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You Could Easily Swallow This 32-GB MicroSD Card

3/22/2010 / Published Work, Wired; , , ,

electron microscope photo of cross-section of 32GB microSD card

Two — no, three — things in life are sure: Death, taxes, and the fact that storage manufacturers will continue to cram ever-more ridiculous quantities of memory into tinier packages.

SanDisk announced a new 32-GB microSDHC card on Monday, effectively doubling the maximum storage capacity of the tiny, less-than-dime-sized memory chips found in many modern smartphones.… Read the rest

In the Future, One CF Card Will Hold 200 Years’ Worth of Porn | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

2/22/2010 / Published Work, Wired; , , ,

compactflash-188-zillion

Someday, you’ll be able to fit as much data in a small, square CompactFlash card as AT&T carries on its entire network in a week.

In theory at least, version 5 of the CompactFlash standard will allow CF cards to hold 188 petabytes of data.… Read the rest

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