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In tech space, even 9 years can produce 1000x results. I love this microSD storage example, 2005 vs 2014: http://i.imgur.com/1jyVev4.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1jyV
by Jerry2 11y ago
In tech space, even 9 years can produce 1000x results. I love this microSD storage example, 2005 vs 2014: http://i.imgur.com/1jyVev4.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1jyVev4.jpg
- StavrosK 11y agoNine years to change one letter? Jeez, and we pretend that technology moves fast.
- broodbucket 11y ago3 letters, the X makes it sound cool.
- stordoff 11y agoI had a similar realisation a few days ago - I was putting a new microSD card in my phone, and realised that it represented 100 times the storage of my first PC (200GB vs 2GB). I still get a feeling of "this shouldn't be able to store this much" every time I use a microSD card.
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- TheSpiceIsLife 11y agoI love looking at MicroSD cards and imagining how, in your example there are 1,600,000,000,000 individual storage units inside it. That's 200 x a billion x eight.
- vive-la-liberte 11y ago>this shouldn't be able to store this much Same here. I was thinking about how many CD-ROMs it would take to store a certain amount of information, as a measure of just how much data something amounted to. Then I thought that with microSD cards, the same amount of data would sound much less impressive.
- Evolved 11y agoWhat's the average/expected lifespan of a microSD card vs. a flash drive vs. a CD-R/DVD-R. I've seen various graphs but does anyone have even anecdotal personal experience?
- soared 11y agoWell anecdotally, I've never had a single storage piece die on me. The only exceptions are two microSDs that got fried in my rpi. Apparently you shouldn't constantly read/write to them, and instead just put boot files on it and move everything else to usb.
- Narishma 11y agoYou can read them as much as you like. It's the constant writing that can be an issue.