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Re:1TB microSD cards by justfor1comment on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @02:52PM (#19257737)
Fun fact: You can download the entire set of articles on Wikipedia. The English set is roughly 25GB in size. At 1TB you could probably store 40 different languages in your tablet. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_W...
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Re:1TB microSD cards by int_19h on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @05:20PM (#19258876)
This is without images, which makes many articles that much less useful. A full point-in-time snapshot of English Wikipedia, with images, without videos, and with xz compression applied to all data, is on the order of 80 Gb.
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