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A Google search for “88.1 cu ft / 165mm^3 * 256GB” largely confirms your calculation (just over 3.8 XB of data). Can’t say I’m surprised - MicroSD cards really
by nneonneo 8y ago
A Google search for “88.1 cu ft / 165mm^3 * 256GB” largely confirms your calculation (just over 3.8 XB of data). Can’t say I’m surprised - MicroSD cards really are crazy dense these days.
If it takes an hour to get to your destination (ignoring load/unload time), that’s an aggregate data rate of around 1000 TB (1 PB) per second. The entire Internet averages something like ~25 TB/s, so our Tesla X has the bandwidth of forty Internets.
Of course, there’s a downside: that many MicroSD cards would actually weigh around 3.7 tons (at 250mg apiece), which is heavier than the Model X itself! Might be harder than expected to make the drive itself.
Relevant XKCD (because there always must be one): https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/