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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Micro-SD storage capacities are getting insane....
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9921 |
I bought a 512GB ADATA micro-SD card the other week. I then copied ALL of my Star Trek collection to it. ALL of it. To a medium smaller then my thumb-nail.  This TINY card, now has ALL of my Star Trek collection on it, albeit in ripped MP4 files. The Original Series(TOS) The Next Generation(TNG) Voyager(VOY) Enterprise(ENT) Deep Space Nine(DS9) Discovery(STD) Picard(STP) INCLUDING all of the extras from the source DVD's. This card is really only for playback, so read-only, for all intents and purposes. Should last a long time like that, although, this is only ONE copy of many backups if you know what I mean - not counting the original source DVD's themselves. Isn't technology amazing? (rhetorical) .....and 512GB is not even the biggest micro-SD card you can get now.... Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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TassyJim Guru  Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6499 |
Things are certainly getting smaller. I was looking at my reel-to-reel tape recorder in the shed yesterday wondering if the tapes I have are still usable. They will probably disintegrate if I try without conditioning them first. On another note, this loop-recorder is fantastic.  It slips under the skin and monitors the heart continually. It records anything it finds "interesting". Your mobile phone talks to it regularly and downloads any recordings to send to the cloud storage and then on to the cardiologist. 5 year guaranteed battery life. I'm getting mine removed in a few weeks and I will ask to keep it as a souvenir. It will be classed as medical waste so not much chance of being able to keep it. It is getting upgraded to a full pacemaker which is just as amazing for what it can do in a small package. Jim VK7JH MMedit |
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Chopperp Guru Joined: 03/01/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1122 |
I've still got the very first SD card (full size) I purchased many years ago. It was for a digital camera. It was a whopping 32MB & cost about $36. @TassyJim. I had a pacemaker fitted about 6 weeks ago to keep my heart rate at or above 60bpm. They gave me a bluetooth, 4G bedside monitor thingy which took up a lot of space. Ditched it after a few weeks. There is an phone app available didn't try that. My smart watch does a good job of monitoring. Brian ChopperP |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8703 |
I bet you can get "30TB" ones on AliExpress now. ;) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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mclout999 Guru Joined: 05/07/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 504 |
Both my. Stream decks have 2TB Cards. That I got on Amazon Prime Day for ridiculous prices. I have a 1.5 terabyte in my. Retroid Pocket 5, once again at a steal on Amazon Prime Day. The only thing that bothers me about SD cards is that they invariably fail miserably And you lose all your data. I've had so many SD cards Randomly fail. It really hurts when you think of the current prices of the things, and worry about having to replace them, which I currently Couldn't! They call me Shai-Hulud (The maker) |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8703 |
I have a "pride of place" almost certainly fake Sony microSD card. It's marked 256MB and looks, to my eyes anyway, completely genuine. It came in the usual difficult to open packaging, once again appearing to be genuine. However, it only has 16k of space, all at the beginning, in the directory area. The rest of it is unpopulated. So, you write to it and the directory lists all your file information correctly but in actual fact your data went into a bit bucket. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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twofingers Guru Joined: 02/06/2014 Location: GermanyPosts: 1730 |
Perhaps one should use "H2bench" for SD-cards from untrusted sources? Regards Michael causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence |
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