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  • SanDisk Professional Pro-Blade review: Fast, but an answer to a question nobody is asking

    sdw2001 said:
    I'm kind of undecided on this. On one hand, it's a fast, swappable and durable option that is pretty reasonably priced. On the other hand, it seems to me you are paying for speed. Many prosumers don't need even 1GB/s. It depends on what you're doing. I deal with editing 4K+ drone video and transferring files. For that purpose, even an Sd card at 200 mb/s is fine. If I was working with larger files (like 40gb+) I might be more concerned about speed. Even then, I can get a 2TB Sandisk external drive that hits 1GB a second for around the same price as this. If you spend a bit more you can get 2.8gbs ($350). Still, the swappable nature and durability is compelling. Definitely seems like a niche market.
    That is effectively our take on it. There are better, more wide-ranging solutions for most, with a few niche cases.

    We don't recommend it for most, today, but it's fun. If they can convince camera manufacturers to adopt it, it'll be of wider interest.
    For anyone dealing with raw video, these speeds are a godsend.  For a long time video resolutions and volumes have been growing faster than SSD sizes and speeds, finally SSD and bus speeds are catching up.  Most of my cameras shoot 15GB per minute, Phantom 4K Flex is 1TB per minute.
    watto_cobra