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  • Does it make ANY sense to make your OWN SSD from Micro SD cards?
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  • @SuperSmashDolls
    @SuperSmashDolls 6 лет назад +5099

    "Do NOT support UHS-I" means they don't support the higher-speed microSD modes. UHS-I cards are require to work in non-UHS bus microSD slots. It means that it'll work, just not anywhere close to the rated speed for the card.

    • @omarzellal6330
      @omarzellal6330 6 лет назад +182

      Yup, backwards compatibility.

    • @ruhnet
      @ruhnet 6 лет назад +123

      +Super Smash Dolls: and if he used quality SD cards, it would be a lot better performing. Some cards rated UHS-I do fine with that interface but are abysmal in standard mode. Other cards, like "Sandisk Extreme Pro 95MB/s," which will still only give the full rated speed only when using UHS-I, do very very well in standard mode.

    • @naverilllang
      @naverilllang 6 лет назад +60

      Ruel Tmeizeh still doesn't avoid the fact that this is a pointless piece of hardware.

    • @meinnase
      @meinnase 6 лет назад +164

      I really dont know, maybe someone, somewhere was really into photography but stopped and now has 20 SD cards lying around. That dude might be really happy to have found a purpose for his cards? lol

    • @doppeltegenkidama
      @doppeltegenkidama 6 лет назад +49

      the funny party of this is... someone who name herself "linus tech tips" should know this basic informations about memory speed ^^

  • @hampoon
    @hampoon 5 лет назад +7546

    Next vid: Making an HDD with CDs

  • @phillipzx3754
    @phillipzx3754 5 лет назад +1945

    You have 10 slots and 10 SD cards. There IS no order.

    • @elijahking7309
      @elijahking7309 5 лет назад +37

      Imagine doing 2, 4, 6, or 8 but missing the first slot

    • @mitchbogart8094
      @mitchbogart8094 4 года назад +34

      It is the population order. If you install 2, 4, or 8, you have to populate the SD sockets labeled 1&2, 1-4, or 1-8, none of which are physically next to each other. There is no order of course for which of the to be populated sockets you populate first. (power is off)

    • @tesityr6722
      @tesityr6722 4 года назад +50

      If I may explain, the point is that if you have LESS THAN 10, you must do it in that order to populate the readable ports in the order that they will be accessed by the controller (it will use certain ones 'first' and so you must have cards in those 'for sure', for it to work - if you have less than 10..). HTH ~T

    • @Nforcer60
      @Nforcer60 4 года назад +4

      @@tesityr6722 that makes me wonder if it will be actually faster if would you only use 2 cards?

    • @seyyadqurbano844
      @seyyadqurbano844 4 года назад

      @@mitchbogart8094 bed

  • @LoganT547
    @LoganT547 4 года назад +2884

    "Mom can we get SSD?"
    "We have SSD at home"
    SSD at home:

    • @ZaHandle
      @ZaHandle 4 года назад +11

      captain skeptical *Sweet home alabama*

    • @justinstover5168
      @justinstover5168 3 года назад +4

      i dont get it

    • @tobiassander3995
      @tobiassander3995 3 года назад +4

      Mom'S SpaggheDdi?

    • @vrajeshpc
      @vrajeshpc 3 года назад +4

      @@justinstover5168 The vid shows the ssd that this guy says his mom says to use as the new one is expensive

    • @TheSabinator
      @TheSabinator 3 года назад +2

      12 TERA BYTES

  • @wreck-itralph938
    @wreck-itralph938 4 года назад +2049

    10 years later: *_"DIY SSSD made of SSD Cards!"_*

    • @brotnjanin
      @brotnjanin 4 года назад +291

      *Super-Solid State Drive*

    • @sorry_Im_stupid_but
      @sorry_Im_stupid_but 4 года назад +36

      @@brotnjanin same thinking lol

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams 4 года назад +11

      You can get PCIe to M.2/SATA cards.

    • @pizzoo
      @pizzoo 4 года назад +143

      SSSD Made of SSDs made of SDs

    • @polski_dezerter
      @polski_dezerter 4 года назад +18

      @@pizzoo ah yes an underrated comment

  • @snazzy
    @snazzy 6 лет назад +3303

    SDSSD. This is a terrible and impractical idea. I love it!

    • @pogchamp4542
      @pogchamp4542 6 лет назад +48

      Snazzy Labs yep typical Linus tech tips content

    • @xander1052
      @xander1052 6 лет назад +20

      SD cards as SSDs make so little sense in so many ways, more expensive, slower, not M.2, what could possibly be a better video starter?

    • @Kinpil10
      @Kinpil10 6 лет назад +9

      What if you have a bunch of SD cards laying around you you want it to be bigger. Sata to USB

    • @smcfadden1992
      @smcfadden1992 6 лет назад +4

      What if you run them in raid?

    • @mazimilianoaure7791
      @mazimilianoaure7791 6 лет назад +7

      As funny as it is, it’s such a terrible idea that I can’t even understand what the creators were thinking.

  • @prithvirajdj
    @prithvirajdj 4 года назад +639

    Gets SD cards from Kingston,
    Recommends SSD from Crucial & WD.

    • @-WarCriminal-22
      @-WarCriminal-22 4 года назад +17

      WD SSD's are overpriced, lmao

    • @livinglifeform7974
      @livinglifeform7974 4 года назад +26

      Crucial make really good SSD's but WD aren't that great iirc

    • @Tsino69
      @Tsino69 3 года назад +7

      You know how Linus feels about dram-less ssd's. He'd never recommend one.

    • @hampoon
      @hampoon 3 года назад

      Prithvi Raj Because Kingston supplied the SD cards for him.

