• NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    I’ve got a bunch of high capacity SD cards that i converted into little storage drives. I throw movies and tv shows I download onto them and it’s great for handing off to a friend or throwing into a device real quick.

    I got these individual usb SD card readers but they get really hot if you leave them on all the time. So it’s nice to only turn it on when I need to read or write to them. The added security benefit is that when they are off you literally can’t hack them.

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      10 months ago

      Oh ok. So you’re using them effectively like cold storage backups? I was scared you were going to tell me that you were running an ZFS pool off a USB hub, lol.

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        10 months ago

        I’d say that’s an accurate summary of my activities. It’s nice to plug in one usb and hit the buttons as needed. I hate fiddling around with it since micro SD cards are super easy to lose track of.

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          10 months ago

          I dunno about that. If you actually were using a USB hub for ZFS, then I have a 10 petabyte flash drive to sell you.