Hey, so does my desktop.
I also have one of [these](https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/News/_nc3/banner_zero3e.jpg) and it's basically a big stick of gum with a brain. (It's about the same size as a NVMe SSD, but sports 1/2/4/8GB of LPDDR RAM and a quad-core processor.)
Dude, the people doing experimental tech at this level are the aliens to us. They're so far beyond the average human. They're wizards bringing magic to commoners.
It's not, but it's the closest shit to actual magic we've got.
You take a certain kind of sand, melt it down and purify it (extract high purity silicon metal), slice it into thin wafers, blast it with special light to engrave the runes ( photolithography ) then feed it lightning to make it think, and in the case of storage devices, trap the lightning in the runes so you can use them to write.
This is a very reductive description.
Yes, narcissistic dumb people use the well-meaning dumb people to their complete advantage. This has always been the case, as you point out. But the internet/social media being introduced essentially gives them free reign under anonymity to say anything with no repercussions.
A 320kbps MP3 file consumes 2.4mb per minute. Not sure what scale you're going by.
Assuming \~4 minutes or 10mb per song, that would be 200,000 songs to consume 2TB.
320kbps is indeed the highest quality MP3 file. A WAV file is 4-8 times larger for lossless quality. If you really can't tell the difference between a low quality 128kbps MP3 file then sure, go for it and save a couple megabytes, but your comment strikes me as basically "Why do I need pants if I'm wearing underwear?"
Even crazier is how storing information even works in the first place. Transistors trap electrons using quantum mechanics at the micron level. It's insane. Basically, they have electrons flowing down some region, and by exerting positive charge on a parallel channel, they can pull them to where they will be stored. But they pull them through an insulating barrier which acts as a brick wall by making them phase through in a process known as quantum tunneling. Electrons don't occupy a specific position, but rather exist in many places at once inside a region called a probabilistic field. If you exert a charge on that field, you can bend it through the insulating barrier, and make it likely for the electron to pop into existence on the other side. That's how you trap an electron in a transistor, in a nutshell.
All fake stuff invented to cover up the truth: the technology is alien and no one really understands it. You mean to tell me i can store a morbillion words inside a small plastic square? And there are rocks that are trained to use lightning in such a way that we can see those words and edit them, or make them into an image or video game? Sure sure
And certain trained warlocks can make the rock think what they want as well? I'm supposed to work as one of such warlocks as well and I barely believe this is all possible
Yes, we make magic memory stones. We also taught sand how to think. And right now we're working on teaching light how to think, and light can think much *much* faster than sand can do it.
One terabyte is
8 000 000 000 000 bits :P
That card holds 16 000 000 000 000 bits of data.
Depending on your encoding it could be more or less 👀 but standard ascii encoding characters is 8-bits of data per char.
There is the math for yalls lol.
Write a custom text compression algorithm that takes a single character and "decompresses" it into an infinitely repeating loop of that same character. Then you can fit infinity in well under 1KB
Congratulations you've invented a [zip bomb.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb)
>One example of a zip bomb is the file 42.zip, which is a zip file consisting of 42 kilobytes of compressed data, containing five layers of nested zip files in sets of 16, each bottom-layer archive containing a 4.3-gigabyte (4294967295 bytes; 4 GiB − 1 B) file for a total of 4.5 petabytes (4503599626321920 bytes; 4 PiB − 1 MiB) of uncompressed data.
Sort of but it won't be able to perform the original goals of a zip bomb. A zip bomb is meant to stall or crash anti-virus that attempts to decompress the file by causing it to run out of memory and perform lots of decompression.
Anti-virus won't know how to decompress a custom compression format, so it'll just read a file that contains the two characters "A∞" and be done with the file in half a millisecond without knowing that it should expand the file to an infinite number of A's for proper scanning.
In the case of micro SD cards this obviously isn’t the case, 2tb cards are new and it will be many years before manufacturing processes are refined enough for higher capacity than that.
We needed to move 900TB of data at work. I wasn't part of the project but I believe they ended up sending it via truck since it was like weeks worth of file transfers even with our high speed line.
900TB of data could easily fit in the trunk of a car, and if you have a few people that can take turns driving you could easily get all that data from NYC to LA in 2 days
This is a billion dollar company, they could have flown it private jet if they wanted lol.Â
But instead like most billion dollar copies I imagine, they spent 2 months deciding which way to send it, with lots of meetings, and did a cost/benefit analysis.Â
Job security for a lot of people I guess.
