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Old 11-28-2018, 06:10 PM   #5
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Althought be forewarned, SD cards are not designed to be constantly streamed to and will eventually corrupt themselves. I've gone through around 3 or 4 64 GB sd cards since 2015 but it's cheap insurance.
If you buy the wrong type of SD card, then sure. If you buy the right type of SD card, then it will last. I've been using the same 64 GB card for more than two years in my dashcam, which has two 1080P cameras, and also runs in parking mode when the car is off. At the time I bought a Thinkware-branded card, but SanDisk now sells their own High Endurance cards specifically for use in dashcams and the like. There are different ways to design the flash memory in an SD card, and higher speed cards typically have a flash structure that makes them wear out much more quickly. A dashcam card doesn't need rear/write speeds of many hundreds of MB/s, so the architecture can be optimized for longevity and durability, rather than high speed. Notice the SanDisk High Endurance cards only have read/write speeds of 20 Mb/s, vs their Extreme Pro cards, which read at 275 Mb/s.

https://www.sandisk.com/home/memory-...urance-microsd
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