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[@SuperSmashDolls]

"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]

Yup, backwards compatibility.

[@ruhnet]

+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]

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

[@meinnase]

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]

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

[@hampoon]

Next vid: Making an HDD with CDs

[@osbornanders]

CD-RW )))

[@TotallyNotJason101]

WOW D:

[@allenjoshua7692]

hahahahahahahahahahaahahahhhhahahhahah

[@welli_de_brasilianer7041]

hahahha

[@MrDegsy69]

Hampoon Chaz next video: making an HDD drive from 5.25" floppy discs! 😂😂😂

[@phillipzx3754]

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

[@elijahking7309]

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

[@mitchbogart8094]

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]

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]

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

[@seyyadqurbano844]

@@mitchbogart8094 bed

[@wreck-itralph938]

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

[@brotnjanin]

*Super-Solid State Drive*

[@sorry_Im_stupid_but]

@@brotnjanin same thinking lol

[@joshuahadams]

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

[@pizzoo]

SSSD Made of SSDs made of SDs

[@polski_dezerter]

@@pizzoo ah yes an underrated comment

[@prithvirajdj]

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

[@-WarCriminal-22]

WD SSD's are overpriced, lmao

[@livinglifeform7974]

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

[@Tsino69]

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

[@hampoon]

Prithvi Raj Because Kingston supplied the SD cards for him.

[@nikhilpaleti3872]

Sad King noises

[@snazzy]

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

[@pogchamp4542]

Snazzy Labs yep typical Linus tech tips content

[@xander1052]

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]

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

[@smcfadden1992]

What if you run them in raid?

[@mazimilianoaure7791]

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

[@LoganT547]

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

[@ZaHandle]

captain skeptical *Sweet home alabama*

[@justinstover5168]

i dont get it

[@tobiassander3995]

Mom'S SpaggheDdi?

[@vrajeshpc]

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

[@TheSabinator]

12 TERA BYTES

[@poured_treasures]

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

[@justinrobinson6965]

Only when you dont pay attention

[@Hipno702]

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

[@user-10021]

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]

I think my first hdd packed 21 mb.

[@romanomed7467]

Lasse Hjalmarsson I remember i had a 8 mb one

[@cezarcatalin1406]

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]

Okay Good luck convincing someone to make a PCB like that

[@cezarcatalin1406]

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

[@Ouski]

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]

not really

[@cyberspino6277]

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

[@slavb0i646]

@@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]

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

[@Ouski]

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

[@JmC023]

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]

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

[@Zack_Wester]

@@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]

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

[@SolidSonicTH]

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

[@akale2620]

Hey ooo

[@LEDtherebelight]

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

[@nayabwarach2713]

LEDtherebelight it works better than nothing (???)

[@JorgeMurio]

can't trust him anymore

[@SyukriLajin]

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

[@jaalan7896]

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

[@freevbucks8019]

Being a note 7 camouflaged as an ssd.

[@trentonpaul6376]

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

[@fetchstixRHD]

Well to be fair, it's technically true 🤔

[@MarioPL989]

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

[@DragonProtector]

yup lol

[@CaveyMoth]

Annihilate all expectations.

[@g00fysmiley]

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

[@CoryRayGordonMusic]

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.

[@intelchip_x86]

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

[@loop5720]

Now for the SSSD and SSSDD

[@itseasy1861]

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

[@I_am_a_greek_fis.]

Still no update....​@@itseasy1861

[@def_not_dan]

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]

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

[@def_not_dan]

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

[@gt20modding88]

Your hiding somewhere.

[@tyepowers5536]

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]

Take em all out and zap carry em

[@zedzedski7382]

Save money on Dollar Shave and buy a proper SSD

[@justcrimson.7584]

@MIF what

[@harleyspeedthrust4013]

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

[@killmepls7865]

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

[@-WarCriminal-22]

Kvas head confirmed 🤣

[@yt-sh]

Kellogg's® Special K®

[@Lousy_Bastard]

@@yt-sh Yes.

[@staffy35]

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

[@jasonblalock4429]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[@cgifrog]

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

[@houghwhite411]

Buy a new one, your's is dying

[@texasdeeslinglead2401]

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]

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

[@lakestones9266]

Buy a new one, your’s is dying

[@kindlin]

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

[@ratheonhudson3311]

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

[@erkinalp]

it stands for kludge

[@JacobGorny]

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

[@Funkteon]

@DankPods ftw...

[@ANNHIRODAIOH]

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

[@od3stroyer771]

Radictor *512 GB

[@Bidwellz9]

@@od3stroyer771 sandisk has a 1tb card

[@thefountainpendesk]

Shadow Fall NEVER USE WISH FOR THAT STUFF

[@MrSaid197]

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

[@Noooo23523]

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

[@hunterkillerii1483]

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

[@kindlin]

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]

Expect the unexpected with no expectations

[@Baka_Oppai]

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

[@333dae]

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

[@akshatkumar4248]

Hunter Killer II iigg

[@Haffmatthew]

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]

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

[@jimmerseiber]

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

[@vsinstinct4405]

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

[@mihirmutalikdesai]

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

[@AshanSanjula]

@@mihirmutalikdesai nOiCe 😄

[@ManulTheCat]

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

[@VibeSensational]

ManulTheCat So.. building a PC? Lol

[@asaakirasdarudesandstorm4859]

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

[@willkessner2674]

AsaAkirasDarudeSandstorm what about mine

[@ManulTheCat]

A twin! Now neither of us will be virgins!

