Just a bit of context, the card was outside the sub and built into a camera that was rated for that depth.
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Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site
(www.tomshardware.com)
Scientists were already able to recover footage of their final moments on the SD card
Really puts the fragility of life in Perspex.
Scott Manley just did a video on the NTSB report, it has good details on the card.
The TLDW is the SD card had recoverable data, however none of it was from the final dive.
Ty!
Too bad they can’t make the whole submarine out of a SanDisk card
Is it the black box though? I mean... The controls were a little-brother-tier knockoff logitech controller so maybe this SanDisk card contains all the "wtf happened."
I doubt that had a black box at all. It was probably the OS it booted on the Raspberry Pi that controlled everything 🤣😭
At the end of the article they seem to explain there was nothing of interest on the card. Unless I’m reading that wrong.
No that's correct. The camera was setup to dump data to an external device, so the onboard stuff was old.
Yet sandisk USB sticks lock up at the slightest blip and become a paperweight..
I feel this.
I have had the same 4GB Kingston USB2.0 stick hanging off my keyring for what feels like the last 15 years or so, and it just continues to work perfectly fine... But yet every single modern USB stick I have feels like it wants to die at any moment. I bought a 5 pack of 16GB sandisk cruzr glides at a thrift shop for $5 last year, you know the ones, black housing, red slider to pop the USB part out... Only 2 of them still work. I've gone through about 5 32GB microcenter sticks in the last couple years, and had one 128GB microcenter stick go bad just recently.
I also have a 1GB Lexar USB2.0 stick that I got in 2006 and it also still works perfectly fine despite looking like it got run over by a truck. It's been the 3d printer usb stick for like 5 years now, no signs of quitting.
I am constantly on the edge of just dropping big bucks on a 64 or 128GB stick from someplace with a warranty like Cactus Tech or something and hopefully just never worrying about it again.