Ok so were thinking sd-like cards and including TF? Well that makes the number a lot higher.
Since TF is simply a micro SD, I would assume so. A lot of stuff won't take a full sized SD card and need mini or micro format. There's also the SDHC and SDXC cards.
I was also wondering if they were asking about SD cards specifically or using SD as a generic term to include all flash cards. I have an older Canon DSLR that uses CF cards. My wife has a couple of digital picture frames that are still using CF cards too. I also have a really old digital camera that uses Sony memory sticks and a Bluray player
If by owned I include abandoned and lost, then yes, I've owned more than 16+ SD cards. All I know is that I've gone through more SD cards than USB flash drives, for a strategic reason. SD cards are simpler, as they don't have as much built-in electronics and are therefore easier to salvage when they start to go bad. I have a number of UFDs whose fault appear to be simply loose USB connectors. Probably can be hard-hacked by buying some Chinese spare parts, but that's too much a pain, especially when I have m
Both SD cards and USB drives have the same number of active electronics - one chip. Some thumb drives have an additional activity LED and resistor, but those arenâ(TM)t necessary for the device to function. If your USB connector has broken loose, just resolder it. What do you need new components for?
Actually, it's a NVMe enclosure (small enough to count as a stick) with a 16GB Optane disk inside (3DXpoint). It's the very first gen, unlike modern Optane disks it can only do 1.2GB/s rated / 0.9GB/s real -- thus it fits USB 3.1g2 max data rate of 10 Gb/s.
Alas, not many computers can reach that speed ("SuperSpeed+") and only some properly degrade, thus this stick is sort-of-permanently attached to my desktop.
SD cards have a fairly formalized system for rating them based on speed. So you know what you're getting (or supposed to be getting) when buying the card. USB flash drives are the wild wild west. Usually the only way to find out their speed prior to purchase is to get lucky and find a customer who has tested theirs and posted a review with the speeds..
sd cards have the worst, shittiest pseudo-bullshit marketing self-governed rules, that the industry try to fool you it's a "standard".
go on, read one of those standards.
they say things like "speeds of up to 3MB/second."
and the full standard doesn't even outline measurements practices or process or even guidelines. they do mention lots of leeway in terms of percentage of production lot that must pass the arbitrary test, etc. reach 3MB/s in the first 2kb and you're good to slap that A+ grade of BS on
Have 64gb as cards in tablet, phone, GoPro. Plus some small ones for raspberry pi projects. Don't really use them much. Next phone I'd rather have more built in storage.
I voted 11-15 but probably have more. I use them in cameras (still and GoPro) and as boot media for Raspberry Pi. Mostly 64 GB,
a few in other sizes. I bought a couple of 128 GB units the other day. They were on sale.
I also have quite a pile of thumb drives. Last ones I bought were 64 GB.
GoPro, I have 4 for that. Dashboard Camera, 3 or 4 for that. Dell servers, 8 for sure as I just picked up a package of 8 for the boot and for the iDrac. There may be a few others kicking around too.
The only things I have that take full-sized SD cards are cameras. Now if you throw in micro-SD cards (for phones and tablets and even some old media players) the answer would be higher.
The microsd cards are too small and i keep buying them so when i discover the spare cards i think what an idiot i am even though one did start to show issues of corruption.
The microsd card is the floppy disk of our day. Just like old times I have a dozen of them laying around probably with an install iso burned on it once and forgotten.
I recently found a tape exactly like this 3M DC600A data cartridge tape [wikipedia.org] in an old box. I may have misappropriated it when I left a job years ago, but it had thousands of lines of code that I had written*. I also have a whole shoebox full of 5.25" floppies, some 8-track tapes and even a reel-to-reel copy of The Who's "farewell concert" in 1982.
I can't read any of those things anymore.
I can still listen to cassettes and LPs though, but I don't bother.
Early hard drive platter about 12 inches across and 6 inches tall.
Not to mention the box of punch cards, in multiple formats codes.
And box of rolls of paper tape with I don't remember what on them.
Got a set of earphones with built-in micro SD mp3 player [aliexpress.com]. No screen, so keep a couple different colored SD cards with it to swap around. It reminds me of the days when I had a Walkman and carried a couple different cassette tapes around with it.
In surveys like this all too often the number ranges are linear, in this one you add 5 (0, 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16+). Surely it would make much more sense for a geometric scale, eg: 0, 1-3, 4-9, 10-27, 28+ ?