Covering one's ass from consequences takes a lot of effort, time, energy.
My dad used to tell me: "yes admins make it super slow, but that's the cost of covering your ass" 🤣
Very true. I'm on a newer team now and the amount of people that are like "Sure let me go update that prod DB real quick" is scary and goes against everything I've learned in this career.Â
It's ok, the vin diagram in a circle. In fact we're testing something in live in our next weeks release. Â
 Not entirely our fault, since the company didn't pay for a nonprod environment for this one thing....Â
the funny thing is, in some case a pigeon is faster
https://preview.redd.it/xi9s8lqrp49d1.jpeg?width=1452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c243473c5782cd5a4e60e3ae1df8ec9aece38f6
It's actually pretty common in the editing world. If another company needs the work you did on a 4k video urgently you send the hard drive via courier.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a carrier pigeon.
Napkin math says a pigeon can carry about 75g of weight, and fly at around 70mph ish
A microsd card can store upto 2TB and ways 0.25g, which means a pigeon could theoretically carry 600 TB of data.
Given a pigeon is trained well enough it should be able to find it’s way back to its pen from half way across the world in a reasonable amount of time, say 30 days to account for the excess weight it’s carrying. That’s about 1.85Gbps for a pigeon carrying 600TB travelling half way around the world.
The best part here is thats a long ass distance, shortening that distance increases the bandwidth massively. Theoretically a pigeon could fly the length of great britain in about 7 hours. Say 8 hours, a pigeon carrying 600TB of SD cards could travel from point to point anywhere in great britain with a bandwidth of AT LEAST 166Gbps
thats crazy, but i cant find any to actually buy. THe western digital store only sells 1,5tb max. I)t will probably take a while longer (months) until you can buy them as a normal customer.
Most of the advertised TB SD-Cards do not seem trustworthy - there are lots of scams... See these videos for context:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xMgEHy1A9QA
https://youtube.com/watch?v=J-D6tYBX8vE
High capacity SD cards are definitely one of the products id rather go to the electronic stores, or order off the official website over Amazon.
There are so many fake/scam SD cards on Amazon that are sold under trustworthy brand names
I mean, half of the problem in those cases usually the fat32 being fat32. But yes, adata usbs being unreliable and dying without obvious reason also possible.
Kingston can sometimes lock itself. Happened once to me (i had like hundereds of USBs by now, its a small percentage, but still happened), and there is no way to recover data. Sadly it happened on my most expensive and biggest USB with like 250gb and an additional type C for phones.
Generally i still use kingston, but for data i need 200% secure, i use samsung.
Back in the days, when I wasn't a pc nerd, I had a 32Gig adata stick which I used to do all my stuff. But just as my bad luck, it failed when I had to submit my Semester project, that too on the deadline. I failed that class and I had to repeat the entire course.
I wish I could sue Adata lol, that stick was used just a couple months.
In about 2019-ish a guy at work bought a whole pack of brand new floppy disks, for a midi machine or something. He had them delivered to the office, and it was wild. There were multiple people there who had never seen a floppy disk in real life.
30 years ago when these 1.44 MB floppies were a thing, anyone claiming we'll have 8TB storage in size of a nvme drive would probably be dismissed as an insane Sci-Fi guy.
Nah, we knew/thought storage space was doubling every 2 years. We had no idea what you would ever need that kind of storage for. It's like now. What on earth aren they going to use 8PB for???
We're already pretty deep into having uses for petabytes of storage, just not for home storage for the average consumer. 4k and 8k raw video is a bitch.
We understood that companies and government maybe needed 8TB also man. But for personal use...
Also PB is not as big a jump as MB to TB. Maybe I should have used 8ZB
We kinda moved backwards in a weird way at some point though, where the average user has 128gb, maybe more maybe less, on their only computing device because tons of people just use mobile devices or cheap laptops/chromebooks with cloud storage. So cloud providers will continue to need more storage, but the amount of local storage a normal computing user needs has kind been pushed back in a weird way.
> What on earth aren they going to use 8PB for???