[@morpheas768]

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

[@jadeasereht4638]

The space of an SSD for the speed of an hdd

[@akale2620]

Less hana montana, more miley

[@mr.random7370]

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

[@Ironwr0ught]

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]

The real question is, why you ignored spellcheck.

[@mikaerek1044]

@@mematron booooo

[@GanzBestimmt]

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

[@Gigatechi7]

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

[@lucywucyyy]

could just use normal encryption

[@deepkag]

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

[@CaffeinatedTech]

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

[@TheBaldr]

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.

[@tinkot]

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

[@amdintelxsniperx]

there is a a ddr to pci adapter lol

[@quartarkpersonal]

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

[@winterhaze3061]

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

[@revanonarsi579]

Oof

[@Mini-ud1dc]

It's 2x slower then my IDE drive lol

[@uploaded113redone]

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

[@CODA96]

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

[@Mini-ud1dc]

It's meme that came from roblox.

[@n00b1n4t0r]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@iXenox]

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

[@xornedge8204]

You know it

[@Erkandanote]

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

[@Silver0Crow]

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]

On point hahaha

[@hellterminator]

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]

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

[@open-rhythm]

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]

I was thinking that lol

[@nemrozosuspam]

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

[@canaconn2388]

Nemroz 80 core cpu with 10 cpus

[@michaeljameson3339]

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

[@laharl2k]

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]

That would be called a server

[@LT7Racing]

Lga 1567

[@rgbok5453]

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

[@slanguagefreak2388]

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.

[@zhenfeng3463]

SSD=some sds

[@athews1976]

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. 👍

[@30dimos]

I am from Greece, you are a great team to know there is a solution in the field of technology with different configurations, it is a good solution if it is worth it at some point I will do this because we buy something simple that is expensive

[@happysoul941]

Great topic, Linus! I like your honesty without mincing words. Please consider installing some white lights firing into the ceiling. The main video was very dull and low contrasty :)

[@-_unknownlegend_-7627]

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

[@karlanthonymargate7362]

Not if you already have a bunch of them laying around

[@East445]

Karl Anthony Margate good point but still

[@erkinalp]

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

[@spreadcomunism8893]

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

[@alexatkin]

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

[@TheAdatto]

30mins so who cares

[@Sijelo]

Linus: * joins several sd cards to form a ssd * My brain: POWER RANGERS, MORPH !!!!

[@akrambasha321]

There are 1TB Sd cards available now. Make a similar video with all the slots filled with 1TB Sd cards. IT WOLD BE DOPE 🔥

[@ubayedkabir6977]

So a 10tb ssd

[@KOrbiid]

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

[@MikeTheMicless]

KOrbiid "Mind blown" Raid-ception!

[@JeffreyBoles]

Easy solution, but an expensive one.

[@Moibhin]

Raid 10**

[@commanderoof4578]

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]

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

[@dab88]

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

[@psionx1]

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

[@TheEnragedGamer]

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

[@aryudsoh]

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

[@Kennephone]

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

[@SegmentW]

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

[@thelegalsystem]

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]

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]

512 mb sd cars for the win....

[@A10Eiro]

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]

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

[@AndreasElf]

Frustration

[@polentusmax6100]

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

[@tin2001]

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]

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 :)

[@Cart1416]

watching this while unboxing a micro sd card from micro center

[@brocktechnology]

Linus made a video about it, now it's purpose is fulfilled.

[@lamebubblesflysohigh]

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]

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]

devilwarriors what is this, the dragon balls?

[@subirmajumdar4493]

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

[@mrhayhurst]

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

[@chazcollabs9536]

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

[@edu.33]

...

[@abdulnourseddiki4749]

Exactly... And this 'S' stands for 'Stupidity'

[@suryaelektrikal1359]

Very Brilliant Idea bro...

[@tomi4717]

actually, i loved Chaz's comment.

[@gabrielghanem8253]

SSD card

[@ShaggyMummy]

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

[@HelamanGile]

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

[@Classicold]

0/10 No RGB

[@crowinatree8426]

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

[@CaveyMoth]

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

[@Alan_is_here]

Stfu

[@WingofTech]

RGB = better random read/write speeds? xP

[@eshay6132]

does not matter buy led strips off ebay and bam rgb

[@memyselfandi6422]

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

[@NiceTechAndGames]

there can't be a linus video without sponsors 😂🤣

[@peepo_chan6813]

*sponsors

[@TinaMinna290]

6:56 Me struggling through college

[@TechDunk]

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

[@nullwii]

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

[@kuasocto3528]

You can get a 20GB drive with them!