I do a lot of photography, using Olympus u43 gear that generates Raw-format image files of about 14MB per frame. If I use 16GB SDs I can accommodate an hour of video or 860 Raw stills on each. This size is my sweet spot: cheap at high quality, commonly available, and I don't lose a whole trip if a card goes bad.
People who make storage media don't seem to study and test real-world usage.
I hated CDs very shortly after they were introduced. You want me to store a humongous 650MB of data on something that can can be corrupted with a little scratch, even when you've taken all the precautions to not scratch it?
Now you want me to store gigabytes worth of data on a tiny chip that I can lose at a whim?
USB flash drives are excellent because the electronics are protected with a case and the size is big enough to for eas
Re: Cheez whiz (Score:1)
Meteor showers, check.
Tidal waves, check.
Fault lines that can not sit still, check.
And right one cue the first of a million dumbfounded dipshits.
Ba Da Dum (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ba Da Dum (Score:5, Funny)
Four and twenty SD cards Baked into a Rasperry Pi
And when the Pi was opened, did the cards begin to sing?
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No, they all started to scream. I don't understand why. It's like they had never seen a member of their brethren dismembered before. Odd.
Re: Ba Da Dum (Score:2)
RasPis, phones, cameras... I don't have an exact count, but well over 16, of that, I am sure.
Re: Ba Da Dum (Score:1)
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Ok so were thinking sd-like cards and including TF? Well that makes the number a lot higher.
Since TF is simply a micro SD, I would assume so. A lot of stuff won't take a full sized SD card and need mini or micro format. There's also the SDHC and SDXC cards.
I was also wondering if they were asking about SD cards specifically or using SD as a generic term to include all flash cards. I have an older Canon DSLR that uses CF cards. My wife has a couple of digital picture frames that are still using CF cards too. I also have a really old digital camera that uses Sony memory sticks and a Bluray player
Re: Ba Da Dum (Score:2)
I actually own a single micro SD card for a pi, but a ton of CF as well for the same reason, it's the format our DSLR uses.
Considering only durability, and how my flash cards are used in the field, CF is by far my favorite format.
I say only durability, because I think(but could be wrong) that SD cards offer hight capacities and faster speeds. And they are smaller.
...and to finish (Score:2)
the cards began to smoke,
"Wasn't that a stupid thing",
Said the IT bloke.
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Personally I just have one SD card for each raspberry pi. I just re-use the same one and backup the image when I want to load something new on it.
Oh SD not SSD :-) (Score:2, Offtopic)
n/t
Stopped counting (Score:1)
Re: Stopped counting (Score:1)
Re: Stopped counting (Score:2)
More modern USB sticks are full blown SSDs with wear levelling and controller chips etc. Ofc, thatâ(TM)s a good thing, and makes them fail less.
Re: Stopped counting (Score:1)
I don't know (Score:2)
I most likely have more than 16, but I don't know.
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I most likely have more than 16, but I don't know.
I only know that I always seem to have one less than I need, when I need one.
That I know of? Re:I don't know (Score:1)
I guessed a number, but I'm pretty sure I have more than that. I only know for sure about the one that I keep moving it to my newest smartphone...
I kept buying larger ones when the current card be (Score:2)
So, in actual fact I only has one card.
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One could only use so many coasters.
On the other hand, the free floppies they sent before they started using coasters were always appreciated.
As a hobby photographer, I have a fair few. (Score:1)
Technical question. (Score:2)
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I don't use either for permanent storage. Strictly long enough to get it to something more reliable.
[John]
Re: Technical question. (Score:1)
You mean USB SSDs! :D
(Imagine one, glued to the back of your phone, with a USB2GO adapter on the bottom.)
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You mean USB SSDs! :D
(Imagine one, glued to the back of your phone, with a USB2GO adapter on the bottom.)
yeah but thats where the portable charger is
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I have an Optane USB stick :) No flash involved.
Actually, it's a NVMe enclosure (small enough to count as a stick) with a 16GB Optane disk inside (3DXpoint). It's the very first gen, unlike modern Optane disks it can only do 1.2GB/s rated / 0.9GB/s real -- thus it fits USB 3.1g2 max data rate of 10 Gb/s.
Alas, not many computers can reach that speed ("SuperSpeed+") and only some properly degrade, thus this stick is sort-of-permanently attached to my desktop.
