Is there such a device?

[rarenick]

Can combine multiple SD cards for RAID or mass storage? Something like internal or external HDD albeit smaller.

 

[devilwahaha]

Can combine multiple SD cards for RAID or mass storage? Something like internal or external HDD albeit smaller.

There is such products, but the practicality of it is really pretty stupid

 

[OlympicDreamer]

Can combine multiple SD cards for RAID or mass storage? Something like internal or external HDD albeit smaller.

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[rarenick]

There is such products, but the practicality of it is really pretty stupid

Why stupid? I got quite a few 8gb cards. Soon there will be collection of 16 or 32 GB. These class 10 cards are faster than normal HDD or not?

Is there an external casing?

 

[Ark Law]

Might as well use this;

 

[Swiftbladez]

Why stupid? I got quite a few 8gb cards. Soon there will be collection of 16 or 32 GB. These class 10 cards are faster than normal HDD or not?

Is there an external casing?

Slower. Class 10 cards are definitely slower than HDDs.

 

[Ark Law]

Slower. Class 10 cards are definitely slower than HDDs.

Agree. My previous Sandick 32GB Extreme (rated at 45MB/s) barely pops past 40MB/s and my Samsung 32GB Pro (rated at 40MB/s) at most does 43MB/s. Bear in mind these are only seq writes, random performance is much worse.

My 2012 model 750GB seagate goFlex easily blasts at >80MB/s in seq write. @TS unless you're using sd solely for pro photo & video taking, you're better off using an SSD with a usb-to-sata connector if you want fast flash storage.

Sandick 32GB (2012) - $55
Samsung 32GB (2013) - $45
Seagate 750GB (2013) - $78

 

[LonelyMan]

TS, the write durability of the sd cards are less than those of ssd

 

[devilwahaha]

Why stupid? I got quite a few 8gb cards. Soon there will be collection of 16 or 32 GB. These class 10 cards are faster than normal HDD or not?

Is there an external casing?

Even if you put 4 of those class 10 cards in RAID 0 through one of these adapters, unless all your cards are those top of the line SD cards you will hardly surpass HDD speeds in any scenario, not to mention the poor write durability of SD cards relative to HDD.

IMO this is only practical if you have to transfer a lot of content from many SD cards fast to PC.

Someone actually posted this on VR-Zone before, and even the thread starter also say the idea pretty useless

 

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