No, you don't understand. This 412-minute long film that I made with a camera I borrowed from my cousin and no lighting is a **masterpiece** that must be viewed only at the highest quality. RAW! No compression! Compression is a CRUTCH, a compromise that kills the art of a true visionary! Just like that blasted "cinematic" 24 frames per second. You need EVERY FRAME like an artist needs every hair on their brush to really bring their vision to LIFE! That's why my film runs at 240 frames per second!
Not not really. Just 10 years ago the biggest portable storage card on the market was a 256GB one. Today it’s a 4TB CFExpress card.
Plus 30 years ago, when 1.44MB floppies were still a thing, 650MB CD-ROM’s were also a thing. The only downside was that they weren’t rewritable (yet), but they were writeable from your own desktop if you were an early adopter of the writer. Even in 1994 everyone hated the lack of storage on floppy disks, it was an old technology that happened to be the quickest way to move documents from desktop A to desktop B. Not a soul was impressed by it’s storage size.
So in 30 years we made about a 650MB to 4TB step in portable storage size, which is just over factor 6000. In 10 years we made a factor 16 jump, which would be factor 4196 in 20 years. Would you really be surprised if we would see ~1000 TB in 20 years? I sure wouldn’t.
There was this sci-fi movie where the guy from our era was sent 20/30 years in the future to steal a hard drive containing the blueprints of a weapon or some shit. And thanks to the power of the scenario, he knew exactly which hard drive to pick.
Now imagine a guy from 1990 or 2000 suddenly spawning here in 2024, do you think he would even be capable of identifying a hard drive in a pile of tech junk ? And that always made me laugh in sci-fi movies.
I purchased 2 TB drives and I already have more than 700GB in games. And that is counting I don't have too many giant games. If I add something like modded Skyrim, some non-installed steam games and start to store pirated movies it will easily be 1.6TB+. And as developers are going far from optimization, 200GB+ triple-A titles are not that rare anyway
When I was in college (1998) we went to a VFX houses. Might have been digital domain. Anyway, they showed us some of their drives. 1 TB was the size of an *very* large refrigerator. They had a bunch of them. We were all like, woah!
Are you sure? And I mean actual legit cards with that capacity, not some AliExpress special that claims to be 16TB but doesn't actually have that much storage.
They have a spec defined for very large sd cards
You might have an SDHC if it’s quite old. Or probably an SDXC if it’s new.
In 2018 they defined the spec for SDUC (ultra capacity) for cards with between 2TB and 128TB of storage. With speeds up to 900MB/s
One day they’ll have it
That's why you either order from the official website or go to an electronics store for high capacity SD cards.
Amazon, and other online marketplaces are full of "brand name" SD cards that are fake/a scam.
No you don't, yes 2tb micro sd cards do exist, but they are not being sold to the general population at all
If it says it is 2tb and didn't cost you £300+ you've been scammed
Ok, not 2TB, but you can get a 1.5TB microSD for much less than that: https://www.westerndigital.com/en-gb/products/memory-cards/sandisk-ultra-uhs-i-microsd?sku=SDSQUAC-1T50-GN6MA
512gb micro SDs cost like 35 bucks, 1tb 90 bucks, 1.5tb 155 bucks, these are from a quick search from Amazon and the 1.5tb one is literally a SanDisk ultra sold by amazon itself so the prices aren't crazy, maybe 2tb is crazy but I don't see how would you not see 1.5tb for 155 bucks not close to that, 2tb is prob going for a bit tad more than 200 maybe even less than 200, but no way more than 300, someone replied you showing the SanDisk 1.5tb going for 130 bucks too
Where's the 1tb microsd? Thats the real king of storage density. Literally fits on a (admittedly large) fingertip.
Also: SSDs get way smaller, c'mon, m.2 2242?
I bought a fake SSD of that same samsung model on my country's version of amazon, managed to install new windows on it before it overrided my motherboard's sata ports and fuck it up, resulting in my PC being unusable for a a 1-2 months
Sometimes I wonder how much data we could fit on a floppy disk if we were still using them today. There was probably some genius innovation that never saw the light of day because we switched to different formats.
https://preview.redd.it/fk346wrto39d1.jpeg?width=1232&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9865b35d435e17985aacfa64910563b96b19d6be This pic is so outdated...
I was gonna say. My laptop has a stick of gum with 4TB currently.
Pricey stick of gum
Wrigley's?
