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I feel like this is a product looking for a market. Why would anyone ever trust that much data to something so fragile and easy to lose?
They're not for long term storage, they're for transient storage like photography, in particular stuff like surveillance cameras
if you want long term CCTV setup properly you should be using ethernet connected security cameras and then transmitting it back to a central server with a hdd always recording. It's much more reliable and way more cost effective, just requires you running an ethernet cable to where the camera is.
It depends on the type of location, small remote locations might not even get their own local network
yeah and at that point you're probably not using a microsd card i would figure. You have a small computer in there already, might as well throw in an SSD or something.
I guess if you needed the sheer capacity of 4TB you might use a micro sd, but you're probably gambling more than you're saving at that point.