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Patriot 256GB A1 / V30 MicroSD Card 5-Pack $68.80 Delivered @ Patriot Memory AU via Amazon AU

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mskeggs on 12/10/2023 - 13:41 amazon.com.au (980 clicks)
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5 pack of cheap MicroSD. Cheap enough to throw in the drawer as a last line of back up when full. I have given some to less technical family for back ups of their MacBooks or other computers with low storage. Another stores a bunch of retro ROMS for a raspberry pi.
I bought a 1Gb IDE drive in the 1990s for $300…

Update 31 Oct: Back in stock, small price increase from $68.50 to $68.80

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  • codvision on 12/10/2023 - 13:55

    Shut up and take my money!

    • simonizmaster on 12/10/2023 - 13:59

      Shut da mouth and take my Dollar!!!

  • CyberMurning on 12/10/2023 - 13:57
    -3

    I bought a 1Gb IDE drive in the 1990s for $30

    and i bought 128MB usb stick in 1980s for like $50 maybe… crazy

    • mskeggs on 12/10/2023 - 13:58
      +7

      What did you plug the USB stick into?

      • BewareOfThe Dog on 12/10/2023 - 18:17

        It took me a few re-reads, but yes USB was not until 1998, but it was a few years before USB storage started to take off. I remember the Sony rep showing me Memory Stick, designed for cameras, and trying to sell the benefits of using this in their floppy adapter (and USB?) around 1999. Then I used to sell Sanyo(?) Floppy adapters that were compatible with Smartmedia. The early USB sticks @99-00 were 4mb, 8mb, 16mb etc

  • adrianhughes1998 on 12/10/2023 - 14:10

    A review here of the 64GB variant so you would think the 256GB would be better speeds: https://goughlui.com/2023/03/31/review-patriot-ep-64gb-uhs-i…

    But look to be honest for this amount of storage at this price, it's an absolute steal.

  • incipient on 12/10/2023 - 14:12
    +1

    Cheap enough to throw in the draw as a last line of back up when full.

    Very much not great. By the time you need these as a "last line" they'll be very old and have lost plenty of data.

    Either go go cloud (Microsoft 1tb is very affordable) or if you're looking at bulk data get two raided hdds in a nas. In know "redundancy isn't backup" so technically adding another single drive nas would be advisable.

    • mskeggs on 12/10/2023 - 14:19
      +1

      Shrug. I back up locally and online and keep a fourth copy at a family member’s place that gets updated only occasionally, but is cold and air gapped and safe from some future bitlocker style attack that might render cloud and local backups useless. I needed to get photos from a back up years ago that was corrupted but the files were still on the card, so forgive me if I overdo it on back ups.

      I hope you never need to recover some missing family photos, but I won’t start reusing SD cards worth $14 because you think they are a pointless as a last line of defence.

      • eug on 12/10/2023 - 16:46

        I back up locally and online and keep a fourth copy at a family member’s place that gets updated only occasionally, but is cold and air gapped and safe from some future bitlocker style attack that might render cloud and local backups useless.

        For backups, wouldn't a SATA SSD be more reliable for not much more? They're faster, less susceptible to damage, harder to misplace, have more durable connectors, and possibly have more reliable memory cells than a budget microSD card. A 1TB Western Digital drive is just under $70 for example. A USB to SATA adaptor is $12-16.

        • mskeggs on 12/10/2023 - 17:31

          Yep, I have a backup to an SSD and a HDD, but like I said, at this price why would you ever delete your files, just throw them in the drawer when full as an extra back up.

          • BewareOfThe Dog on 12/10/2023 - 18:19

            @mskeggs: I have a heap of Kodak Gold DVD-R lifetime disks. Ordered 10, received 10 x 10 packs.

    • Nukkels on 12/10/2023 - 16:31
      +1

      get two raided hdds in a nas

      It's $200 for the cheapest NAS + another $120 for 2x 1TB drives. That's almost 5 times the cost.

      If someone was thinking about buying a skateboard would you just recommend them a car instead? It's not even in the same league for budget, size/weight, purpose, etc.

      Look, I get it - using SD cards for long-term bulk storage isn't a great idea, but it's dirt cheap and will work for a couple of years, by which point you'd hope they've had the chance to upgrade. I use these SD cards for Switch storage and to run Linux on a handheld gaming console and they've been solid enough for that, so unless your use case is hammering it with video editing or using it as a swap file or something crazy, it's really not as bad as you think.

  • Hiphopopotamus on 12/10/2023 - 14:23

    Speed test from an Amazon review: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71nPNeniomL.jpg

    Looks good!

  • dr on 12/10/2023 - 14:32
    +2

    I bought a 1Gb IDE drive in the 1990s for $300…

    OK boomer ;-)

    • paulaus on 13/10/2023 - 00:53

      Bought a 40mb drive in the 80s for $300

  • GordonD on 12/10/2023 - 14:36
    +2

    Cheap enough to throw in the draw

    Tell me about this draw. What does the winner get?

    • eug on 12/10/2023 - 14:57
      +2

      At least 5 micro SD cards evidently.

  • kid-vhee on 12/10/2023 - 15:25
    +1

    Anyone want to try to raid these. Aliexpress 4 tf/micro sd raid adaptor to sata.

    $/gb is bad, reliability would be bad, but wonder if it can saturate sata speeds.

    • 0 0 0 on 12/10/2023 - 15:54

      Haha was going to ask and didn't know these existed. Does it mirror or extend space?

    • Clear on 12/10/2023 - 16:05

      People still use those? They were a novelty back when SSDs first came about. Now you can get dirt cheap SSDs.

  • bigAlOz on 12/10/2023 - 16:59
    +2

    I'm not seeing the option for 5 x 256GB. Anyone else?

    • eug on 12/10/2023 - 17:01

      It was there before, looks like it has disappeared.

    • dazza826 on 28/10/2023 - 13:35

      They are now back in stock for $68.80

      Ordered a pack. Hoping I don't get a cancellation email again.

      • dazza826 on 31/10/2023 - 08:33

        Shipped this time. Huzzah.

  • send2riven on 12/10/2023 - 17:14

    This makes the 5X128GB @ $44.75 seem expensive.

  • feral on 12/10/2023 - 17:25

    Got some of these last time round for 70 something, seem to work fine in the Odin, the Ayaneo, android phones, the router. Wouldn't stick one in an Ally tho.

  • dazza826 on 16/10/2023 - 12:46

    My order was cancelled due to lack of stock. Ordered very early on as well. I call shenanigans. How did you go op?

    • mskeggs on 16/10/2023 - 21:39
      +1

      Mine is shipped.

      • dazza826 on 16/10/2023 - 21:51

        Nice, glad to hear it :)

        Will keep an eye out in that case for when they next roll around.

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