Silent-Hunter
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Yeah are you sure ED isn't doing this burn-in thing himself?
It's not that uncommon for small firms to contract out CE testing. Bigger firms will run stuff in house, but there's a fairly big expense in buying the regulated testing equipment in the first place, and then getting it re-regulated every year (although to be fair, I've no idea how much of that stuff they require). I wouldn't be surprised if he was happy doing the burn in tests locally, but he did say 'they'. If you look at the attached pdf, it's clear who did the testing, and it wasn't ED or his shop.
I am doing the testing myself, but I guess GamesCom was still a bit too exhausting, as I literally fell asleep over the boards... I have to get back to work at night times again, and today is the first night I'm up again, so it's getting better
I am doing the testing myself, but I guess GamesCom was still a bit too exhausting, as I literally fell asleep over the boards... I have to get back to work at night times again, and today is the first night I'm up again, so it's getting better
I guess the main market for big SD cards when the Pandora was current were cameras - CF cards used to be used mainly in cameras, but that's only true these days as an option on the very top top end of things. It's SD only all the way down these days. But the whole standalone camera market is very limited these days due to the rise of smartphones with passable cameras in them, at least if my view of foreign tourists these days is anything to go by.It seems like there is no big market for big SD-cards any more.
You can buy a micro SD-Card with 400 GB for 130€.
That's a much better price per GB than 230€ for 512 GB (I can get one used for 190€).
Maybe I will buy one of those. at least I can use it internally as well later.
Edit: That said, it's probably worth looking at the speed rating these cards ship with. Big SD cards are designed where speed is important, so generally have faster controllers than a lot of bargain bin μSD cards. I was looking at PNY cards the other day (just for pricing, it's not a brand I especially trust) and noticed their smallest cards still claimed to support up to 95Mb/s transfers (presumably reads on a good day for a fraction of a millisecond), but only claimed a U1 speed rating, which translates to a sustained read of 10MB/s. Their larger cards claimed U3 but the same top end speed rating, so you can't always go by the U rating for speed, sooner or later we'll need some better benchmarks.
e to setup my 2 * 512GB SD cards for real
I sure am interested in the GPD Win 2 too
If I had the money I would buy both and carry them with me all the time, hehe.