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Mandy ,

Cool

Why tho

sploosh ,

I feel like dealing with SD cards’ inevitable demise is more important than armoring them. What good is a stainless SD card that no longer functions after 2 years of use?

cm0002 ,

What good is a stainless SD card

Better thermal conductivity and in turn dissipation than plastic does tend to longer lasting flash chips, how much this change means in real world practice though remains to be seen

Heat is a flash storage killer of all kinds

sploosh ,

It’s hard to believe that it would have taken 25 years for the many SD card builders out there to figure out that a heat spreader could solve the degradation problems.

mox ,

Less plastic being manufactured? Sounds good to me. :)

Reverendender , (edited )

Seriously. Let’s light a fire under this trend. I will spend twice as much on a thing if it’s metal instead of plastic.

cm0002 ,

While we’re at it, let’s get back to all metal phones! Screw this glass back shit.

For the “Wireless” charging people:

It’s a gimmick, nothing of value is lost

glimse ,

Wireless charging rocks, dude

Reverendender ,

“All right team this is the single most dropped item in the history of mankind we need to make this thing tough what are we gonna manufacture the backing out of?”

“Glass?”

“…….Brilliant!! You’ve got upper management written all over you, Jacobs!”

bluGill ,

Likely far more energy and pollution needed to manufacture this though so overall a loss for the earth.

deegeese ,

But most steel is recycled and most plastic is not.

bluGill , (edited )

You still need a lot of energy to recycle steel. Less than mining by far but still a lot.

deegeese , (edited )

But compared to plastic from virgin fossil fuels?

We as a society are going to need memory cards.

What do you think they should be made out of?

bluGill ,

Need to be examined on e case by case basis but plastic often comes out aheadi

Deceptichum , (edited )
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If you penny pinch and don’t want to pay the environmental cost, sure plastic might come out cheaper.

But when you take into account the triple bottom line, plastic comes out behind.

AllNewTypeFace ,
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In a sustainable world, energy can and should be cheaper than raw materials. We are only harvesting a tiny fraction of the solar energy hitting the earth, to say nothing of wind and geothermal power. Rolling out more renewables and energy storage and using some of the surplus power to switch from extracting new resources to recycling our waste would greatly lower our footprint.

Luvs2Spuj ,

Energy needs can be met and shouldn’t be an argument for using plastic.

The pollution could be more dependending on how you look at that statement, but making something without plastic results in less plastic pollution and you can’t claim that to be an overall loss for the earth.

cm0002 ,

You can swap out centralized energy sources (relatively speaking) overnight as greener sources become cheaper/more available compared to retooling whole industries away from plastic

It’s the same thing with electric cars, yea it might plug in now to a dirty energy source, but that energy source could be a green energy source tomorrow without you ever knowing and importantly not having to buy a new car or change any other infrastructure to take advantage of it

A power line is a power line, it doesn’t care if the electricity going through it was derived from a dirty power plant or solar or nuclear

empireOfLove2 , (edited )
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Unironically a good idea. I can see these really helping to increase the chances of memory survival in camera applications where the camera has a high chance of being physically destroyed. Also a metal body reallllly helps conduct heat out of the flash, which will increase their lifespan in continuous-write applications.

Voyajer ,
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Stainless is extra bad at conducting heat considering it’s a metal, but it’s still way better than plastic. I hope they make an aluminum version at some point.

empireOfLove2 ,
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Yes, stainless is “bad”, compared to other metals. But like you also mentioned, it’s loads better than plastic.

I’d doubt they make an aluminum one, it’s probably not worth the tooling.

When dealing with only 100-200mW, even a small change in thermal conductivity will make a big difference.

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