If you go to shopping websites or your local stores, you'll find one 64 GB SD memory will cost you roughly the same as a 1 TB hard drive. Many will ask why, and there are possibly many reasons. Production costs, technology involved. From my own knowledge, it's because SD memory is much faster than Hard drives and they can just fit in your tablet-cellphone-laptop's port and stay in there, nearly invisible for you to use. The space inside them vs the space they occupy. Do you know any other reasons? I'm curious about this.
I agree. I think they're expensive because they are new technology and are much more efficient than their predecessors. I also understand that they supposedly are built to last way longer as well since it doesn't have the same spinning mechanism as the regular hard rives and therefore would presumably have much less wear and tear.
Are you talking about SD cards or Solid State Drives? SD Cards are expensive because they're so much smaller than an actual hard drive. SSDs are so expensive because they use flash memory, which costs more money to produce than a spinning drive. There are other factors at play, too, and SSDs aren't going to drop in price that much in the coming months. They're worth the speed boost, though.
I was talking about SD cards. They both use Flash Memory. An SSD drive's technology is similar to an SD card's, but of course more advanced and reliable in the long term. You can check Amazon and Ebay and you'll notice the prices for SD cards and External HDDs are similar. It's pretty weird for me, but at the same time it makes some sense. Also yes, a spinning drive is cheaper and slower, also consumes a lot more battery. I think the price on SSD drives will lower in about a year, at least.
Because SD cards can be put in phones and be used conveniently while external drives can't be. Haha! If you'll think about it, you also use SD cards more often (because you use your phone pretty often) as compared to external hard drives. However, I do believe that SD cards are over priced right now. But hey, what can we do? We have no choice.
I think that if we want to save, we can just buy the lower class of SD card, like a Class 4 or 6 or a lower GB size of a Class 10 SD Card. After all, 64 GB is a lot of data to be placed in a phone that needs to be charged after several hours. You can't really use or look through all of that data with just your phone.
SDs are much smaller in size, and I guess this factors into cost of production. Hopefully as technology improves we will soon see SDs get larger memory size for much lower costs! Just look at how USB thumbdrives have plummeted in price over the last decade, in my opinion there is little reason why SDs won't follow suit.
SD card are quite small and need to be able to handle a large amount of data. I believe that having such large amount of data on such a small tool is quite great. I think it is quite useful even though price is very high.
True. I've seen these memory cards before. Some of my friends have bought them. Problem is, these memory cards may get corrupted much easily than others. To compensate for that though, you could always use Dropbox and other cloud services to backup what's on your phone.
Really? If they are prone to get corrupted more than the others, then would you say that a 32 GB or less size of SD card is safer to buy? The largest that I have is 8 GB, and so far, no problems for me. I don't even switch the card from one device to another, it just stays there. And how about flash drives that are 32, 64 and 128 in GB size, are they susceptible to get corrupted too, based from what you have observed? Because I intend to buy one of those in the future, so I might as well cancel it if they are prone to get corrupted as well.
Honestly, what I'm more surprised about is when a HD with less than a terabyte costs almost the same price as the terabytes one; sometimes, even more expensive than a Seagate 1TB on discount. It really boggles the mind. But I guess in the HD/SD card storage, it has to do with space, technology and speed of the data, right?
The storage isn't the only thing you look at when buying a hard drive. The manufacturer/brand and speed are also important factors. Speed is speed, and different manufacturers generally have different lifetimes for their drives. For example, people I know have had bad experiences with Seagate drives, what with them having short lifespans and dying incredibly quickly. One of those people, my uncle, has expressed wonder as to how Seagate is still in business.
Oh. As someone who bought one... I guess because when you research it quickly and just look at reviews, you don't really see bad ones? Wish I had known this when I was ordering the parts for my build and putting the computer together. *sigh* How long do they last on average, then? I have the system files on a SSD but the actual rest on the TB seagate.
Here's a failure rate graph taken from:Log In As you can see, high failure rate occurs with Seagate. Though after a certain amount of time without failing (about a year?) you should be fine.
Oh. The 1TB looks fine though, all things considered. Well, I'm happy about that. Thanks for the graph!
I think it's because SD cards are more expensive to produce compared to standard HDD's which are basically all over the market and are cheaper to produce.
Hmm, I really don't know because I can only speak based on my own experiences. I think it depends on what data you put on the memory card, how large they are, and whether you remove it safely or not from the device. I think SD cards are more prone to being corrupted if you store large files in it with different formats plus a lot of applications . I'm not too sure about flash drives though.
I see, thanks for your input, I don't think I would now consider buying a 64 GB memory card even if their price gets lower just because they are prone to being corrupted. Were you able to use again the SD cards after they got corrupted by reformatting it? Or they became totally useless? I guess flash drives are better than SD cards, so I think they're the better choice among the 2 for storing data, since the way the are manufactured and how they look are very different form each other. At least the data is stored in a USB device.
My SD card for my Sony Ericsson phone got corrupted before due to saving a lot of apps in it (I think). I reformatted it and I was able to use it again but there were a lot of errors. There would be some missing data, apps would not be opened and such. The SD card for my Note 2 also got corrupted. But unlike the SD card of my Sony Ericsson, it is now unusable because it cannot be detected by any device, even if it is connected to a PC. So again, it depends.