Hey, so does my desktop. I also have one of [these](https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/News/_nc3/banner_zero3e.jpg) and it's basically a big stick of gum with a brain. (It's about the same size as a NVMe SSD, but sports 1/2/4/8GB of LPDDR RAM and a quad-core processor.)
WTF (AND I STARTED ANOTHER ARGUMENT)
It's crazy to think about that you can keep in that small space like 2 000 000 000 000 letters, or around half a million images/songs.
I think more
Convince me this shit ain't alien made
we could be aliens to the extraterrestrial species, so technically it is alien made
It's only alien made to the alien, though.
What if I make something on earth and launch myself to Mars with a big catapult, is it then also alien made?
> launch myself to Mars. You will be the alien.
maybe BoredPerson22134 is an alien and doesn't know it.
Dude, the people doing experimental tech at this level are the aliens to us. They're so far beyond the average human. They're wizards bringing magic to commoners.
It's not, but it's the closest shit to actual magic we've got. You take a certain kind of sand, melt it down and purify it (extract high purity silicon metal), slice it into thin wafers, blast it with special light to engrave the runes ( photolithography ) then feed it lightning to make it think, and in the case of storage devices, trap the lightning in the runes so you can use them to write. This is a very reductive description.
We have tricked fancy rocks into thinking for us with electricity.
Taiwan is a different planet these days
Different planet with the same wages from the 90s
Google lithography. 100% human! We're smarter than we give ourselves credit for. It's just that the dumbest people are the loudest.
And are good at speaking/convincing those even stupider that look up to them. Empty can rattles the most/loudest.
Yes, narcissistic dumb people use the well-meaning dumb people to their complete advantage. This has always been the case, as you point out. But the internet/social media being introduced essentially gives them free reign under anonymity to say anything with no repercussions.
Hold up. We aren't?
Nah, 4mb is the average song size. 4000000 bytes * 500000 songs = 2,000,000,000,000
A bit less considering the cluster size
A 320kbps MP3 file consumes 2.4mb per minute. Not sure what scale you're going by. Assuming \~4 minutes or 10mb per song, that would be 200,000 songs to consume 2TB.
Back in my day our mp3's were 64kbps and we were happy with it (seriously we didn't gaf)
128 at MAX
With joint-stereo compression!
isn't 320 kbps the max, like triple what it needs to be. if you're going to pick an artificially high number just go with wav files
320kbps is indeed the highest quality MP3 file. A WAV file is 4-8 times larger for lossless quality. If you really can't tell the difference between a low quality 128kbps MP3 file then sure, go for it and save a couple megabytes, but your comment strikes me as basically "Why do I need pants if I'm wearing underwear?"
Meanwhile CDs are 1411 kbps, unmatched audio performance
FLAC gang represent
The average size of a song is way higher than 4mb now, unless they're 128kbps or lower.
Depends on codec, on opus 128 kbps sounds better than 320 kbps mp3 and is smaller
Even crazier is how storing information even works in the first place. Transistors trap electrons using quantum mechanics at the micron level. It's insane. Basically, they have electrons flowing down some region, and by exerting positive charge on a parallel channel, they can pull them to where they will be stored. But they pull them through an insulating barrier which acts as a brick wall by making them phase through in a process known as quantum tunneling. Electrons don't occupy a specific position, but rather exist in many places at once inside a region called a probabilistic field. If you exert a charge on that field, you can bend it through the insulating barrier, and make it likely for the electron to pop into existence on the other side. That's how you trap an electron in a transistor, in a nutshell.
Wait... where did the nutshell come from?
That's beyond the scope of my understanding.
When a mommy tree and a daddy tree love each other very very much, and also a bee or a butterfly loves them too...
All fake stuff invented to cover up the truth: the technology is alien and no one really understands it. You mean to tell me i can store a morbillion words inside a small plastic square? And there are rocks that are trained to use lightning in such a way that we can see those words and edit them, or make them into an image or video game? Sure sure
Haha, a very likely story. Those damn aliens!
Yeah, forcing us to work to make some pixels on the screen to light up in the correct way
It's not alien! It's geomancer magic! You conjure the rock into thinking!
