• flatbield@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This is not about microSD cards. This is about some very specific SSD USB hard drives.

    Not sure why people would buy these from SanDisk anyway. I generally use Micron for SSDs… they have made various solid state memory products for 20 or 30 years. Not sure where SanDisk came from… I have more heard about flash drives from them and have a bunch of small SD cards myself.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      I’m aware of the difference. I was looking from the perspective of WD’s recent track record, with things like advertising DM SMR drives as NAS drives when they aren’t suited as such - I wouldn’t put it past them to make decisions negatively affecting the quality of their subsidaries’ other product segments

      For SSDs I buy from any brand really - Sandisk, Crucial, Kingston, and occasionally knock off chinese brands. I like Micron’s offerings (particularly the MX series with PLP capacitor backup and very generous NAND overprovisioning) but you pay a small premium for those.

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        1 year ago

        Yes I should have said Crucial. That is the brand used by Micron. Just got an MX500, 1TB drive for my Wife.

        Who are the big names for SSDs anyway. I mean ones that actually make them and sell them, not just brand them? I just recognize Micron/Crucial from the old days. They do memory chips of other kinds so I felt they should know how to do this sort of memory chip… nothing more… do not know how people in the know rate them.