Can I use this SSD for Sentry recording?

[Gulfcoaster]

Hi Guys,

Will this Lacie 500 GB SSD work in our Teslas for recording and storing Sentry? If it does, do I just pull out the Tesla 128GB stick and plug this in with a short USB>USBC cable?

Thanks

 

[DrWhoDey]

I am not familiar with that brand, but if it's reliable then the advertised 1050 read rate should be sufficient, but be certain it has no slower than a 500 write rate for use as your webcam drive.... You will be writing more than reading, after all.

There's a sticky thread at the top of this forum where a lot of discussion regarding good and bad solutions has happened. I would go there and look thru the 40-50 pages to see if anyone has experience with this brand. I know from personal experience that Samsung SSDs, T5 and T7, are good, and that SanDisk cards and memory sticks are completely hit and miss.

You will need a way to connect your SSD to the USB-A 3.x port in the glovebox - and that cable will also need to support higher speeds otherwise it will become a bottleneck. There are many solutions, the one I got was:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086YVMV7Z

Good luck!

 

[Gulfcoaster]

I am not familiar with that brand, but if it's reliable then the advertised 1050 read rate should be sufficient, but be certain it has no slower than a 500 write rate for use as your webcam drive.... You will be writing more than reading, after all.

There's a sticky thread at the top of this forum where a lot of discussion regarding good and bad solutions has happened. I would go there and look thru the 40-50 pages to see if anyone has experience with this brand. I know from personal experience that Samsung SSDs, T5 and T7, are good, and that SanDisk cards and memory sticks are completely hit and miss.

You will need a way to connect your SSD to the USB-A 3.x port in the glovebox - and that cable will also need to support higher speeds otherwise it will become a bottleneck. There are many solutions, the one I got was:

Amazon.com

Good luck!

Hi, Thanks so much for your reply. I bought this Lacie SSD at The Apple Store to backup my MacBook Pro. The write speed is 1000 MB/s.
Here's a link to Lacie Website...

https://www.lacie.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/lacie-mobile-ssd-DS2001-3-2104US-en_US.pdf

 

[Knightshade]

The cameras write at like 0.5 megs a second, to 2 MB/s total for 4 cams... literally anything from a standard USB-A key like Tesla includes with the car up to a high end USB-C PCIe4 SSD is WAY more than fast enough outside of maybe knockoff/gray market/counterfeit junk.

Even USB 2.0 is way faster than needed, so no the cable will never be a bottleneck either.

 

[DrWhoDey]

The cameras write at like 0.5 megs a second, to 2 MB/s total for 4 cams... literally anything from a standard USB-A key like Tesla includes with the car up to a high end USB-C PCIe4 SSD is WAY more than fast enough outside of maybe knockoff/gray market/counterfeit junk.

Even USB 2.0 is way faster than needed, so no the cable will never be a bottleneck either.

Well, you certainly told me.