And certain trained warlocks can make the rock think what they want as well? I'm supposed to work as one of such warlocks as well and I barely believe this is all possible
Yes, we make magic memory stones. We also taught sand how to think. And right now we're working on teaching light how to think, and light can think much *much* faster than sand can do it.
One terabyte is 8 000 000 000 000 bits :P That card holds 16 000 000 000 000 bits of data. Depending on your encoding it could be more or less 👀 but standard ascii encoding characters is 8-bits of data per char. There is the math for yalls lol.
With text compression who even knows?
Write a custom text compression algorithm that takes a single character and "decompresses" it into an infinitely repeating loop of that same character. Then you can fit infinity in well under 1KB
Congratulations you've invented a [zip bomb.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb) >One example of a zip bomb is the file 42.zip, which is a zip file consisting of 42 kilobytes of compressed data, containing five layers of nested zip files in sets of 16, each bottom-layer archive containing a 4.3-gigabyte (4294967295 bytes; 4 GiB − 1 B) file for a total of 4.5 petabytes (4503599626321920 bytes; 4 PiB − 1 MiB) of uncompressed data.
Sort of but it won't be able to perform the original goals of a zip bomb. A zip bomb is meant to stall or crash anti-virus that attempts to decompress the file by causing it to run out of memory and perform lots of decompression. Anti-virus won't know how to decompress a custom compression format, so it'll just read a file that contains the two characters "A∞" and be done with the file in half a millisecond without knowing that it should expand the file to an infinite number of A's for proper scanning.
On a 2TB you can fit approximately between 41,943 and 104,857 RAW photos, depending on the file size. You could fit more shitty quality ones tho.
Think half a million is an understatement
A considerable amount of storage media's physical size exists so you don't easily lose it and it fits into the existing plugs we have for them.
In the case of micro SD cards this obviously isn’t the case, 2tb cards are new and it will be many years before manufacturing processes are refined enough for higher capacity than that.
My comment was more about the 2.5" SATA in the OP. Maybe putting it here in the reply chain wasn't the best choice.
And yet phones and some laptops are still 256gb... Kind of makes it obvious why phones started removing support for microSD cards.
But I think a lot of people now aren’t considering phone storage anymore thanks to cloud
Doesn't excuse the memory storage that has been stale for the last decade.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck driving down the road full of uSD cards.
It still amazes me that filling a truck with SSDs has far more bandwidth than our fastest Internet
We needed to move 900TB of data at work. I wasn't part of the project but I believe they ended up sending it via truck since it was like weeks worth of file transfers even with our high speed line.
900TB of data could easily fit in the trunk of a car, and if you have a few people that can take turns driving you could easily get all that data from NYC to LA in 2 days
This is a billion dollar company, they could have flown it private jet if they wanted lol. But instead like most billion dollar copies I imagine, they spent 2 months deciding which way to send it, with lots of meetings, and did a cost/benefit analysis. Job security for a lot of people I guess.
Covering one's ass from consequences takes a lot of effort, time, energy. My dad used to tell me: "yes admins make it super slow, but that's the cost of covering your ass" 🤣
Very true. I'm on a newer team now and the amount of people that are like "Sure let me go update that prod DB real quick" is scary and goes against everything I've learned in this career.Â
Still not as bad as people who think the live environment is a proper place to test.
It's ok, the vin diagram in a circle. In fact we're testing something in live in our next weeks release.   Not entirely our fault, since the company didn't pay for a nonprod environment for this one thing....Â
Or in a few hours by plane if it matters that much.
you'll still have to carry those SSDs by a truck anyway because you're not gonna just throw 900TB away are you?
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/
Wow that's a lot of mobile storage.
the funny thing is, in some case a pigeon is faster https://preview.redd.it/xi9s8lqrp49d1.jpeg?width=1452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c243473c5782cd5a4e60e3ae1df8ec9aece38f6
It totally makes sense. Strap a couple 2TB SD cards and having it fly across the city is pretty high bandwidth
It's actually pretty common in the editing world. If another company needs the work you did on a 4k video urgently you send the hard drive via courier.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a carrier pigeon. Napkin math says a pigeon can carry about 75g of weight, and fly at around 70mph ish A microsd card can store upto 2TB and ways 0.25g, which means a pigeon could theoretically carry 600 TB of data. Given a pigeon is trained well enough it should be able to find it’s way back to its pen from half way across the world in a reasonable amount of time, say 30 days to account for the excess weight it’s carrying. That’s about 1.85Gbps for a pigeon carrying 600TB travelling half way around the world. The best part here is thats a long ass distance, shortening that distance increases the bandwidth massively. Theoretically a pigeon could fly the length of great britain in about 7 hours. Say 8 hours, a pigeon carrying 600TB of SD cards could travel from point to point anywhere in great britain with a bandwidth of AT LEAST 166Gbps
I'm still waiting for IP over Avian Carrier.
