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Re:Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terab... by Invictus0 on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:56PM (#25564277)
The entire libgen archive is roughly 50 terabytes (most of the books ever written). It will be a very long time before we reach that level of storage in a phone.
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Re:Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terab... by cameronh90 on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:05PM (#25564361)
Only because we changed the goalposts. My 2007 iPod has more hard drive space than my current phone, but it was slow noisy disk storage.

Meanwhile my phone's storage is basically now just a high speed cache for the internet.

Whether it will go back the other way again in the future, I don't know if anyone can know but tech does tend to be cyclical.

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Re:Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terab... by krick on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:02PM (#25564336)
To be fair, libgen has a lot of PDFs. Libraries in fb2 or such are orders of magntitude leaner.
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Re:Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terab... by foolmeonce on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:23PM (#25564544)
I'm not sure what you mean by a very long time. We have 1tb microsdxc now and it is about 1000 times the capacity of sdcards available in 2005.
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Re:Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terab... by zmmmmm on Monday December 28, 2020 @07:45PM (#25565253)
What's more ... although it would be ugly and awkward, one can easily imagine that 50 micro sd cards could easily be mounted on a single USB like device that sits in your pocket and attaches to a phone. The reason it doesn't exist is primarily nobody needs it rather than "it can't be done".
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