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At least its C10!
(well, unless their sd card supplier is also scamming them by adding an even tinier C2 inside, lol)
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(well, unless their sd card supplier is also scamming them by adding an even tinier C2 inside, lol)
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well yeah, but matryoshka sd cards is funnier...
Grok didn't quite seem to get it, but it tried.
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You should count yourself lucky if you get the total advertised storage capacity, regardless of speed.
There was a scam years ago with storage (SSD, hard drive, USB sticks) that sold you lots of gigabytes, but that internally had tiny storage and wrapped around any write over the actual capacity back to the start of the drive. If you checked the storage superficially it worked, but once you you were filling that disk with data it would start to overwrite the previously stored data.
Current scam is to relabel used hard disks as new:
"End-to-end fraud" with hard drives: Seagate finds counterfeit workshop in Asia
Investigating authorities have unearthed a workshop in which used hard disks were converted into new goods. Models from Toshiba and WD were also found.