    • @nikhilpaleti3872
      @nikhilpaleti3872 3 года назад +2

      Sad King noises

  • @poured_treasures
    @poured_treasures 4 года назад +646

    I remember when 1GB was around $100. Tech goes down on price pretty fast

    • @justinrobinson6965
      @justinrobinson6965 4 года назад +53

      Only when you dont pay attention

    • @Hipno702
      @Hipno702 4 года назад +44

      True. I just bought a 128gb micro at walmart for 15 dollars

    • @user-10021
      @user-10021 4 года назад +39

      Brute Hunter I still have an old 1TB HDD with the price tag of 3k+€ on it.. nowadays it’s like 40€?
      Really insane how the price dropped

    • @mellertid
      @mellertid 4 года назад +14

      I think my first hdd packed 21 mb.

    • @romanomed7467
      @romanomed7467 4 года назад +5

      Lasse Hjalmarsson I remember i had a 8 mb one

  • @Ouski
    @Ouski 5 лет назад +1006

    I work at a recycling place that doesn't recycle electronics, so I always find free micro SDs so this is actually amazing for me.

    • @slavb0i646
      @slavb0i646 4 года назад +7

      not really

    • @cyberspino6277
      @cyberspino6277 4 года назад +136

      @@slavb0i646 it costs 20$ and if he has 10 64gb sd cards he can use them and get 640gb of storage for 20$

    • @slavb0i646
      @slavb0i646 4 года назад +12

      @@cyberspino6277 hardly a human will give 64gb sd cards into a recycle place in hope they will recycle them, and the performance is terrible so no point either lol

    • @SamuelLing
      @SamuelLing 4 года назад +94

      it depends some people just throw away their phone when it's broken, or the phone is dropped and etc.

    • @Ouski
      @Ouski 4 года назад +87

      @@slavb0i646 my work is Murphy's law on steroids. It happens

  • @LEDtherebelight
    @LEDtherebelight 6 лет назад +362

    "I have no expectations"
    "It worked better than I expected"
    .
    WHAT IS IT LINUS?!?!

    • @nayabwarach2713
      @nayabwarach2713 6 лет назад +13

      LEDtherebelight it works better than nothing (???)

    • @JorgeMurio
      @JorgeMurio 6 лет назад +10

      can't trust him anymore

    • @SyukriLajin
      @SyukriLajin 6 лет назад +13

      if he had 0 expectation, any small positive would be better than he expected.

    • @jaalan7896
      @jaalan7896 5 лет назад

      @@SyukriLajin He didnt say he had 0 expectation. He said he had no expectations.

    • @freevbucks8019
      @freevbucks8019 4 года назад

      Being a note 7 camouflaged as an ssd.

  • @cezarcatalin1406
    @cezarcatalin1406 4 года назад +125

    Hey, if the controller would be much smarter, if it would have DRAM cache on it, if it would support like 256 fast SDcards in raid 5 and if it would be connected to a pcie4 slot - then you could have a super-fast super-resilient SSD that you could repair if one SD card fails !
    THIS IS NOT A BAD IDEA IF IT IS SCALED UP !

    • @nemtudom5074
      @nemtudom5074 2 года назад +7

      Okay
      Good luck convincing someone to make a PCB like that

    • @cezarcatalin1406
      @cezarcatalin1406 2 года назад +6

      @@nemtudom5074
      ok, 64 SDcards would probably be more than enough considering the best SDcards are fast and huge now.

  • @SolidSonicTH
    @SolidSonicTH 4 года назад +58

    In this case, "SSD" means "Simultaneous Secure Digital"...

  • @trentonpaul6376
    @trentonpaul6376 6 лет назад +758

    Linus: "I'm going into this with no expectations" *gets results* "They were better than I expected"

    • @fetchstixRHD
      @fetchstixRHD 6 лет назад +49

      Well to be fair, it's technically true 🤔

    • @MarioPL989
      @MarioPL989 6 лет назад +97

      well, if you expect nothing, it's always better than you expect

    • @DragonProtector
      @DragonProtector 6 лет назад +1

      yup lol

    • @CaveyMoth
      @CaveyMoth 6 лет назад +1

      Annihilate all expectations.

    • @g00fysmiley
      @g00fysmiley 6 лет назад +6

      I was literally expecting it not to work at all so by that metric (and only that metric) it passes

  • @def_not_dan
    @def_not_dan 6 лет назад +126

    I can see that being a really good way of keeping files incredibly secure.
    Save your super-secret files > remove the SD cars > send them to 10 separate locations around the world.

    • @PhilipWarda
      @PhilipWarda 6 лет назад +13

      Definitely Not Dan thank you. I can now sleep at night

    • @def_not_dan
      @def_not_dan 6 лет назад +24

      Glad I could help. If you need any more strange and elaborate ways of hiding things, you know where I am. ;)

    • @gt20modding88
      @gt20modding88 6 лет назад +14

      Your hiding somewhere.

    • @tyepowers5536
      @tyepowers5536 6 лет назад +1

      I mean, I guess if your super secret data isn't particularly important...
      I pull my photos off my SD cards as fast as possible, and those aren't hardly important.

    • @brockwalls1413
      @brockwalls1413 6 лет назад

      Take em all out and zap carry em

  • @JmC023
    @JmC023 4 года назад +113

    With the last five years, I've accumulated 8 Micro SD cards from four different phones. That's what products like these are made for, data storage, not an OS. Instead of having them laying around they can be repurposed.

    • @jub8891
      @jub8891 4 года назад +3

      i have that same problem as well- this thing makes them useful again

    • @Zack_Wester
      @Zack_Wester 3 года назад +1

      @@jub8891 I had at a time like 20 diffrent Micro SD cards sized from 128MB to 16 or so GB wounder if that could be run.

    • @billkeithchannel
      @billkeithchannel 3 года назад +4

      It seems it would be good for storing a backup of a downloaded RUclips channel you are migrating to another platform like Bitchute or Brighteon, while making use of old cards just sitting there.

  • @intelchip_x86
    @intelchip_x86 3 года назад +43

    SD is evolving...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    Congratulations! Your SD has evolved into SSD!

