[ihowlatthemoon]

Just in case you thought it might be a good idea to order that aliexpress thing, it's terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3frnBoqqI_Q

[jdietrich]

There's nothing wrong with the adapter per se, it's just that MicroSD cards have terrible random I/O performance.

[asveikau]

Not just performance. Reliability and data loss are also bad. All of these adapters do raid-0, which means any one card failure (very common, I have seen it a lot in my personal devices) will damage the volume.

As I have a lot of odd SD cards unused in drawers I would be more interested in these adapters if they exposed every card as its own drive so I could do ZFS, or if they did "real" raid.

[beatgammit]

I was thinking it would be cool as a small NAS with a mirror. I want to put my movies and photos on it, and having a huge mirror is very useful for that type of workload. I could drive it with a cheap ARM device, which should allow me to stream a 4k video over the network, provided my network is the bottleneck.

So yeah, I'm very much interested in this device.

[durkie]

good lord he's unwatchable. skip to 7:00 for something somewhat real.

[cptskippy]

Yes, he is hard to watch and they have useful information in their reviews. It's hard.