MrBadger
Badger out
Do people get a few seconds gap between each 5x second clip?
Any evidence of truncated (eg 1k) clips?
Any evidence of truncated (eg 1k) clips?
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The fact that people get errors is because it’s a software bug. Period. There’s no hard evidence that any of the ‘solutions’ are any better than a decent USB thumb drive.
The only permanent solution is for Tesla to fix it, which it seems they’re starting to do.
The only permanent solution is for Tesla to fix it, which it seems they’re starting to do.
CharleyBC
Active Member
CharleyBC
Active Member
How about the high end? A car in the sun in 100+F/40C can get much hotter than the ambient air temperature, and the SSD needs to be operating at, say, 150F. I just looked on Samsung's site (Portable SSD T5 500GB (GOLD) Memory & Storage - MU-PA500G/WW | Samsung US) and I don't see any operating temperature specs.
Has anyone run this happily (or otherwise) in high heat?
SalisburySam
Active Member
Got the $90 Samsung T5 500GB SSD from Amazon, have used it for a couple of months now. Absolutely no issues so far, but we haven’t had the hot-sunny-day-for-a-black-car-in-the-sun temperatures that we will next Summer. Easy to format (at least on my iMac) into two 250GB partitions, one for Dashcam/Sentry, the other for music. All works without incident.
Hardest part is going through the videos, now that there are four per minute for every minute captured, one each for front/rear/left/right cameras. If my car isn’t damaged, I just delete the folder. So far, just a lot of deletes. Love the SSD.
Hardest part is going through the videos, now that there are four per minute for every minute captured, one each for front/rear/left/right cameras. If my car isn’t damaged, I just delete the folder. So far, just a lot of deletes. Love the SSD.
CharleyBC
Active Member
Yeah. There are only two reasons I know of for going through lots of Sentry videos:
- You discover some damage or theft and are seeking evidence.
- Your life is intensely boring.
SalisburySam
Active Member
Actually, I do have one other use case. I still get phantom braking on v36.2.3 for no apparent reason I can discern. I’ve developed the habit of saving cam images when this happens, and I do go through them to try to figure out why this annoyance happens. So far, no joy. And I’m probably intensely boring.
The errors started right after a software update. They started for people that had been using USB thumb drives with no problems for many months to just a few weeks. Knightshade has proven numerous times that the ‘drive too slow’ error is erroneous for all but the cheapest garbage thumb drives due to the nature of how TeslaCam writes data. He also showed that there’s no appreciable difference between a thumb drive and the SSDs, especially regarding write speed. Also, right after a software update, people’s gear started functioning properly again.
Knightshade
Well-Known Member
Yup.
not only that we've had folks who own two Teslas, and they get the error in one car but not the other.... and at least one owner who explicitly tested by swapping storage devices between the two cars.
The failing car continued to fail, and the working car continued to work.
Despite them now having the opposite storage device in them that worked in the other car.
If it was an issue with the storage HW the problem would follow the storage hardware. It doesn't.
not only that we've had folks who own two Teslas, and they get the error in one car but not the other.... and at least one owner who explicitly tested by swapping storage devices between the two cars.
The failing car continued to fail, and the working car continued to work.
Despite them now having the opposite storage device in them that worked in the other car.
If it was an issue with the storage HW the problem would follow the storage hardware. It doesn't.
CharleyBC
Active Member
True indeed. I was thinking only of Sentry videos, not ones when you're actually using the car. Sometimes those are just fun, too, like the time we drove by a hot air balloon.
amoney805
Member
Now my car doesnt recognize the usb cable supplied from samsung. Anyone have this issue?
SalisburySam
Active Member
sduck
Mr. Duck
Cables can go bad. Let me rephrase that - cable will go bad. The one that came with my sandisk ssd lasted for maybe 6 months.
XLR82XS
D M C
Anyone having issues with the Samsung MUF-256AB drive? Had it installed and working fine for a couple weeks - now I'm getting a message that it's not formatted correctly? It's been set at FAT32 before it was ever installed in the car.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D7Q41PM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D7Q41PM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
XLR82XS
D M C
Snow Drift
[Off-Road Assist] Activated
Ordered! Thank you and everyone else for the reviews. My Samsung USB has been a hassle since v10.
sduck
Mr. Duck
Just in case anyone is wondering, there are other ssd's out there that work as well as the T5, at least for our common application. For some reason the samsung is put on some kind of pedestal in recommendations for dashcam/music use, but there's no reason to be locked into that brand - if price is an issue, shop around, you might find a good deal on another similar brand, and have it work just as well.
Very storage device dependent from my experience. I've had mediocre experiences with USB storage sticks. And overwhelmingly good experience with the Samsung T5 SSDs on both a 2018 S and a 2019 X. YMMV but I've only read good things about the Samsung storage products working with Teslacam including your review of the Samsung Fit Plus.
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