    • @loop5720
      @loop5720 3 года назад +3

      Now for the SSSD and SSSDD

    • @itseasy1861
      @itseasy1861 2 года назад +1

      @@loop5720 wait for next update , this feature will be implemented soon

    • @I_am_a_greek_fis.
      @I_am_a_greek_fis. 20 дней назад

      Still no update....​@@itseasy1861

  • @zedzedski7382
    @zedzedski7382 6 лет назад +330

    Save money on Dollar Shave and buy a proper SSD

  • @staffy35
    @staffy35 6 лет назад +510

    It’s for the guy who accidentally bought a bunch of micro sd cards and wants to use them...

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 6 лет назад +104

      I'm imagining a bad late-nite infomercial. "You have SO MANY Transflash cards lying around! They're EVERYWHERE! What can you POSSIBLY do with all of them? Well, now there's a great new product..."

    • @jkazos
      @jkazos 6 лет назад +11

      It looks like it's great for a backup drive because that requires no random-access performance and you can get ten not-great-capacity cards super cheap. Makes the resilience irrelevant too. So it's crap as a hard drive but it is nice for one thing. I might even get it.

    • @tz496
      @tz496 6 лет назад +6

      I'd dare say resillience isn't irrelevant, since the device employs a raid0-tactic any failure in a single sd card results in all data (likely) being gone.

    • @cjallen233
      @cjallen233 6 лет назад +8

      I work at a cellphone company, we get sd cards that customers left in their phones when they traded em in or returned their phones all the time, we usually just throw them out, I have a whole drawer full of them.

    • @Elliandr
      @Elliandr 6 лет назад

      I use an internal multi card reader in my desktop to run multiple sd cards at once for just that reason. For me they take the place of floppies. Of course, I wouldn't be able to hold a big file without a RAID configuration.

  • @CoryRayGordonMusic
    @CoryRayGordonMusic 4 года назад +12

    Thank you Linus tech for simply taking ads out of your videos and manually adding your own ads. It's actually funny and I love the personalized experience.

  • @harleyspeedthrust4013
    @harleyspeedthrust4013 3 года назад +13

    I've designed an SD controller on an FPGA, so I've read the SD spec. The UHS-1 thing isn't an issue because UHS-1 cards still support all the slower modes. The board just doesn't support the faster UHS-1, so the cards aren't being used at their full potential

  • @hunterkillerii1483
    @hunterkillerii1483 6 лет назад +419

    5:15 - "I'm coming into this with literally no expectations whatsoever"
    5:38 - "Performance is actually.....better than I expected"
    "No expectations"

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 6 лет назад +5

      The funny about "no expectations" now-a-days, is that means you are in some deep shit, because typically you expect what you buy to work.

    • @yezzir6069
      @yezzir6069 6 лет назад +17

      Expect the unexpected with no expectations

    • @Baka_Oppai
      @Baka_Oppai 6 лет назад +3

      Hey man, what's that book you're reading? "*Great Expectations*" I read it, not what I expected.

    • @333dae
      @333dae 6 лет назад +8

      i mean he expected nothing, and he got something, so... it's better than expected?

    • @akshatkumar4248
      @akshatkumar4248 6 лет назад

      Hunter Killer II iigg

  • @cgifrog
    @cgifrog 6 лет назад +185

    Linus, let me send you my laptop's hardrive and you will never call anything slow again.

    • @houghwhite411
      @houghwhite411 6 лет назад +22

      Buy a new one, your's is dying

    • @texasdeeslinglead2401
      @texasdeeslinglead2401 6 лет назад +9

      CGFrog cuz, I just let my 8year old and four year old tear down our old and very faithful single core celeron base 1.5 gig of ram , billy goat of a computer. That old clunker would surf the net slower than Snell mail. It thought AOL dial up CD's were going too fast. And lord forbid you try looking at ............
      You get the top half of a pic about five minutes before the important parts down below.

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 6 лет назад +1

      Is that a meme? Or is it soon to be a meme? Google only finds dying pet results hahah

    • @lakestones9266
      @lakestones9266 6 лет назад +4

      Buy a new one, your’s is dying

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 6 лет назад +4

      Buy a new meme, this one died. Or did it!? *dun dun dun*

  • @JacobGorny
    @JacobGorny 4 года назад +17

    These are getting used to rebuild high capacity classic iPods with up to 1tb storage.

    • @Funkteon
      @Funkteon 3 года назад +3

      @DankPods ftw...

  • @quartarkpersonal
    @quartarkpersonal 4 года назад +7

    It probably exists so that you could manage files from many raspberry pis. If not then it is pretty cool decorative storage.

  • @ANNHIRODAIOH
    @ANNHIRODAIOH 5 лет назад +467

    He should use 10 1 TB sd Cards
    to get a 10 TB SDSSD

    • @od3stroyer771
      @od3stroyer771 5 лет назад +14

      Radictor *512 GB

    • @Bidwellz9
      @Bidwellz9 5 лет назад +36

      @@od3stroyer771 sandisk has a 1tb card

    • @thefountainpendesk
      @thefountainpendesk 4 года назад +16

      Shadow Fall NEVER USE WISH FOR THAT STUFF

    • @MrSaid197
      @MrSaid197 4 года назад +1

      ANNHIRO DAIOH still it depends on reading and writing speeds of sd cards

    • @Noooo23523
      @Noooo23523 4 года назад +1

      sandisk i heard has 1tb sd,kingston made 1tb usbs some years and and now has 2tb usbs

  • @vsinstinct4405
    @vsinstinct4405 5 лет назад +78

    When he says "I'm literally doing this with no expectations" and later says "the performance is better than I expected"😂

    • @mihirmutalikdesai
      @mihirmutalikdesai 4 года назад +9

      He had zero expectations, so when the performance was above zero, it was technically better than his expectations.

    • @AshanSanjula
      @AshanSanjula 3 года назад +2

      @@mihirmutalikdesai nOiCe 😄

  • @Haffmatthew
    @Haffmatthew Год назад +8

    I would like to see a similar product review or project build of a PC HDD/SSD made out of something absurd like cassette tape, VHS tape, or something similar

    • @addo9697
      @addo9697 Год назад

      go chec action retro he literally ran a site off of 30 floppy disks raided 0

  • @killmepls7865
    @killmepls7865 4 года назад +93

    "Drive letter k because its special" Linus is a ketamine head confirmed?

