SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing - eviltoast
SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards
  • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Worst part is that SD cards don’t have SMART, meaning you don’t know when they’ll die.

    I mean, SMART doesn’t help much with knowing about HDDs’ death either. It’s more often they don’t show up at all, so you can’t even check SMART.

    • object [Object]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I see what you mean. It helps predict that, but not always. This is still a lottery, and the absence of SMART only makes it a little bit more of a lottery.