin to low-battery
Definitely wasn’t battery so i swapped out the SD and problems all solved.
Performance a format and re-copy and noticed it was copying at 20% the normal speed on the dud ones.
On a related note: Does anybody know which SD card manufacturers (if any) actually make their own products? I suspect that a lot of SD card brands are simply badge-engineering (buy cheap crap, put your name on it to increase it’s value, profit), but surely some companies still have their own factories, right?
I know Samsung makes flash chips, but does Samsung SD cards actually have Samsung flash chips in them? It would make sense if they did, but sense and business don’t always go together…
Purely based on the idea that people who own factories have more skin in the game, I would personally prefer to buy cards from the companies that make their own sd cards.
On a side note: I had no idea that Kioxia == Toshiba. What idiot decided to replace a brand that everybody has heard of with one that I can’t even pronounce??
Did you (or any other human) review the AI generated content? Do you believe it is accurate?
If not, please remove it. Generally speaking, posting AI content isn’t allowed unless the poster takes at least some responsibility for the accuracy.
links is probably better. Filtering it through an AI taints the information with suspicion.
Someone going to read this post a few years from now and go “why?”
As far as I can tell, San Disk still makes their own cards and I’ve had good luck with them as long as I safely remove them when disconnecting. Any attempts to edit while pugged into the saber (mas storage setup) seems to cause issues though so I avoid it.
It shouldn’t be an issue as long as you always “eject safely” (or whatever that is called in your OS.)
I used to always keep “mass storage” off, because it was easy to make a msitake and corrupt the SD card, but using the SD locking in OS8 has changed how I use it. Now I keep “mass storage” on all the time, but I only enable SD access when I actually want to edit something, and then I carefully unmount and disable sd access before doing other stuff.
I really need to set this up. It would have saved me a bunch. For some reason even when safely ejecting the card I’ve had a couple instances of issues anyway. Might have been user error…
