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on Friday May 17 2019, @02:42PM
from the takes-minimum-of-4.6-hours-to-fill-it dept.
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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The Official Colorado State Vegetable is now the "state legislator".
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday May 18 2019, @12:49PM
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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