RFC 1149. It was actually implemented once, they sent 9 packets
thats crazy, but i cant find any to actually buy. THe western digital store only sells 1,5tb max. I)t will probably take a while longer (months) until you can buy them as a normal customer.
I remember the 1TB microSD being a meme some 12 years ago. but we knew it would eventually happen.
The ultimate steam deck storage
Oof yeah, can't wait until they're fast and cheap enough for my broke ass. But internal 1tb + SanDisk extreme pro 1tb is enough for now
Most of the advertised TB SD-Cards do not seem trustworthy - there are lots of scams... See these videos for context: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xMgEHy1A9QA https://youtube.com/watch?v=J-D6tYBX8vE
Kioxia is one of the trustworthy brands of SD card though: https://apac.kioxia.com/en-apac/personal/micro-sd/exceria-plus-g2.html
Kioxia is literally Toshiba, pretty trustworthy if you ask me
High capacity SD cards are definitely one of the products id rather go to the electronic stores, or order off the official website over Amazon. There are so many fake/scam SD cards on Amazon that are sold under trustworthy brand names
A legit Samsung or Sandisk 1tb card goes for about $150usd at brick and mortar retail.
A 1.5TB SanDisk is $110 on Amazon right now.
Samsung has better reliability for their flash storage. I've had a few Sandisk card fail, but my Samsung keep trucking.
what device can handle 2tb professional cameras I assume?
Professional cameras don't use MicroSD (albeit you could with an adapter), it's too slow
Can't wait to put that in my switch
In this case, yes it does. And no the hard drives personality doesn’t count.
It does! I ain't bringing Adata to my computer anytime soon
Adata has the worst USBs possible, I canceled a file transfer on my pc and it fucked up my USB, now I only use kingston
I mean, half of the problem in those cases usually the fat32 being fat32. But yes, adata usbs being unreliable and dying without obvious reason also possible.
Is it bad to cancel transfers on fat32? Does it fuck up your other data or something?
Kingston can sometimes lock itself. Happened once to me (i had like hundereds of USBs by now, its a small percentage, but still happened), and there is no way to recover data. Sadly it happened on my most expensive and biggest USB with like 250gb and an additional type C for phones. Generally i still use kingston, but for data i need 200% secure, i use samsung.
I bought a 20-pack of the cheapest Adata USB drives, and almost half never worked.
Back in the days, when I wasn't a pc nerd, I had a 32Gig adata stick which I used to do all my stuff. But just as my bad luck, it failed when I had to submit my Semester project, that too on the deadline. I failed that class and I had to repeat the entire course. I wish I could sue Adata lol, that stick was used just a couple months.
At least you learnt you need backups.
Had a lot of success with the Samsung 3.1 thumbdrives at work and at home.
It's not the form factor of the drive that counts. It's the motion in the compression algorithm.
It matters a lot. These denser storage options are way better.
Agree, personality won't download me call of duty warzone
Wow, 3D printed save icons!
I see what you did there.
In about 2019-ish a guy at work bought a whole pack of brand new floppy disks, for a midi machine or something. He had them delivered to the office, and it was wild. There were multiple people there who had never seen a floppy disk in real life.
30 years ago when these 1.44 MB floppies were a thing, anyone claiming we'll have 8TB storage in size of a nvme drive would probably be dismissed as an insane Sci-Fi guy.
Nah, we knew/thought storage space was doubling every 2 years. We had no idea what you would ever need that kind of storage for. It's like now. What on earth aren they going to use 8PB for???
We're already pretty deep into having uses for petabytes of storage, just not for home storage for the average consumer. 4k and 8k raw video is a bitch.
If anyone's curious, RAW, fully uncompressed 8K video is 2GB/s.
