professional money making photogrpahy will say
why i always reduce RES on phone cam - default sucks they push u buy more disk
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or call it an expensive hobby - still if u spend - better make OWN customer NGFF array LIGHT n less risk than HDD but ar expensive
weight n size far far LESS that what u have now
100% with you. Don’t even mention power consumption.
if u can keep online - i consider (case purpose basis) keeping stick offline (no electric) mount when need - personal normal usercase - stuff like continous high RW IOPS not need much space than 100GB ususally do on NVMe or DRAM replace when degrade to 70%