[mort96]

I just wish it was possible to buy decent ųSD cards. Even really expensive ones sold in reputable stores die all the time. Sure they work just fine if your goal is to write photos into it, never delete anything and get a new one once it fills up, but anything more write heavy typically kills my SD cards within months. SSDs last decades.

[Gigachad]

An SD card should only ever be treated as a local cache for data you can replace or will soon move to more permanent storage. Even if you had the best card in the world you could still lose or have your phone stolen.

[sand500]

I wish library of things had tape writers and readers. Magnetic tape storage is quite cost effective for data backups and archiving.

[NoSalt]

I have been using the same µSD card since 2016 with no issues.

Watch ... it'll fail on me later today. :-D

[ChoGGi]

The one in my dash cam has been going for a year or two now. I pull video off it fairly regularly. It's the branded rove 4k one.

[mort96]

Maybe that one is specifically made to work for that application. Are you confident that you could go out and buy a replacement SD card in a general electronics store and get something which would be as robust?

[mikestew]

The one in my dash cam is a SanDisk you can buy anywhere. It's got a good two years on it, works fine. Same in the Pi-hole, it was so long ago that I don't remember when I put that card in. More than three or four years, I'm pretty sure.

In fact, though I don't use a lot of SD cards, I don't recall having one go bad. I'm sure it's happened, but obviously not often enough for me to remember.