  • @deepkag
    @deepkag 6 лет назад +94

    Linus: The board has 10 slots and I have 10 cards and I'm gonna put them in sequence

    • @CaffeinatedTech
      @CaffeinatedTech 6 лет назад +6

      Yeah I guess sometimes the logic part of your brain just turns off.

    • @TheBaldr
      @TheBaldr 6 лет назад +7

      Well it a good skill to practice, especially when working with this type of technology. The moment you start thinking your doing things correctly and taking short-cuts, may end up into headache territory later.

  • @Ironwr0ught
    @Ironwr0ught 5 лет назад +428

    SOMEONE ALERT HOLLYWOOD! You could use this to send sensitive information offline. If you send the micro SSDs seperatly, someone would have to intercept all of them to get the world changing data stored within.

    • @mematron
      @mematron 5 лет назад +50

      The real question is, why you ignored spellcheck.

    • @mikaerek1044
      @mikaerek1044 5 лет назад +60

      @@mematron booooo

    • @GanzBestimmt
      @GanzBestimmt 5 лет назад +76

      Exact my thought. Perfect as encrypting device. Only one card missing and your data is safe. PogChamp

    • @Gigatechi7
      @Gigatechi7 5 лет назад +38

      And put all the mico sd card back in their original positions on the board as it's raid 0

    • @lucywucyyy
      @lucywucyyy 5 лет назад +10

      could just use normal encryption

  • @jimmerseiber
    @jimmerseiber Год назад +11

    Honestly now with the 1tb cards out.. this isnt so crazy to me.

  • @ratheonhudson3311
    @ratheonhudson3311 4 года назад +8

    "Drive Letter K... Because it's special" that cracked me up. Thank you, I needed this

    • @erkinalp
      @erkinalp 3 года назад

      it stands for kludge

  • @spreadcomunism8893
    @spreadcomunism8893 6 лет назад +33

    *INSTALLING WINDOWS ON THE DRIVE SINCE HOURS*
    disconnect the drive like nothing happened

    • @alexatkin
      @alexatkin 6 лет назад +2

      Not really any better, sudden power loss during a write to flash memory can trash it.

    • @TheAdatto
      @TheAdatto 6 лет назад

      30mins so who cares

  • @Classicold
    @Classicold 6 лет назад +603

    0/10 No RGB

    • @crowinatree8426
      @crowinatree8426 6 лет назад +8

      I think that makes it 1000/10 for not having it lol

    • @CaveyMoth
      @CaveyMoth 6 лет назад +2

      Forget RGB..we have SD! It's like RGB, except dark and extremely slow.

    • @Alan_is_here
      @Alan_is_here 6 лет назад +1

      Stfu

    • @WingofTech
      @WingofTech 6 лет назад +1

      RGB = better random read/write speeds? xP

    • @eshay6132
      @eshay6132 6 лет назад +1

      does not matter buy led strips off ebay and bam rgb

  • @slanguagefreak2388
    @slanguagefreak2388 3 года назад

    A DIY version of this would be awesome because I have a ton of random sd cards lying around from phones goping back 10 years. I often use them to root old phones but I would like other uses for it too.

  • @Erkandanote
    @Erkandanote 3 года назад +1

    Advertiser: so how many ads do you want to take?
    Him: yes

  • @n00b1n4t0r
    @n00b1n4t0r 6 лет назад +114

    Linus you disappoint me mate! The least I expected from you was to order 2 of those babies and then RAID 0 them for a RAIDception......

    • @darkSorceror
      @darkSorceror 6 лет назад +10

      Sure you can. It just looks like a normal SATA drive to the OS, so ordering two and RAID-0ing them together will net you a massive 1MB/s random write time!

    • @n00b1n4t0r
      @n00b1n4t0r 6 лет назад +2

      You need no special driver. Most motherboards have a built-in RAID controller so you could use that. And each SD Frankencard is recognised as a normal SATA drive. darkSorceror said it all :) (don't get me wrong, perfomance would suck, I suggested it just for the fun of it)

    • @darkSorceror
      @darkSorceror 6 лет назад +1

      Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong. The PCB does have a RAID-0 controller between the 10 SD card slots, but it is fully self-contained, with no drivers required or likely even possible. The unit as a whole connects only by SATA, and is therefore managed by whatever SATA/AHCI/RAID controller you plug it into.
      Unless the drive has proprietary commands over ATA protocol, the performance Linus got out of it is as good as it will get. And even then, those proprietary commands would make OS and application compatibility a nightmare, unless the driver itself is translating standard commands to the special "make it work fast" commands, which defeats the purpose altogether.

    • @darkSorceror
      @darkSorceror 6 лет назад

      And that is why you're wrong. There is no RAID controller visible to the PC here. There's nothing to run a driver for. It's not possible if it's ATA standard.

    • @darkSorceror
      @darkSorceror 6 лет назад

      There is no RAID controller driver running here. As far as the PC is concerned, it's a single disk.

  • @winterhaze3061
    @winterhaze3061 6 лет назад +258

    Your "ssd" is slower than my sata 2 harddrive lol

    • @revanonarsi579
      @revanonarsi579 6 лет назад +23

      Oof

    • @Mini-ud1dc
      @Mini-ud1dc 6 лет назад +30

      It's 2x slower then my IDE drive lol

    • @uploaded113redone
      @uploaded113redone 6 лет назад +17

      it's 2x slower than my makeshift CD-RW hard drive , lol

    • @CODA96
      @CODA96 6 лет назад +15

      +Revan Onarsi
      Why does everyone say ''Oof'' recently?!

    • @Mini-ud1dc
      @Mini-ud1dc 6 лет назад +10

      It's meme that came from roblox.

  • @rgbok5453
    @rgbok5453 4 года назад +7

    we must find a way to harness the energy from his hands and facial expressions. we can have sustainable power for years.

