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I notice Sandisk marketing is at full speed and they have a new Max Endurance line coming out this week to sit above their High Endurance line.
The High Endurance cards were rated for up to 20,000 hours of constant recording on the 256GB cards whereas these new Max Endurance cards say 6x that at 120,000 hours which is almost 14 years of constant recording at 1080p. It doesn't specify at what bitrate they've rated that at and it may be only 5Mbps like a lot of CCTV cameras these days.
These times halve as you halve the capacity all the way down to 15k hours for the 32GB.
The legal blurb does mention these times drop when using UHD / 4k so assume it's worked out on total megabytes written and therefore higher bitrate resolutions will kill them off quicker - there will be a SMART counter in there somewhere for warranty I would assume.
Time will tell how reliable they are - they seem to go up to 256GB for now and UK pricing on Amazon at the time of writing (17 Feb) is as follows (Max Endurance first followed by High Endurance price):
32GB - Max £12.99 - High £11.61
64GB - Max £20.99 - High £17.32
128GB - Max £36.99 - High £30.36
256GB - Max £101.99 - High £83.89
The 128GB card seems to be the sweet spot in pricing for both Max Endurance and High Endurance for now.
It will be interesting to hear how these cards fare in the higher bitrate cameras over time.
The High Endurance cards were rated for up to 20,000 hours of constant recording on the 256GB cards whereas these new Max Endurance cards say 6x that at 120,000 hours which is almost 14 years of constant recording at 1080p. It doesn't specify at what bitrate they've rated that at and it may be only 5Mbps like a lot of CCTV cameras these days.
These times halve as you halve the capacity all the way down to 15k hours for the 32GB.
The legal blurb does mention these times drop when using UHD / 4k so assume it's worked out on total megabytes written and therefore higher bitrate resolutions will kill them off quicker - there will be a SMART counter in there somewhere for warranty I would assume.
Time will tell how reliable they are - they seem to go up to 256GB for now and UK pricing on Amazon at the time of writing (17 Feb) is as follows (Max Endurance first followed by High Endurance price):
32GB - Max £12.99 - High £11.61
64GB - Max £20.99 - High £17.32
128GB - Max £36.99 - High £30.36
256GB - Max £101.99 - High £83.89
The 128GB card seems to be the sweet spot in pricing for both Max Endurance and High Endurance for now.
It will be interesting to hear how these cards fare in the higher bitrate cameras over time.