storage density is kind of ridiculous these days
you can get half-terabyte micro-sd cards
though i don't know if sd card controllers do fancy stuff like wear leveling
@Felthry they probably do
people don't tend to realize that there's a little computer inside of SD cards to do all kinds of fancy stuff
@monorail you can do lots of neat stuff when you have enough money for custom silicon
@monorail i don't know if it'd count as a computer really, since it isn't programmable or general-purpose afawk
@Felthry I've definitely seen someone get arbitrary code on one
@monorail @Felthry I think this is it https://youtu.be/r3GDPwIuRKI
@Felthry I'd be mostly concerned about reliability
@noiob if comparing sd cards in general with specifically cheap ssds, i'm pretty sure decent sd cards will be more reliable. could be wrong though!
@noiob you can get a 512gb samsung microsd card for $80, a similarly sized samsung ssd is about twice that but you can get less reliable brands for less
because a PCIe card reader + fast large SD card might be better performance than a similarly-priced SSD