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posted by martyb on Friday May 17 2019, @02:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the takes-minimum-of-4.6-hours-to-fill-it dept.

CNet:

SanDisk is letting you put 1TB of data on a card the size of a fingernail.

The company's massive-but-minute Extreme microSD UHS-I Card is now available for $450, months after its reveal at Mobile World Congress.

The product page, reported earlier by Tom's Guide, notes read speeds up to 90MB/s and write speeds up to 60MB/s, which is a little slower than the world's fastest flash memory option that SanDisk promised at MWC.

Now you can lose even more data in the washing machine or in the detritus in the bottom of your attache.


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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday May 17 2019, @08:40PM (4 children)

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Friday May 17 2019, @08:40PM (#844827)

    640k out to be enough for everybody

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 17 2019, @08:47PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday May 17 2019, @08:47PM (#844830)

    640k out to be enough for everybody

    If all you're doing are text documents, no graphics, no multimedia - that's actually pretty true, for 95% of everybody, at least.

    In 1987 I was doing spreadsheets for FDOT in Lotus 1-2-3 that were so big they were blowing out the 640K limit - had to make multiple files and chain their summary results together with some godforsaken script.

    By 1992, I was writing code using the PharLap 32 bit DOS extender, and that pretty much covered our real-world needs for some time.

    In 2005, I bought an AMD64 based PC and started doing 30"x24" 360dpi full color artwork, that did kind of blow out the 32 bit limit, by a little bit at least.

    But, for 95+% of users, yeah.

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    • (Score: 1) by ShadowSystems on Saturday May 18 2019, @07:29AM (2 children)

      by ShadowSystems (6185) <ShadowSystemsNO@SPAMGmail.com> on Saturday May 18 2019, @07:29AM (#844960)

      640Kb isn't enough for plain text files, I can assure you.
      I've got over 110Mb worth of plain text files dedicated to D&D 3.5Ed in one directory alone.
      There's nearly 750Mb of SR4 files in another.
      Those aren't PDF, pictures, nor anything *but* plain text files.
      And that's just what's on my primary drive, the Archive drive has so much more it makes me heave a happy sigh of contentment.
      I could *very easily* fill a 1Tb card with my Archive data.
      In fact I'd need a few of those cards to back it all up.
      So 640Kb might be enough for some folks, but for anyone that requires plain text files to get stuff done, there are *individual text files* that shatter that limit like a Ming vase at ground zero of a planet killer meteore strike.
      =-j

      I just wish I had the money to afford such a card.
      I'd put one in my FeaturePhone, my audio book player, one in the computer dedicated to "Ready Boost", one in the MP3 player, one in my ear canal filled with copies of English-to-$Language translation dictionaries for use as a BabelFish, one in my mother's cars' SatNav for storing maps, another in my StepDad's trucks' SatNav for the same reason, one in her phone, one in his, one in the dash cameras, one in the security cameras around the property, on...
      I'd find ways to use them all!
      Now shut up & take my money!
      =-D

      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday May 18 2019, @12:49PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday May 18 2019, @12:49PM (#844995)

        To be fair: the 640KB "quote" didn't refer to disk storage, but to RAM.

        Sure, you've got MB worth of text files offline (which could be put in a microSD card today), but it's hard to assert that you "need" to look at 640 pages of text in RAM... even a 100 page document is probably "enough" for a chapter, and if you are writing a book, just store your chapters separately.

        One of my favorite documentation anecdotes came from the nuclear sub program, where the documents required to create the sub outweighed the sub itself. Not some little attack sub, one of the big boomers. That's a great case for electronic documentation, and storing the documents in a hyperlinked wiki structure. Now, if a page of paper is roughly 1KB of text, and weighs roughly 0.16 ounces, and an Ohio class submarine weighs 16500 long tons, that's roughly 3.7 billion pages of paper, or 3.7TB of text - at a minimum - considering much of the documentation contained technical drawings which are more information dense than text, 10TB would not be an unreasonable guess at the documentation storage requirements to create the first Ohio class submarine.

        But, even though the whole package is 10TB, can anyone really "grok" more than 640KB of information at a time from a screen? Of course they can, a single 1920x1080 color image is 8MB raw, but text, maybe not so much.

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      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday May 18 2019, @12:54PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday May 18 2019, @12:54PM (#844997)

        my audio book player

        Think about that one for a minute: how long does 1TB of audio-book play? Do you have that much lifetime remaining? 25MB per hour, 1TB is about 7 years at 16 hours per day, if you listen to audiobooks at a rate of 2 hours per day that's closer to 56 years.

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