  • @hat1324
    @hat1324 3 года назад +1

    Now I want to see one of these with a high end controller that runs in RAID 1. Fully redundant SSD with hotswappable NAND flash

  • @zhenfeng3463
    @zhenfeng3463 6 лет назад +267

    SSD=some sds

  • @ManulTheCat
    @ManulTheCat 6 лет назад +64

    Soon Linus will have a full DIY pc which he may finally drop

    • @VibeSensational
      @VibeSensational 6 лет назад

      ManulTheCat
      So.. building a PC? Lol

    • @asaakirasdarudesandstorm4859
      @asaakirasdarudesandstorm4859 6 лет назад

      Hey man, nice picture you have there, what a handsome cat.

    • @willkessner2674
      @willkessner2674 6 лет назад

      AsaAkirasDarudeSandstorm what about mine

    • @ManulTheCat
      @ManulTheCat 6 лет назад

      A twin! Now neither of us will be virgins!

    • @morpheas768
      @morpheas768 6 лет назад +1

      Technically, building a new PC from parts is a DIY process, so Linus has done that countless times already.

  • @mr.random7370
    @mr.random7370 3 года назад +3

    Linus: I expect nothing.
    Also Linus: It's better than what I expected.

  • @tinkot
    @tinkot 4 года назад +2

    What's next, micro SD card to ram adapter? That would be an interesting experiment, I have too many 512mb cards from stone age

  • @nemrozosuspam
    @nemrozosuspam 6 лет назад +275

    What the fuck is next... making an 80 core cpu with tiny cpus???

    • @canaconn2388
      @canaconn2388 6 лет назад +7

      Nemroz 80 core cpu with 10 cpus

    • @michaeljameson3339
      @michaeljameson3339 6 лет назад +3

      Nemroz I'd like to see it done with a ton of ARM7's

    • @laharl2k
      @laharl2k 6 лет назад +4

      voltare2amstereo
      That already exists in arm cpus. I think it had something to do with the rasberry pi, but i recall it was a atx sidez board full of tiny arm chips with heatsinks in a grid on both sides i think. It was a cluster in a board so they all had to boot from the network which was hardwired in the board itself

    • @deltadom33
      @deltadom33 6 лет назад +5

      That would be called a server

    • @LT7Racing
      @LT7Racing 6 лет назад +1

      Lga 1567

  • @A10Eiro
    @A10Eiro 6 лет назад +42

    This "SSD" has the best safety measure! You go to work and take out one of the SD cards, so your wife can't check on 1TB of "collected movies" :D **suspicious thumbs up**

    • @maxxlr8tion578
      @maxxlr8tion578 6 лет назад +12

      What happens when the wife swaps two random sd card positions while your at work o.O

    • @AndreasElf
      @AndreasElf 6 лет назад +2

      Frustration

    • @polentusmax6100
      @polentusmax6100 6 лет назад +1

      Ateneiro good use for the word wife in a phrase, people in this channel are unfamiliar with that

    • @tin2001
      @tin2001 6 лет назад +2

      If it uses any common RAID techniques, swapping cards shouldn't change anything. The controller will figure it out.
      That said, they might have skipped that feature to save complexity in the controller. If it runs RAID0 only, then they might not care about data integrity.

    • @A10Eiro
      @A10Eiro 6 лет назад

      I really love how people who understand this start to stick their noses into it and start their "what if"s :D
      as mentioned swapping may not help her, but she can also take a bite (SD card) for herself :D on the other hand this requires some knowledge as to where does the cable from the monitor go to and so on :D this is not an insult, this is my experience with majority with women :)

  • @curvingfyre6810
    @curvingfyre6810 3 года назад +1

    Would be curious to see what it would look like if you got a bunch of cheap usb msd readers into a case, put them all together on a decent usb 3 hub controller, and converted that to sata. Could be way more viable with up to date card speeds, flash quality, and usb 3 standard transfers, as well as the additional pins that are standard now.

  • @phookadude
    @phookadude 4 года назад

    It's perfect for secure transfer of physical media. You scramble the order of the microSDs and ship them in a couple of different packages. You get 10 tb of data that cant be read unless you have all the SDs and know the order they fit in with few million combinations.

  • @athews1976
    @athews1976 5 лет назад +7

    These types of videos are actually a great idea. People like me do want to see impractical things like that in action. It give you some good nuance, intuition, and context for where technology is these days and how some types of hardware are performing in relative contexts as it relates to the way some things have worked in the past. Keep on doing these types of videos. 👍

  • @Silver0Crow
    @Silver0Crow 6 лет назад +186

    Why do you care about order of putting them? You have 10 cards there is 10 slots, power is off... so screw the order! #Anarchy

    • @yovomanolov96
      @yovomanolov96 6 лет назад +6

      On point hahaha

    • @hellterminator
      @hellterminator 6 лет назад +13

      Not to mention the instructions don't even say anything about order of insertion. There's just a list of slots that should be populated.

    • @Kurumisama
      @Kurumisama 6 лет назад +5

      Turbulencje exactly, the order only matters if you aren't filling all the slots

    • @open-rhythm
      @open-rhythm 5 лет назад

      James, I'm not accepting what you said. Autism has nothing to do with how he operated. If your going to say otherwise, Prove it first.

    • @adeep187
      @adeep187 5 лет назад

      I was thinking that lol

  • @julas23
    @julas23 4 года назад

    The first time I saw this adapter board, I planned to use two of it with ten 2 TB Micro SD Card each one and get those to use in a NAS as Storage with 20Tb Raid 1.

  • @jadeasereht4638
    @jadeasereht4638 3 года назад +5

    The space of an SSD for the speed of an hdd

    • @akale2620
      @akale2620 3 года назад

      Less hana montana, more miley

  • @dab88
    @dab88 6 лет назад +99

    knowing SD cards I can imagine the reliability on this is... not great

    • @psionx1
      @psionx1 6 лет назад +3

      the number of writes is lower but SD cards can hold data far longer then an ssd.

    • @TheEnragedGamer
      @TheEnragedGamer 6 лет назад +1

      lasest2 that's probably why one of my sd cards failed then

    • @aryudsoh
      @aryudsoh 6 лет назад

      I've had a bunch fail but I do tend to drop my phone from time to time.

