Re: Meteobridge NANO SD - a NANO with local storage
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:37 pm
Of course time will tell with the Nano being such a new product but with hindsight it is very well known that consumer quality cards really don't have the quality or technology to support what is really a server class environment which is what SLC cards are specifically made for. This was proven with the Meteobridge and there should be no difference with the Nano.
Obviously one can't stop users from installing any card they want (however the Nano will) but they obviously do this at their own risk and should not be expecting any comeback, and standard everyday (cheap) card technology will fail but in this case the Nano won't let that happen as it simply won't accept non approved cards. At the end of the day it's really not how much the card cost but how valuable was the data that disappeared, hardware can be replaced, data can not but in any case one requires good data management practices as nothing is absolutely perfect and even the best may fail, storage does not have an infinite life but some technologies do it just that much better than others.
And yes you have to go beyond the common store, common stores are typically only dealing with consumer grade stuff in quantity and most consumers really don't understand all the differences between technologies and will typically buy based on price, but in this case you really get what you pay for.
Also you do need to check prices even with suppliers. Mouser and Digi-Key are good sites to start.
Obviously one can't stop users from installing any card they want (however the Nano will) but they obviously do this at their own risk and should not be expecting any comeback, and standard everyday (cheap) card technology will fail but in this case the Nano won't let that happen as it simply won't accept non approved cards. At the end of the day it's really not how much the card cost but how valuable was the data that disappeared, hardware can be replaced, data can not but in any case one requires good data management practices as nothing is absolutely perfect and even the best may fail, storage does not have an infinite life but some technologies do it just that much better than others.
And yes you have to go beyond the common store, common stores are typically only dealing with consumer grade stuff in quantity and most consumers really don't understand all the differences between technologies and will typically buy based on price, but in this case you really get what you pay for.
Also you do need to check prices even with suppliers. Mouser and Digi-Key are good sites to start.