Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/microsd-cards/tragic-oceangate-titan-submersibles-usd62-sandisk-memory-card-found-undamaged-at-wreckage-site-12-stills-and-nine-videos-have-been-recovered-but-none-from-the-fateful-implosion
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klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe · 63 pts · 318d
Too bad they can’t make the whole submarine out of a SanDisk card
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 318d
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."
klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe · 31 pts · 318d
I doubt that had a black box at all. It was probably the OS it booted on the Raspberry Pi that controlled everything 🤣😭
Aeao@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 318d
At the end of the article they seem to explain there was nothing of interest on the card. Unless I’m reading that wrong.
Shadow@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 318d
No that's correct. The camera was setup to dump data to an external device, so the onboard stuff was old.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 318d
And to be fair even if they had pictures or video it would probably be uninteresting. Implosion happens so fast there wouldn’t be anything to see. Just “fish, fish, fis-blackness”
Goretantath@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 318d
So what you are saying is we need phantoms as sub security cameras, got it.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 318d
This week on the slomo guys, Gavin sends Dan to the bottom of the Marianas Trench to see what happens when a body is imploded
Davel23@fedia.io · 23 pts · 318d
Scott Manley just did a video on the NTSB report, it has good details on the card.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMUjCZ7MMWQ
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 318d
The TLDW is the SD card had recoverable data, however none of it was from the final dive.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 317d
Ty!
nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev · 19 pts · 318d
Scientists were already able to recover footage of their final moments on the SD card
https://youtu.be/Bu8bH2P37kY
Agent641@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 318d
Really puts the fragility of life in Perspex.
frank_exchange_of_views@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 317d
Just a bit of context, the card was outside the sub and built into a camera that was rated for that depth.
Goretantath@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 318d
Yet sandisk USB sticks lock up at the slightest blip and become a paperweight..
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 317d
The trick is to read and never write.
Bags@piefed.social · 2 pts · 317d
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.