  • @Onnethox
    @Onnethox 6 лет назад +750

    How would it perform watercooled tho?

    • @nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932
      @nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932 6 лет назад +23

      NAND performs better when a bit warm. The controller is the only part that needs cooling. And according to Linus, the controller on that thing is crap anyway, so cooling it wouldn't help it much.

    • @RunV5
      @RunV5 6 лет назад +43

      it was a joke Nmotsch

    • @bassbeardiful
      @bassbeardiful 6 лет назад +6

      I both hate and love this comment ha!

    • @NoNamenoonehere
      @NoNamenoonehere 6 лет назад

      Why ? Oh just for the lols...maybe tiny bit better but immeasurable

    • @johannesmuller1288
      @johannesmuller1288 6 лет назад +3

      g g yea rgb would boost about 200 gb a Second

  • @nofiojames7262
    @nofiojames7262 4 года назад +1

    Well you can write it to span the data over the number of so cards for a manual gig saw encryption

  • @iXenox
    @iXenox 4 года назад +40

    Linux: ''That's quality''
    Me:''Slav engineering...''

  • @-_unknownlegend_-7627
    @-_unknownlegend_-7627 5 лет назад +148

    The SD cards cost more than the SSD, something you don't see everyday

    • @karlanthonymargate7362
      @karlanthonymargate7362 4 года назад +11

      Not if you already have a bunch of them laying around

    • @East445
      @East445 4 года назад +1

      Karl Anthony Margate good point but still

    • @erkinalp
      @erkinalp 3 года назад

      Not in Turkey, where SD cards are in surplus and SSDs are in shortage.

  • @KOrbiid
    @KOrbiid 6 лет назад +191

    Easy solution for the Raid 0 problem. Just use two of them in Raid 1!

    • @MikeTheMicless
      @MikeTheMicless 6 лет назад +11

      KOrbiid
      "Mind blown"
      Raid-ception!

    • @JeffreyBoles
      @JeffreyBoles 6 лет назад +5

      Easy solution, but an expensive one.

    • @Moibhin
      @Moibhin 6 лет назад +6

      Raid 10**

    • @commanderoof4578
      @commanderoof4578 6 лет назад +6

      I want hdd manufactures to make their bloody drives faster!!!!!!!!!
      Simple to most hdds have 4 platters and can be read from both sides so 8 readable sides.
      So i want an internal raid 10 4 sides is for raid 1 and 2 lots of 4 platters for the raid 0
      So 4x read performance forth the capacity
      I would rather a 400mb’s 500gb hdd than a 560mb’s ssd because you would save about £40 per drive meaning for every 2 500gb ssds you could get 3 hdd. And when your like me and use raid 1 you would get more speed and a third more space for the same price

    • @newhalo123
      @newhalo123 6 лет назад +6

      I heard you like RAID, so I put some RAID inside your RAID.

  • @78MatWar87
    @78MatWar87 Год назад

    idk why this poped up AGAIN in my feed 5 years later but i wonder how well this would work today with how much better these SD Cards are today. assuming it would even work with them.

  • @marlonmangubat4146
    @marlonmangubat4146 3 года назад +1

    Well, I tried one and as far as I can say this definitely works faster than my HDD drive. A practical use I can see if that if you need to upgrade storage space for your hard drive, you can just buy a higher capacity memory card for less price. I went from 64 GB to 128 GB and paid less, plus I can still use the two 32 GB cards replaced for other things like mobile phones. Also, this will eliminate the need to discard the old drive since I can re-use it on other devices. Also, my crystaldiskmark scores are better than the ones shown on the video, though I will still need to figure a way to post the screenshot here.

  • @dr.zombie2864
    @dr.zombie2864 6 лет назад +320

    Why not try it with non UHS-1 cards? It could be better...

    • @MatthijsvanDuin
      @MatthijsvanDuin 6 лет назад +60

      Uh, no. UHS-I cards are required to support legacy bus modes (3.3V, up to 50 MHz) in addition to the UHS-I modes (1.8V, up to 208 MHz). "Do NOT support UHS-I" doesn't mean "we don't support UHS-I cards", it means "we don't support UHS-I bus modes, only the crappy legacy modes".

    • @raphaelcharlespinon
      @raphaelcharlespinon 6 лет назад +40

      I agree, however, the creators did put that warning up for a reason. I think it's worth a try.

    • @Jax10n
      @Jax10n 6 лет назад +17

      I'm guessing the reason is to deflect people from buying UHS-1 cards and not getting the benefits you'd expect from UHS-1

    • @ultraderek
      @ultraderek 6 лет назад +18

      Just because there is backward compatibility doesn’t mean it would be optimized to their system. Especially when it says “do not use this type of memory”.

    • @HueMongus101
      @HueMongus101 6 лет назад +3

      There have been a lot of tests done on this "drive". The "drive" controller is bad. Lots of negative reviews. This able to be purchased on Amazon, aliexpress, eBay to name a few. Look at online reviews

  • @AlgolZ
    @AlgolZ 6 лет назад +171

    But is it VR READY?

    • @dimii27
      @dimii27 6 лет назад +2

      Algol Yes.

    • @TravelWithCesarin
      @TravelWithCesarin 6 лет назад +8

      needs RGB too.

    • @NJDRJ
      @NJDRJ 6 лет назад +3

      Algol also 4k Ready at a whopping 1/2 frame per minute

    • @johndripper
      @johndripper 6 лет назад +2

      Or can it play crisis lmfao

    • @n00b1n4t0r
      @n00b1n4t0r 6 лет назад +3

      VR READY but no RGB :(

  • @curvingfyre6810
    @curvingfyre6810 3 года назад +1

    Would be nice to see a fully modernized version of this technology for mass upgradeable storage. Something to take advantage of those 1 and 2 TB micro SSDs. Can you imagine having that much discrete internal flash storage available at all times?

