• cm0002@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What good is a stainless SD card

    Better thermal conductivity and in turn dissipation than plastic does tend to longer lasting flash chips, how much this change means in real world practice though remains to be seen

    Heat is a flash storage killer of all kinds

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      2 months ago

      It’s hard to believe that it would have taken 25 years for the many SD card builders out there to figure out that a heat spreader could solve the degradation problems.

      • The Assman
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        2 months ago

        Why would they want to solve an issue that causes you to need a new product from them