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Moving from UHS-I SD cards to SD Express cards

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MissingGhost

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Hello all,
I use UHS-I SD Cards for my off-site backups (regular backups are on a ZFS NAS). In real world performance, I only get 20-30MB/s. With now terabytes of data, backups take too long. It's not so bad when I only do monthly incremental backups, the incremental sends are usually taking only an hour or less. It's when I'm doing the full backup again that it takes too long, often 4-5 days. In short, I am considering switching from UHS-I SD cards to SD express cards, with the hopes that there will be cards in the 1-2TB range sometime soon that aren't 10k$.
Is this a good idea? What's a good reader for such cards? I have found a few that are external USB, anything that will fit in an internal bay instead? Anyone have experience with them and can share how good/bad they work?
 
I would like to have something a little more compact. I have two copies of my off-site backup. One sits at home to be filled and the other is in my locker at work. I exchange them when I have a new copy ready. Considering that storage needs are always expending, and that it would already require several external drives, they would be too much to carry. The cards I use are microSD.
 
MissingGhost said:
I would like to have something a little more compact. I have two copies of my off-site backup. One sits at home to be filled and the other is in my locker at work. I exchange them when I have a new copy ready. Considering that storage needs are always expending, and that it would already require several external drives, they would be too much to carry. The cards I use are microSD.
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Um ... what? NVME drives with compact enclosures exist and things like this exist:

https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Portable-SSD-1TB-MU-PC1T0T/dp/B0874XN4D8/ref=sr_1_5?crid=D6OHCGFQ5DMV&sprefix=compact+external+ss,aps,193&sr=8-5&th=1

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-1TB-Portable-SSD-SDSSDE30-1T00-G26/dp/B0C5JQ68FY/ref=sr_1_6_mod_primary_new?crid=D6OHCGFQ5DMV&sbo=RZvfv//HxDF+O5021pAnSA==&sprefix=compact+external+ss,aps,193&sr=8-6&th=1

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-1TB-Portable-SSD-CT1000X9SSD902/dp/B0CGW1FQV4/ref=sr_1_13?crid=D6OHCGFQ5DMV&sprefix=compact+external+ss,aps,193&sr=8-13&th=1

It's honestly insane what you're using now. I'm at a loss for words. Stop doing whatever you're currently doing.


And if you still have a weird obsession with mini cards after all this, then get a couple Angelbirds:

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/angelbird-av-pro-se-cfexpress-b-v4-mk2-512-gb/J3LXKWKHTF
 
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He hasn't responded. He's probably discovered floppy drives and started using those.
 
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