    • @curvingfyre6810
      @curvingfyre6810 3 года назад +1

      Performance on it wouldn't be great, but arguably it could serve the same function of having a huge spacious freight train of an HDD in your otherwise modern rig, so long as it was designed to be resistant to data loss from failed cards, and also meant to run softer on the cards, especially since the cards themselves are faster these days and don't need to be pushed that hard. And that's up to TWENTY TERABYTES OF MODULAR UPGRADEABLE STORAGE ON A SINGLE PORT, before you've even considered building a larger chip for the modernized version.

  • @TinaMinna290
    @TinaMinna290 4 года назад +11

    6:56 Me struggling through college

  • @nullwii
    @nullwii 5 лет назад +357

    I have.... so many 2GB micro sd cards... i am totally doing this LMAO

    • @kuasocto3528
      @kuasocto3528 5 лет назад +90

      You can get a 20GB drive with them!

    • @cherryfx8239
      @cherryfx8239 5 лет назад +85

      @@kuasocto3528 And then put 2 20gb drives together in a raid 0 again so you get a 40gb drive.

    • @Thecollector901
      @Thecollector901 5 лет назад

      oooo la la

    • @ganeshpappala9055
      @ganeshpappala9055 5 лет назад +4

      I want one SD card

    • @diegogarcia4255
      @diegogarcia4255 5 лет назад +9

      @@cherryfx8239 Make a raid 10!!!

  • @lamebubblesflysohigh
    @lamebubblesflysohigh 6 лет назад +73

    Step 1: get top secrets from Area 51
    Step 2: save them on this and label all cards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
    Step 3: hide them all over the world
    Step 4: go to Ecuadorian embasy
    Step 5: tell everyone what is on them
    Step 6: be forever remembered as someone who gave world the most epic geocaching adventure ever

    • @devilwarriors5164
      @devilwarriors5164 6 лет назад +2

      If I was the company that made those useless card I would do that but with an alleged million dollars price. Then tada.. Ton of people buying them to be ready when they found all the cards

    • @SleepLessThan3
      @SleepLessThan3 6 лет назад +3

      devilwarriors what is this, the dragon balls?

    • @subirmajumdar4493
      @subirmajumdar4493 6 лет назад

      Now thats the best 6-step innovation I saw the entire week. Cheers

    • @mrhayhurst
      @mrhayhurst 6 лет назад

      lamebubblesflysohigh ahh! That’s what I was thinking... except random people all get it from all over the world:
      1- they meet up at the coordinates they found in one of the files
      2- they arrive and a man was paid to collect the SD cards on a certain day, when all of them arrive
      3- each card had a portion of the data for one video- an old man leaves his fortune to whoever can survive a battle royale between them

  • @ShaggyMummy
    @ShaggyMummy 8 месяцев назад

    Id love to see a revisit of this, with newer $100 1tb Micro SD cards

  • @HelamanGile
    @HelamanGile 2 года назад +1

    It's great when you have lots of cameras and you want to pull the data off

  • @memyselfandi6422
    @memyselfandi6422 6 лет назад +9

    8:10 "and you know what else is cool ?"
    That would have been a good intro for an Air Conditioner advertisement.

  • @TechDunk
    @TechDunk 6 лет назад +10

    So it doesn't support 6 sd cards, but doesn't not support 6 sd cards

  • @austenfairbanks5604
    @austenfairbanks5604 3 года назад

    If this did work well, this would be a dope idea if you were building a pc on a small budget and you could get a sd card and always add more later.

  • @SegmentW
    @SegmentW 3 года назад +4

    I love Anthony's reaction to "special k drive"

  • @domsau2
    @domsau2 6 лет назад +481

    Is it *legal* to have such a big screen?

    • @brndto
      @brndto 5 лет назад +74

      No its *illegal* in about 38 states of America, southern parts of Ukraine, NSW & ACT Australia, 13 European countries but only frowned upon in Canada. New Zealand has no restrictions though.

    • @wahyuprakoso1
      @wahyuprakoso1 5 лет назад +10

      Uuugh . Why is it illegal ? Kinda dumb law

    • @liamlawson4653
      @liamlawson4653 5 лет назад

      I think not.

    • @thechosennuke
      @thechosennuke 5 лет назад +3

      Lol its an LG SmartTV mounted on a wall

    • @profithunter777
      @profithunter777 5 лет назад +5

      I hope this question is a joke

  • @thelegalsystem
    @thelegalsystem 6 лет назад +26

    this product sounds fun, it definitely exists for people like me who happen to have a dozen extra micro SD cards from over the years. combining all those shitty, small SD cards into one larger drive actually sounds appealing, since I have no use for all these 4 and 8 gb micro SD cards anyway.

    • @post-leftluddite
      @post-leftluddite 6 лет назад +1

      No These sata to micro sd adapters have been around for at least 15 years, and the whole reason they existed is because they were created BEFORE Sata SSDs became mainstream, that's why it makes no sense to linus, because you're taking a 15 year old product that is obsolete now and incorrectly imagining it's new or something..... They weren't made recently or for people with a "bunch of micro sd cards hanging around"

    • @mr_biscuit
      @mr_biscuit 6 лет назад +5

      512 mb sd cars for the win....

  • @TheDustin151
    @TheDustin151 4 года назад +2

    These only make sense when replacing the hard drive in your iPod classic.

  • @valveman12
    @valveman12 4 года назад

    I have not seen one but I would like to see a SATA to UHS-2 adapter that holds just one Micro UHS-2 card. I bet it would perform very well and could be used as the main drive.

  • @chazcollabs9536
    @chazcollabs9536 6 лет назад +529

    You can turn an SD card into an SSD, all you need to do is add an extra S at the front.

  • @prabhatpandey9948
    @prabhatpandey9948 6 лет назад +13

    the sequence to insert sd card applies only if you will be using 8 or less sd cards otherwise you can just fill up all the slots irrelevant of any sequence.

  • @jonmoreno3048
    @jonmoreno3048 4 года назад +2

    I think its meant to be used with ReadyBoost on older computers with HDD's.

  • @General1Cal
    @General1Cal 4 года назад

    This was made prior to the advent of ssd drives and it was also the cheapest option as the first ssd when do expensive.

