Micro SD capacities are crazy

by Ecco on 6/3/2023, 7:47 PM with 9 comments

MicroSD cards with a capacity of 1 TB are readily available. Their dimensions are 15mm x 11mm x 1mm.

If we built 3.5” hard drives with as much information density, a single standard 3.5” drive (5.75in x 4in x 2cm) would hold close to 2 000 TB!

Isn’t that insane? (The price wouldn’t be too shabby too, at close to $100k per drive)

  • by h2odragon on 6/3/2023, 8:02 PM

    Truly amazing, yes. Someday soon our ability to create storage media will outstrip our ability to record pornography to it.

    And yet there's still lots of people who never back up anything.

  • by Ecco on 6/3/2023, 8:04 PM

    Which makes me wonder: why don’t we find higher capacity SSDs? Is it purely a matter of price, with consumers not willing to pay for more capacity than a few TB?

  • by Ecco on 6/3/2023, 8:14 PM

    A friend told me that 2.5” drives might be more common nowadays. With the same density they would still hold 400 TB worth of data!