[@cherryfx8239]

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

[@Thecollector901]

oooo la la

[@ganeshpappala9055]

I want one SD card

[@diegogarcia4255]

@@cherryfx8239 Make a raid 10!!!

[@hat1324]

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

[@curvingfyre6810]

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]

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.

[@TheDumb12]

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

[@AlgolZ]

But is it VR READY?

[@dimii27]

Algol Yes.

[@TravelWithCesarin]

needs RGB too.

[@NJDRJ]

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

[@johndripper]

Or can it play crisis lmfao

[@n00b1n4t0r]

VR READY but no RGB :(

[@alteans]

You know why I subscribed? Cause you guys are true entrepreneurs like I was in my younger years back in the eighties.Willing to try sometimes in the face of certain failures no matter what. Linus reminds me of times...lol

[@ApeExample]

@R R you replied to a 2 year comment.

[@genexisvalte9360]

Linus, i like your presentation 😂😂😂

[@ironeo]

Don't ever stop killing it Linus .... Love your videos. God Bless !!!

[@social3ngin33rin]

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

[@flowtnarg]

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

[@s.gauthamsankar540]

Wow I was looking for this for years

[@XTR_NEELAN]

Mmn

[@sabinbaral4132]

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

[@Onnethox]

How would it perform watercooled tho?

[@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932]

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]

it was a joke Nmotsch

[@bassbeardiful]

I both hate and love this comment ha!

[@NoNamenoonehere]

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

[@johannesmuller1288]

g g yea rgb would boost about 200 gb a Second

[@CKTDanny]

It’s a pretty cool concept. Modularity ftw!

[@youtuberobbedmeofmyname]

too bad it doesnt make sense

[@ritesh6487]

SDG Danny I just calculated....for that price ($50*10=$500)...you can get a 2 tb SSD...on top of that its raid 0..so,pretty much doesnt make any sense.

[@Malandirix]

Except it's raid 0 so the modularity is far less useful.

[@jan_harald]

I'm not a fan of easy-to-screw-up storage but otherwise, sure... if it wasn't raid0 it might be a bit more useful, though, even slower

[@izicial7469]

Pretty dumb concept. Stupidity ftl!!!!!

[@l-boi3004]

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

[@smittyvanjagermanjenson182]

Seems like an apocalypse technology, daisy chaining a few SD cards together like that lol.

[@UNSTOPABLE40XBOX]

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

[@alexatkin]

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

[@deepfried4185]

UNSTOPABLE40 congratulations want a 🍪

[@Jacobt844]

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

[@spyersecol0013]

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

[@theflobby2518]

on GOOGLE? or the internet.

[@SupraBdub]

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!

[@thomastuttle5365]

I'm super late to this one but i died laughing to Anthony's reaction to "Special K Drive"

[@SableSix]

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

[@dr.zombie2864]

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

[@MatthijsvanDuin]

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]

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

[@Jax10n]

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]

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]

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

[@AWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA]

"I have no expectations." *minutes later* Its faster than I EXPECTED.

[@marlonmangubat4146]

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.

[@phookadude]

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.

[@peppy7101]

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

[@pureburntt88]

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

[@molotov2634]

YES! this is something cool, i have millions of micro SD in my shop, i can have some use for them now! Thank you.

[@RetroRobotRadio]

I love hacks like this.

[@julas23]

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.

[@bdr420i]

TEN 128GB SD cards 😍 I've never touched one in my life

[@solarisone1082]

I've owned one. Nothing particularly special about them.

[@jabkowy6107]

You've never touched because you don't need it :P

[@Elusive9T2RETRO]

@@jabkowy6107 my Nintendo switch begs to differ

[@cymaticCS]

Got one in my phone... According the manual of my LG X-Cam, it supports up to 2TB SD card lol... I've searched in amazon and I couldn't find one above 512MB... And that 512MB one was worth twice as much as my LG X-Cam...

[@declanhinshaw4791]

Should’ve used 10 512 gig micros

[@Bhartiya969]

Come on.. Its very useful to secure your data.. Just save your very important files on it.. Then shuffle the ssd cards.. No one ever figure out how to get access on it.. No need to do encrypt or decrypt no password, no software / hardware lock .. Whenever you want to access your data reinstall ssd on correct place. Make sure that you remember right order otherwise u have to play musical chairs with those cards unless you get correct order

[@DogsaladSalad]

Hamir Bharwad this is genius

[@elviejodann6544]

I´m gonna put 9 SD in place and the other one is gonna be in my mini-chest keychain Nobody is gonna erase my memes again

[@noka1979]

Hamir Bharwad brilliant

[@Rohankumar-dd2ss]

Biswajeet Singh 10!

[@garrettk7166]

Rohan kumar nope. Way more than that.

[@78MatWar87]

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.

[@iitzfizz]

beardless LTT promoting dollar shave club haha this is great