  • @UNSTOPABLE40XBOX
    @UNSTOPABLE40XBOX 6 лет назад +435

    I have seen this product before on google I just never thought it worked.

    • @alexatkin
      @alexatkin 6 лет назад +20

      Quack products usually DO work, just not in any useful fashion.

    • @deepfried4185
      @deepfried4185 6 лет назад

      UNSTOPABLE40 congratulations want a 🍪

    • @Jacobt844
      @Jacobt844 6 лет назад +5

      we all thought the same thing about the $1,000 HDMI cable

    • @spyersecol0013
      @spyersecol0013 6 лет назад +2

      Thank you for taking the bullet on that one. I always wanted to know how this would work.

    • @theflobby2518
      @theflobby2518 6 лет назад +1

      on GOOGLE? or the internet.

  • @social3ngin33rin
    @social3ngin33rin 6 лет назад +88

    @Linus it say, "do not support."
    Not, "does not support."
    They are telling us not to support that evil memory type

    • @flowtnarg
      @flowtnarg 6 лет назад

      Once you put your top secret data on this hard drive you can take it apart/ or assemble it like a puzzle. ;)

  • @l-boi3004
    @l-boi3004 2 года назад

    This seems like the kind of item you'd find jerry riged in a post apocolyse scenario, where you need to get to a working rig, in a sidequest to get through an old storage facility

  • @sabinbaral4132
    @sabinbaral4132 4 года назад

    I thoughts we are doing some soldering but this man just put a card into a slot and writes we made an SSD this is a pure scan man

  • @SupraBdub
    @SupraBdub 5 лет назад +18

    If someone has a bunch (ten or more) of micro SD cards around and is playing around with PC building then this will fit. Thanks Linus good video as usual!

  • @Candy-uo8sv
    @Candy-uo8sv 6 лет назад +120

    Maybe its slow Because u used the wrong sd cart type

    • @MrPaxio
      @MrPaxio 6 лет назад +6

      well linus needed to spank this video out in one sitting so I guess the ssd is faster than him.

    • @JoshuaRichards2010
      @JoshuaRichards2010 6 лет назад +27

      No. Does not support UHS-1 means it falls back to slower speed. Like plugging USB 3.0 device into USB 2.0 slot, it just drops speed and goes (slowly). +LinusTechTips should have figured that one out. ;p

    • @jmwintenn
      @jmwintenn 6 лет назад +18

      lol, i thought you were calling him a faggot. "jeez fella,no need for tha....oh."

    • @nickrr3626
      @nickrr3626 6 лет назад +2

      Yeah, we need another test...

    • @MatthijsvanDuin
      @MatthijsvanDuin 6 лет назад +1

      UHS-I cards are required to support legacy bus modes (3.3V, up to 50 MHz) in addition to the UHS-I modes (1.8V, up to 208 MHz). "Do NOT support UHS-I" doesn't mean "we don't support UHS-I cards", it means "we don't support UHS-I bus modes, only the crappy legacy modes".

  • @SableSix
    @SableSix 3 года назад

    I have zero expectations….*2 minutes later*…it performed better than expected! 😂😂😂

  • @MrDaAsif
    @MrDaAsif 4 года назад

    I have lots of old SD cards lying around, wish I could make use of them

  • @tylerweigand8875
    @tylerweigand8875 6 лет назад +7

    The performance reminds me of the low end jmicron controller based ssds from close to a decade ago

  • @TheDumb12
    @TheDumb12 6 лет назад +7

    *sees title*
    Linus, no, we've talked about this

  • @d0nKsTaH
    @d0nKsTaH 2 года назад

    this product seems like its really designed for people who have a lot of SSD cards laying around already and who want to put them to use somehow.
    This might run like a champ on some older machines... or even emulation stations..

  • @Cart1416
    @Cart1416 10 месяцев назад +2

    watching this while unboxing a micro sd card from micro center

  • @sl9sl9
    @sl9sl9 6 лет назад +35

    This thing depends entirely on the (RAID?) controller on the card like SSD's do, as well as the controllers built into the individual micro-SD cards - that all together will govern how fast the whole thing is. And these are being sold for cheap on eBay so the controller on the card won't be great, which is bourne out by the benchmarks in this video and the lack of UHS-1 support... Still, interesting topic for a RUclips video!

    • @FactoryofRedstone
      @FactoryofRedstone 5 лет назад +2

      Would be funny to have that thing run in raid 6. So you could have an ssd with an internal failsafe

    • @stevethea5250
      @stevethea5250 5 лет назад

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    • @FactoryofRedstone
      @FactoryofRedstone 5 лет назад

      @@stevethea5250 Australia is a bit far though.

  • @Drips-kh9vw
    @Drips-kh9vw 6 лет назад +21

    We need that thing for DDR 4 RAM

  • @robmarrin6720
    @robmarrin6720 4 года назад

    Also they don't work in dvr cctv,, when it over populates the drive to the point where the oldest data is supposed to be overwritten it can't for some reason 🤔👍

  • @jacesullivan4563
    @jacesullivan4563 2 года назад

    you should revisit this product but try to set up a bunch of different linux VM's for it

  • @ethanrake4929
    @ethanrake4929 6 лет назад +35

    I guess you could call it an Sdssd. (Awkward Silence)

    • @ArkinesVT
      @ArkinesVT 6 лет назад

      Barely A Parody i get it

    • @aussieguy1012
      @aussieguy1012 6 лет назад +2

      Suprise linus didnt say that.Thats their idea of humour.

  • @peppy7101
    @peppy7101 6 лет назад +75

    a DIY SSD made of DIY SSD's made of SD cards

    • @pureburntt88
      @pureburntt88 5 лет назад +1

      Diy hdd made of diy ssds made of diy ssds made of 1tb sd cards

  • @lorenzrainer2802
    @lorenzrainer2802 3 года назад

    You could fill it up with some sd cards you have lying around and hook it up to a sata to usb Adapter to make an external hard drive

  • @Kennephone
    @Kennephone Год назад

    just looks like something to mess around with and have fun.