Re:SanDisk SD memory card 'largest ever'
by bane on Friday September 12, 2014 @12:36PM
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Honestly, 512GB in a removable postage stamp is the stuff of Science Fiction. I remember when I was kid in the early 90s and in my school computer club and we sat down to sketch out what kind of computer we'd have in the YEAR 2100 and I put down the ridiculous storage size...something like 24GB or something. I wasn't even close.
1 of these could have easily stored a copy of all of the internet traffic that happened over the course of a day in 1993. [1]
Now we've got spaceships, VR, pocket sized personal computers with always on global network communications, video calls, amazing smart watches, and now half a terabyte in something the size of my big toenail.
It kind of feels like the future we were promised pre-internet is finally starting to happen.
My less than a year old desktop's main drive is the same storage size as this. In a year it will be the size of my fingernail and I can put it in my phone and my tablet.
1 of these could have easily stored a copy of all of the internet traffic that happened over the course of a day in 1993. [1]
Now we've got spaceships, VR, pocket sized personal computers with always on global network communications, video calls, amazing smart watches, and now half a terabyte in something the size of my big toenail.
It kind of feels like the future we were promised pre-internet is finally starting to happen.
My less than a year old desktop's main drive is the same storage size as this. In a year it will be the size of my fingernail and I can put it in my phone and my tablet.
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte#Illustrative_usage_ex...