V90...sounds like we're going to get up to 56 kbit/s down and 33.6 kbit/s up and thank goodness no one needs to worry about whether or not their ISP supports K56flex or X2 anymore!
That was actually just 20 miles east of Sacramento. The telcos stopped improving the landlines in the area back in the '80s and have been just doing minimal maintenance ever since. Not dense enough for cable companies to give a hoot. So many people just use cell hot spots for internet these days. It's the fastest and most affordable broadband available.
That stinks, but I'm in a somewhat similar situation living in just far enough from a major population center to limit broadband internet options. 12 mbit DSL is the one and only option and Century Link is disinterested in doing anything to expand service since there's almost no one living here.
Speed improvements are nice and all, but is anyone actually limited by the current crop of cards with 90MB/s write to really care about this much? Prices on the other hand certainly can use some improvement. Even the slow 20MB/s write cards are disproportionately expensive per GB compared to SSDs, and the premium charged for faster cards makes it much worse. SD cards lack many features of SSDs, like TRIM, NCQ, block remapping, wear-leveling, DRAM caches and so on, so why are they so much more expensive?
Meh, it's not a big problem since most SSDs sold these days are planar or 3D TLC. And stay tuned for QLC for even more savings passed directly to the consumer with only one more minor, but perfectly managable hit to endurance. </s>
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BrokenCrayons - Monday, April 17, 2017 - link
V90...sounds like we're going to get up to 56 kbit/s down and 33.6 kbit/s up and thank goodness no one needs to worry about whether or not their ISP supports K56flex or X2 anymore!Demon-Xanth - Monday, April 17, 2017 - link
Lucky for me I never needed to worry about that. The phone system where I lived until 2008 never did (and still doesn't) support more than 28.8k.baka_toroi - Monday, April 17, 2017 - link
Life must be tough in Eritrea.Alexvrb - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Barbed wire makes excellent phone lines! Well, until you need fancy dial-up interwebs, anyway.Demon-Xanth - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
That was actually just 20 miles east of Sacramento. The telcos stopped improving the landlines in the area back in the '80s and have been just doing minimal maintenance ever since. Not dense enough for cable companies to give a hoot. So many people just use cell hot spots for internet these days. It's the fastest and most affordable broadband available.BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
That stinks, but I'm in a somewhat similar situation living in just far enough from a major population center to limit broadband internet options. 12 mbit DSL is the one and only option and Century Link is disinterested in doing anything to expand service since there's almost no one living here.Alexvrb - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
53K*BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Haha, that's why I said "up to 56 kbit/s." :3damianrobertjones - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Sales of the standard cards must be falling, "Quick, release a speed increase and the suckers will lap it all up!"$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
damianrobertjones - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
P.s. MUST BUY ONE NOW! Aggghdamianrobertjones - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
"(the microSDXCs are a slower)"It's a me, Mario!
Visual - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Speed improvements are nice and all, but is anyone actually limited by the current crop of cards with 90MB/s write to really care about this much?Prices on the other hand certainly can use some improvement. Even the slow 20MB/s write cards are disproportionately expensive per GB compared to SSDs, and the premium charged for faster cards makes it much worse. SD cards lack many features of SSDs, like TRIM, NCQ, block remapping, wear-leveling, DRAM caches and so on, so why are they so much more expensive?
haukionkannel - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Depends on. Playing music from phone... no problem. Taking 4K video with camera... you need more speed...taisingera - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Don't forget by Adata using 3d mlc nand inthese cards, there will be less available for SSDs and the price of SSD will increase even more.BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Meh, it's not a big problem since most SSDs sold these days are planar or 3D TLC. And stay tuned for QLC for even more savings passed directly to the consumer with only one more minor, but perfectly managable hit to endurance. </s>marius_zz - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link
it is time now to develop a new open source file system for all mobile devices because the exFAT is a fu**** g sh*** t