SHEESH three SD cards available… one customer… straight to Oregon. 
Welcome to the state of affairs in 2026… :')
Sheesh. I bought an Amazon Basics UHS-1 micro SDXC card, 1TB, a year or so ago here on Woot … about $67 with a discount. Glad I did.
Sheesh. Why the scarcity and high prices, I wonder?
Sheesh! I just want to fit in.
The NAND Flash must flow…
Sheesh! I just bought an entire thumb drive that was a terabyte and it cost me less than $100. And it had a USB a connection on one end and a USB C connection on the other. So what’s up with this?
Flash drives and flash cards serve different purposes. In fact, most flash cards can be used externally as drives easier than drives can be used as internal media. Just add a reader to a card vs ripping out the “guts” of a drive.
Some cards have higher transfer rates (read/write speeds) than some conventional USB drives. E.g for use in 4k or 8k cameras.
As you and David said. However, there are additional considerations:
SSDs can read at up to 7000 mpbs.
Flash drives top out about 400 mbps.
Micro SD cards max read at about 130 mbps.
SSDs tend to last far longer as well without corruption or catastrophic unreadable failure. Small is not better in such media. There is even a role for external micro NVMe SSDs as media for handhelds because of the above.
SSDs can do even faster than that.
Now whether we’d be able to afford it is another thing.
Juggling two of these in a $15 enclosure is great, unless you have a digital camera that specifically takes SD cards
Here is a highly rated enclosure for relatively little money. Allows you to add a terabyte @ 7000 mbps via NVMe without a home equity line of credit loan via USB-C. A successful Kickstarter from a US company and Amazon choice with 4.5 / 5 reviews. Width of two and a half thumb drives and about as long and thick. But over 20x faster.
Welp, looks like I’m short by about $19,399.73.
What’d you get?!
For the life of me I can’t figure out where I bought it, but it’s a thumb drive that’s one terabyte in size, and has a sliding switch on top so you can either slide out a recessed USB-A connection on one side or a USB-C connection on the other.
Ahh, yeah I’m looking to purchase something similar to move storage off my phone & I don’t want to buy into the cloud. Waiting to snag something on woot!
Good idea. It’s the same reason i have mine. I don’t like trusting the cloud or anyone else with my stuff
Those should be MBps, not mbps.
Just an addition to the list,
micro SD Express can do up to 985 MB/s.