Oh, yeah. That’s sketchy AF. I paid a lot more than that, and then I did a full write/read test when they arrived, to make sure they actually worked.
There’s no way you’re getting 256GB for that cheap. I think I paid something like $6-10-ish CAD for 32GB a few years ago?
I’ve bought some of those, knowing they were potentially sketchy, for applications that don’t matter (like NintendoDS flash carts, or Raspberry Pi projects) and I’ve mostly been impressed with them. They have worked, and had most/all of their listed capacity at most of their advertised read/write speed.
Then again, I was only buying low-capacity ones, like 16-32GB max, and haven’t used any for many write cycles, so idk if they hold up.
But it was worth it, for me, to get a steep discount on chips for tinkering projects.
But for my 1TB chip for my Deck, I went through the verification process with the manufacturer to confirm it was a legit chip while it was still in the return window!
Right, but nobody goes to these sites independently, it’s all to plaster so much spam that they get search traffic.
Try searching for any niche topic in the form of a specific question, and you’ll get search results that are a barrage of slop.
The article addresses that. These are not numbers released by the company; they’re from independent analytics companies’ estimates.
Meh. I like seeing it. I don’t spend a lot of time thinking/worrying about it, but it’s a nice data point to keep up with.
As with most “computer geeks” forced to use Teams/M365, I have a strong reason to want more people comfortable switching to open source. The faster we can ditch American property slopware, the better.