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Lexar unveils the world's first SD cards made of 316 stainless steel (www.techspot.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] cm0002 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

Why would they want to solve an issue that causes you to need a new product from them