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Re: Technical question. (Score:2)
sd cards have the worst, shittiest pseudo-bullshit marketing self-governed rules, that the industry try to fool you it's a "standard" .
go on, read one of those standards.
they say things like "speeds of up to 3MB/second."
and the full standard doesn't even outline measurements practices or process or even guidelines. they do mention lots of leeway in terms of percentage of production lot that must pass the arbitrary test, etc. reach 3MB/s in the first 2kb and you're good to slap that A+ grade of BS on
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SD Cards have a flat 8-connector area, compared to a bulky USB port.
Don't use them much (Score:2)
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I added 64GB to my phone. Before I travel, I've got plenty of room for music, movies, etc. That's pretty much what it's dedicated to.
Lots! (Score:2)
I voted 11-15 but probably have more. I use them in cameras (still and GoPro) and as boot media for Raspberry Pi. Mostly 64 GB, a few in other sizes. I bought a couple of 128 GB units the other day. They were on sale.
I also have quite a pile of thumb drives. Last ones I bought were 64 GB.
...laura
Sixteen Plus (Score:2)
GoPro, I have 4 for that. Dashboard Camera, 3 or 4 for that. Dell servers, 8 for sure as I just picked up a package of 8 for the boot and for the iDrac. There may be a few others kicking around too.
[John]
I said 16+; but I'm assuming... (Score:3)
... I don't have to be able to tell you where they all are.
I know I have dozens, but part of the reason for that is I keep misplacing the ones I already own.
Zero SD cards, many microSD cards (Score:1)
I have zero SD cards but have many many microSD cards.
Zero.. (Score:3)
backup (Score:1)
I just buy a new one (Score:2)
They are soooo cheap, I just keep buying more. I don't even know how many I have. I need them for cameras and Rpi's
Actual SD cards? (Score:2)
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Good question! Subconsciously, when I counted my SDs, I included all of them irrespective of form factor.
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I mean, I've got more micro to full size SD cards than micro SD cards, so I don't see any reason not to count them all.
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And let's not forget the giant growing pile of microsd-to-SD adapters that every damned microsd I buy comes with that I will never use.
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The microsd cards are too small and i keep buying them so when i discover the spare cards i think what an idiot i am even though one did start to show issues of corruption.
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The only SD card my 3D printer uses is the one that's in the Raspberry Pi attached to the printer and running Octoprint.
Owning vs Using (Score:1)
You insensitive clod . . . (Score:1)
some here, some there, some missing (Score:1)
Luddite? (Score:5, Funny)
What kind of luddite only owns 16 SD cards? Clearly the voting options should be logarithmic. 1-9, 10-19, 20-99, 100-999, 1000+
Floppy disk (Score:2)
The microsd card is the floppy disk of our day. Just like old times I have a dozen of them laying around probably with an install iso burned on it once and forgotten.
Micro SD (Score:2)
But I'm still as much of a man as you!
How many you own, (Score:2)
is not the same as how many you use...
SD, mini SC, Micro SC, Compact Flash (Score:2)
the great thing about standards is that there are so many of them
How much media do you own that you cannot read? (Score:2)
That's the more interesting question to me.
I recently found a tape exactly like this 3M DC600A data cartridge tape [wikipedia.org] in an old box. I may have misappropriated it when I left a job years ago, but it had thousands of lines of code that I had written*. I also have a whole shoebox full of 5.25" floppies, some 8-track tapes and even a reel-to-reel copy of The Who's "farewell concert" in 1982.
I can't read any of those things anymore.
I can still listen to cassettes and LPs though, but I don't bother.
* As I recall,
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Mciro SD as Cassette Tapes (Score:3)
Got a set of earphones with built-in micro SD mp3 player [aliexpress.com]. No screen, so keep a couple different colored SD cards with it to swap around. It reminds me of the days when I had a Walkman and carried a couple different cassette tapes around with it.
Why is the scale linear ? (Score:4, Insightful)
In surveys like this all too often the number ranges are linear, in this one you add 5 (0, 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16+). Surely it would make much more sense for a geometric scale, eg: 0, 1-3, 4-9, 10-27, 28+ ?
There's a reason I have so many of them (Score:2)
I do a lot of photography, using Olympus u43 gear that generates Raw-format image files of about 14MB per frame. If I use 16GB SDs I can accommodate an hour of video or 860 Raw stills on each. This size is my sweet spot: cheap at high quality, commonly available, and I don't lose a whole trip if a card goes bad.
I have 3 sd card (Score:1)
only because I have to (Score:1)
I have no idea. Many of them are lost. (Score:1)
I've got at least 5, but who knows where the rest of the tiny things went.