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I feel like this is a product looking for a market. Why would anyone ever trust that much data to something so fragile and easy to lose?
4k Drones, upgradeable phones, DLSR cameras, Data per weight etc.
I own a 1tb ssd for my Steam Deck, literally 0 complaints, runs real fast, can't feel any heat, never need to take it out other than if I'm factory resetting, it's perfect! (though Valves next deck should just have a bigger ssd slot)
I use a 2tb (iirc) in my steam deck. Perfect application for that... Low rewrites, but totally expendable/replaceable data.
They're not for long term storage, they're for transient storage like photography, in particular stuff like surveillance cameras
if you want long term CCTV setup properly you should be using ethernet connected security cameras and then transmitting it back to a central server with a hdd always recording. It's much more reliable and way more cost effective, just requires you running an ethernet cable to where the camera is.
Yeah but the live feed and remote downloading sucks
with ethernet the live feed is perfectly fine, and there is no remote downloading, it's all streamed over the ethernet to a central box which handles everything from there. You might need some decode/encode capabilities, but to my understanding a lot of cameras will run multiple hardware encodes straight from the sensor over to the network already. So you probably don't need much.
What brand do you have?
personally i don't have a cctv setup at the moment, so i can't give any recommendations, but you'd be looking for POE capable cameras, and you'd need a POE enabled switch, and a computer connected to that switch in order to handle the incoming data, including software obviously. But it's probably also dependent on the camera itself, nicer cameras are probably going to be more flexible.
there are plenty of decent videos about homelab based CCTV setups out there if you're looking to dig into them a bit more.
It depends on the type of location, small remote locations might not even get their own local network
yeah and at that point you're probably not using a microsd card i would figure. You have a small computer in there already, might as well throw in an SSD or something.
I guess if you needed the sheer capacity of 4TB you might use a micro sd, but you're probably gambling more than you're saving at that point.
I'd love them for my dash cam if they were affordable. My camera records in front and behind of my van in 4k, so that's 90-100 gigs an hour. I leave it running as a surveillance camera when I'm parked, so just going to work and back in one day would use over a terabyte.
Why would you continuously record? Just record motion events and you won’t need a card that large at all, plus it will last a lot longer.
Busy parking lots always have motion.
Filming 8K in a raw format maybe? (a lot of cameras only have an SD card slot, or only the sd card slot is fast enough to record raw at higher resolutions)
You probably wouldn't need to take it out of the camera either? so the form factor wouldn't be major concern.
It's only 104 MB/s. Not enough for RAW video.
Also could be handy for smuggling banned movies/tv shows into authoritarian countries that block or outlaw unauthorised VPNs?
Though for the price these will retail for, would probably be easier to take more, smaller capacity cards...
Also useful for devices where you want more storage but the device only has an SD card slot, or other slots are already occupied or sd card is just easier such as phones, Nintendo switch, steam deck, ultra light laptops, raspberry pi...