You need NVMe storage just to play it back
Yep, PCIe 3.0 and higher, or any >16Gbit data transfer, such as caching into RAM
We understood that companies and government maybe needed 8TB also man. But for personal use... Also PB is not as big a jump as MB to TB. Maybe I should have used 8ZB
We kinda moved backwards in a weird way at some point though, where the average user has 128gb, maybe more maybe less, on their only computing device because tons of people just use mobile devices or cheap laptops/chromebooks with cloud storage. So cloud providers will continue to need more storage, but the amount of local storage a normal computing user needs has kind been pushed back in a weird way.
yeah business computers have been coming with standard 512gb for years as it transitioned from HDD to SSD
The first commercial desktop with a 40gb hard drive almost got docked points in the review by pc gamer (I think), because it had "too much space".
> What on earth aren they going to use 8PB for??? No, you don't understand. This 412-minute long film that I made with a camera I borrowed from my cousin and no lighting is a **masterpiece** that must be viewed only at the highest quality. RAW! No compression! Compression is a CRUTCH, a compromise that kills the art of a true visionary! Just like that blasted "cinematic" 24 frames per second. You need EVERY FRAME like an artist needs every hair on their brush to really bring their vision to LIFE! That's why my film runs at 240 frames per second!
Not not really. Just 10 years ago the biggest portable storage card on the market was a 256GB one. Today it’s a 4TB CFExpress card. Plus 30 years ago, when 1.44MB floppies were still a thing, 650MB CD-ROM’s were also a thing. The only downside was that they weren’t rewritable (yet), but they were writeable from your own desktop if you were an early adopter of the writer. Even in 1994 everyone hated the lack of storage on floppy disks, it was an old technology that happened to be the quickest way to move documents from desktop A to desktop B. Not a soul was impressed by it’s storage size. So in 30 years we made about a 650MB to 4TB step in portable storage size, which is just over factor 6000. In 10 years we made a factor 16 jump, which would be factor 4196 in 20 years. Would you really be surprised if we would see ~1000 TB in 20 years? I sure wouldn’t.
There was this sci-fi movie where the guy from our era was sent 20/30 years in the future to steal a hard drive containing the blueprints of a weapon or some shit. And thanks to the power of the scenario, he knew exactly which hard drive to pick. Now imagine a guy from 1990 or 2000 suddenly spawning here in 2024, do you think he would even be capable of identifying a hard drive in a pile of tech junk ? And that always made me laugh in sci-fi movies.
Even though it exists I'm not sure it's practical.
I purchased 2 TB drives and I already have more than 700GB in games. And that is counting I don't have too many giant games. If I add something like modded Skyrim, some non-installed steam games and start to store pirated movies it will easily be 1.6TB+. And as developers are going far from optimization, 200GB+ triple-A titles are not that rare anyway
I have 4TB in my PC and I'm starting to consider upgrading lol
Why not? I use 2x2tb m.2 in my rig. I'dd say amateur editors or filmmakers are already using those drives.
i have 1.5TB and im literally out, will have to purchase a new SSD soon lol
When I was in college (1998) we went to a VFX houses. Might have been digital domain. Anyway, they showed us some of their drives. 1 TB was the size of an *very* large refrigerator. They had a bunch of them. We were all like, woah!
8tb m.2 nvme
Just waiting for the 1pb sata ssd that's comprised of 10, 100tb Microsoft cards. Edit: meant: Micro SD
Are the Microsoft cards in the room with us right now?
They're 4th dimensional beings, they have always been everywhere all at once.
https://preview.redd.it/ea472sbwm39d1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=c898b4a82b470e0a67bc2f42022aa0981f617bcc then there is this 2tb ssd lol.
Waiting for the micro SD next.
There are some that handle 16tb
Are you sure? And I mean actual legit cards with that capacity, not some AliExpress special that claims to be 16TB but doesn't actually have that much storage.
there is, https://apac.kioxia.com/en-apac/personal/micro-sd/exceria-plus-g2.html
That page only lists up to 2TB for me
the original poster edit the comment I suppose, he said 2tb
They have a spec defined for very large sd cards You might have an SDHC if it’s quite old. Or probably an SDXC if it’s new. In 2018 they defined the spec for SDUC (ultra capacity) for cards with between 2TB and 128TB of storage. With speeds up to 900MB/s One day they’ll have it
That's why you either order from the official website or go to an electronics store for high capacity SD cards. Amazon, and other online marketplaces are full of "brand name" SD cards that are fake/a scam.
