10mo ago

Lexar unveils the world's first SD cards made of 316 stainless steel

www.techspot.com

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10mo ago

Lexar unveils the world's first SD cards made of 316 stainless steel

www.techspot.com /news/104634-lexar-unveils-world-first-sd-cards-made-316.html

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Unironically a good idea. I can see these really helping to increase the chances of memory survival in camera applications where the camera has a high chance of being physically destroyed. Also a metal body reallllly helps conduct heat out of the flash, which will increase their lifespan in continuous-write applications.
- Stainless is extra bad at conducting heat considering it's a metal, but it's still way better than plastic. I hope they make an aluminum version at some point.
  
  Yes, stainless is "bad", compared to other metals. But like you also mentioned, it's loads better than plastic.
  I'd doubt they make an aluminum one, it's probably not worth the tooling.
  When dealing with only 100-200mW, even a small change in thermal conductivity will make a big difference.
  
  How strong is aluminium compared to steel again? Oh right, its butter...
Cool
Why tho
- Personally, id choose them over plastic ones if not just to save plastic
  
  doesn't metal manufacturing use quite a lot more energy?
- People will pay more money for premium.
  But yeah environmentally this is a damn good idea. We should make everything out of metal.
  
  sounds pretty metal
- Maybe extreme weather conditions for trail cams? That's the only reason I would think about using one but never actually buy one for lol.
  
  ROG Ally
- Cause it's metal.
  
  \m/
Less plastic being manufactured? Sounds good to me. :)
- Seriously. Let’s light a fire under this trend. I will spend twice as much on a thing if it’s metal instead of plastic.
  
  While we're at it, let's get back to all metal phones! Screw this glass back shit.
  For the "Wireless" charging people:
  It's a gimmick, nothing of value is lost
- Likely far more energy and pollution needed to manufacture this though so overall a loss for the earth.
  
  But most steel is recycled and most plastic is not.
  
  Energy needs can be met and shouldn't be an argument for using plastic.
  The pollution could be more dependending on how you look at that statement, but making something without plastic results in less plastic pollution and you can't claim that to be an overall loss for the earth.
  
  You can swap out centralized energy sources (relatively speaking) overnight as greener sources become cheaper/more available compared to retooling whole industries away from plastic
  It's the same thing with electric cars, yea it might plug in now to a dirty energy source, but that energy source could be a green energy source tomorrow without you ever knowing and importantly not having to buy a new car or change any other infrastructure to take advantage of it
  A power line is a power line, it doesn't care if the electricity going through it was derived from a dirty power plant or solar or nuclear
- I respect the sentiment, but is the amount of plastic in an SD card really that significant? There's probably more in just the packaging alone.
  
  A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Should have used glorious Nippon steel, folded over 1000 times.
- Easy there Weeby McWeebson.
I feel like dealing with SD cards' inevitable demise is more important than armoring them. What good is a stainless SD card that no longer functions after 2 years of use?
- What good is a stainless SD card
  Better thermal conductivity and in turn dissipation than plastic does tend to longer lasting flash chips, how much this change means in real world practice though remains to be seen
  Heat is a flash storage killer of all kinds
  
  It's hard to believe that it would have taken 25 years for the many SD card builders out there to figure out that a heat spreader could solve the degradation problems.
- Well considering that most of the SD cards I've had always died from foul play or physical destruction of some kind I think that armoring them is not without merit.
  Obviously like all solid state media they do wear out over time, and their wear leveling isn't as good as an SSD which has a much more sophisticated controller with much more sophisticated wear leveling management.
All the comments are fun and games but they could've used aluminium which is way cheaper. It's nothing more than a marketing gimmick.
- Was about to say
  cheaper
  lighter
  non-conductive
  softer, won't wear the port
  
  How is aluminum non-conductive? It's literally used as a lighter and cheaper alternative to copper in wires
- Aluminium corrodes, and is a relatively soft metal.
Isn't there a danger of someone shorting data to voltage by inserting this thing wrongly?
- Also a good way to wear down your SD port if you remove this with any regularity.
Why?
- Money whale hunting.
  
  https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/rust-oleum-specialty-all-surface-aerosol-metal-spray-paint-metallic-312-g-0482516p.0482516.html#store=313
  Wish crafts made a comeback.
Woah boy, Elon is gonna be super jealous.
Steam deck modders rejoice
- Doesn't the steam deck use micro SD cards, I don't think that these full-sized ones are going to be much help for those guys. Unless of course they come out with stainless steel micro SD cards but that doesn't seem likely for obvious reasons.
  
  Maybe you can just trim them!
  
  Everyone thought 1tb+ microsd is impossible, but here we are
ah yes, so you can get a card that will die before you manage to use all of it

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