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Can you share YOUR “storage” for sentry? What are you using?

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What are YOU using?
Can you also share link or name and model and your experience with it?

Plenty of posts discussing usb v SD card, etc few actually recommending/dissing specific products they actually have used..

will probably be a great resource for new and old owners alike!

Go!:)
 
Found an old 40GB first gen intel SSD lying around my house. Shoved it in a £5 enclosure and partitioned it in 2 for Music and sentry. Running fine so far, although I recognise that the sentry partition will be getting hammered. Will eventually do the same again with a bigger drive when I can be bothered.

-Any- SSD will be drastically over spec'd for this, skips all the compatability problems, and just seems easier to me. Not quite as neat to be fair.
 
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tbh, you need to be asking in the main forum section as, apart from a few strays, Model 3 UK wise has got insufficient time to know what works long term. A device working for 6 months is meaningless, when warranty wise it should be lasting at least 11 months+ depending on usage patterns and many years if used 25% of the time, not an unreasonable ratio.

The interesting ones are the failures, which may well be expected to occur on some less specialised types of device already if TeslaCam is on 24/7.

But in answer to your question, for TeslaCam I have a pair of 128GB Sandisk Endurance micro SD cards that I rotate at my leisure, a Sandisk Extreme card for audio files, and a dual card reader on a 4" lead velcro'd to underside of phone shelf. tbh, I would be peeved if I didn't get a few years out of each, but I expect they are a commodity item which WILL fail at some point. But at £25 a piece (reduced from the £30 I paid), a tenner a year and a spare on hand is pretty reasonable expectations.

I had a few teething issues, but since changing the program that I used to format the cards and stopping the reader flapping around loose, the only issue since then that I had was the odd folder corruption which can affect any device and seems to be the Tesla running a scan disc and not liking the state of the card that Windows PC has left it in, even after telling windows not to fix the card, or, not waiting long enough to remove the card after turning off dashcam - my SD reader does not have an activity light.
 
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Anecdote isn't data, but I had one of these -the exact same model- in my S, put it in in September.

Noticed it was totally dead a couple of weeks ago. Totally unreadable either in the car or on a computer - not even recognised as a disk any more.

I've replace it with:

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07N8SVHXS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001JPPQS6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

....too soon to say anything about reliability but it's working OK for now....
 
Noticed it was totally dead a couple of weeks ago. Totally unreadable either in the car or on a computer - not even recognised as a disk any more.

I had similar but managed to recover by reformatting it using the method and program in option 3 instructions here. I tried various other things but only that app worked for me. Everything been reliable since - fingers crossed. I'm happy to reuse that card as its well within its expected usage, but a non specific drive may only get 3 months use out of if used 24/7.
 
Unlike some SD cards,

Endurance cards seem to be typically warranted for hours HD video, specified in small print as being a certain size. That size equates to approx 3.2MB/s vs 4MB/s of Tesla's dashcam recomendation, where reality is much less with the current 4 camera setup. So an SD Endurance card rated at 10000 or 20000 hours use,,will in dashcam, give expected warranty life of 11 or 22 months if used 24/7. Of course, if you don't use TeslaCam 24/7, it should, warranty wise, last proportionally longer - totally usage pattern dependent.
 
What is the difference between an SSD and an external har disk for example?

would something like this work?
I have two WD my passport external HD with 1TB and 2TB storages one of which is barely being used at all and I would happily repurpose them for sentry... just don’t know if that’s what I’m looking for..?
This WD 1TB Blue My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBGPU0010BBL-EESN https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00Y0R9DD4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_UlTxEb2S87TDH

What do you guys think?
 
What is the difference between an SSD and an external har disk for example?

would something like this work?
I have two WD my passport external HD with 1TB and 2TB storages one of which is barely being used at all and I would happily repurpose them for sentry... just don’t know if that’s what I’m looking for..?
This WD 1TB Blue My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBGPU0010BBL-EESN https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00Y0R9DD4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_UlTxEb2S87TDH

What do you guys think?
SSD is solid state no moving parts (bit like ram fast AF) HDDs are spinning hard disk dives (more power consumption and not as fast for read/write)
Format it to Fat32 and create a folder TeslaCam - nowt to lose - give it a go
 
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What is the difference between an SSD and an external har disk for example?

would something like this work?
I have two WD my passport external HD with 1TB and 2TB storages one of which is barely being used at all and I would happily repurpose them for sentry... just don’t know if that’s what I’m looking for..?
This WD 1TB Blue My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBGPU0010BBL-EESN https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00Y0R9DD4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_UlTxEb2S87TDH

What do you guys think?

I'm not a big fan of spinning rust in a moving car, but modern drives are fairly resilient. You may have issues with it needing more power than the USB sockets are capable of providing but that's unlikely.

You have nothing to lose by trying it out, but it'd be worth planning a check in a month or so that the drive's still working - take it out, plug it into a computer and do a proper fsck/chkdsk/Disk Utility Verification (delete according to OS preference) looking for any issues. If you can get the SMART data off the drive that would also indicate whether all the bumping and wobbling was causing issues - look for sector remaps as a clue to this.
 
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This reader, this SD card and this app for looking at the footage. If you wished to view on iOS with the app, you will need the relevant USB adaptor.

Had them about six months, and it all seems to work perfectly.
Wow, it’s been a LONG time since I’ve asked Jeeves. :p
Is the app a one off purchase and does it combine camera angles to see all angles in one clip? Is that default or is this configurable?
 
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