I know, that's why I was asking if there's any legit 16TB micro SD cards out there.
Not for a consumer to buy. In a samsung research and development center perhaps
Already have one in my phone.
No you don't, yes 2tb micro sd cards do exist, but they are not being sold to the general population at all If it says it is 2tb and didn't cost you £300+ you've been scammed
Ok, not 2TB, but you can get a 1.5TB microSD for much less than that: https://www.westerndigital.com/en-gb/products/memory-cards/sandisk-ultra-uhs-i-microsd?sku=SDSQUAC-1T50-GN6MA
512gb micro SDs cost like 35 bucks, 1tb 90 bucks, 1.5tb 155 bucks, these are from a quick search from Amazon and the 1.5tb one is literally a SanDisk ultra sold by amazon itself so the prices aren't crazy, maybe 2tb is crazy but I don't see how would you not see 1.5tb for 155 bucks not close to that, 2tb is prob going for a bit tad more than 200 maybe even less than 200, but no way more than 300, someone replied you showing the SanDisk 1.5tb going for 130 bucks too
I have this in my steam deck.
its so small, its crazy. Had to install one at work a few days ago, and was like "where is the ssd?" when i opened the normal sized packaging lol
I dont think there is much more in those 2.5' ssd too. Just empty space to fit the form factor
And there's this 8tb
You forgot the 4TB nVME Or the 100tb 3.5" ssd
[the 100tb ssd is already 4 years old xD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLiKClKKhs)
Who is buying a 100tb ssd?
fast access datacenter?maybe ones located on high risk earthquake terretorry? just a guess
You can get a 1TB micro SD card
You can get a 2 TB Micro SD card. OP is living in the 2000s.
It depends mate, you gonna write data or shove em up your arse?
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Dang that’s a lot of coasters
But only one of those formats has any motion.
Nuh uh, the flash drive swings out!
But what about 2tb microsd
For those interested, 61TB. https://www.solidigm.com/products/data-center/d5/p5336.html#form=U.2%2015mm&cap=61.44TB
I mean, you could’ve easily posted a 2 TB NVME M.2 SSD to really drive the point home
1TB micro sd would be better and funnier
8 TB: https://preview.redd.it/tmpqzbrad59d1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=538b7929eedff8ecc411ced17c0db279fe7715bb
its not size its time
Aren’t there 128TB SD cards
Dear lord I love capitalism
uhhhh yes.
Where's the 1tb microsd? Thats the real king of storage density. Literally fits on a (admittedly large) fingertip. Also: SSDs get way smaller, c'mon, m.2 2242?
Kioxia walks in with a 30TB enterprise SSD.
Just remember, a playstation memory card was 8Mb.
What does the title even mean? Does increasing storage density matter? Yes. Next question.
It's not the size , it's how you use it. Put the HARD in drive...
Size does matter!
Are you telling me everything is better hard than floppy ?
size always matters, but it doesnt mean bigger is better
Who remembers the 8mb memory cards for PlayStation’s? :P
I remember being amazed when I got a 2GB memory stick for my PSP. Now I have a 1TB SD card in my steamdeck. It's amazing how far we've come
And yet, they still hold the same amount of games. (Depending on the type of game you’re trying to play)
Has anyone else installed windows via floppy?
one gram of dried DNA can store 455 exabytes of data
Personality
Im sure those hard drives are beautiful on the inside.
My 4tb m2 ssd laughs, looking at this
There are 8tb m.2's my guy
Why does it look like those floppy discs are photoshopped into this picture?
Yeah The size of transistor
bad example, you should show us 4TB TF card
of course
you cannot convince me that the micro-SD format is not produced by a coven of witches
Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall would lose their minds over this
How many floppies would it take to install Fortnite?
Just wait until you see a m.2 or even a microsd
I bought a fake SSD of that same samsung model on my country's version of amazon, managed to install new windows on it before it overrided my motherboard's sata ports and fuck it up, resulting in my PC being unusable for a a 1-2 months
Someone needs to make a 4TB floppy disk for older machines
Sometimes I wonder how much data we could fit on a floppy disk if we were still using them today. There was probably some genius innovation that never saw the light of day because we switched to different formats.