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Just out of curiosity what would you use/need it for?
..storage?
O rly?
Duh, penile storage that is
I'm guessing they mean microSD and would like to use it for additional storage
Stick my wiener into it
I have a 512GB microSD card in my current phone that is about half full. I don't have any interest in paying a subscription to store my stuff on someone else's server ("the cloud"), when the SD card only cost me a couple of months of what a subscription would. I periodically back up the SD card at home.
As to what's on it? The usual stuff like pictures and videos, but also game ROMs, call recordings, shows/movies, ISOs, utilities (I can make my phone appear to be a flash drive, bootable even). I also backup my texts and other records using a third party app. When I do have to swap phones, transferring the SD card over and then restoring stuff like settings, messages, records, etc is way faster than any of the OEM transfer tools.
Music mostly. I have over a terabyte of FLAC files stored on my home NAS and whilst I do have a Navidrome instance setup to stream it all, it's not as reliable as just playing locally.
Fair enough. Does a phone have a good enough chip to play FLAC to it's full strength?
Apps, scheduled backups, photos, offline maps, music.
Would rather not store most things on the device NAND as it has a finite shelf life
What's the shelf life of the NAND? Thought it was sth like 10 years
In theory, but phones do soooo much with the NAND that I think it varies quite largely.
I've struggled to get more than 3-5 years out of my devices, and its seemed to be the NAND causing the failure in my limited experience
My galaxy S4 failed after two years and would go straight into firmware flashing mode when connected to a computer. Leading up to this, it was reallllyyyy slow. I eventually narrowed this down to the internal storage, and moved my apps to the SD card where things sped up again. It would also frequently reboot.
My Galaxy S5 (RIP π€§) failed after a good 6 year run, now it goes straight to recovery with
MMC_READ failedsadlyOn the opposite end of things I've got an old Android 4 tablet from 2013 that still works perfectly fine, although I don't really have any reason to use it, it's kinda just existing as a time capsule.
Thanks for sharing your experience :) Glad I never had such issues with my devices, but I guess it heavily depends on the specific device and the usecases.
My current Op 7 Pro has also been running without a problem. But in case it happens I know what might be the cause