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quakerboy

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6. They have 32 GB microSD cards now

Sat Jan 28, 2012, 05:08 PM

Jan 2012

33,000 of those(give or take) and you have your pb.

I believe that is significantly smaller than your average desktop(not counting the hardware to read them). Someone else can check my math if so inclined. According to wikipedia a MicroSD card is 11 mm by 15 mm by 1 mm.

At a cost of only 1 million, not including hardware to read the cards.

Petarack bah. I want to be able to fit it in my dash box, so I have a mobile petabyte.

On edit: the 64 gb card someone posted, if I have my mental math right, takes the total size of a petabyte done that way down to laptop, maybe even netbook size. And at only 154 each, the cost drops to a mere 2.5 million.

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What does 1PB of storage look like? [View all] Initech Jan 2012 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #1

imagine two hundred million washing machines pokerfan Jan 2012 #2

. baldguy Jan 2012 #3

Here's a 32Gb. hobbit709 Jan 2012 #4

And now we have 64GB microSDXC... 3waygeek Jan 2012 #5

Here's a 256GB pokerfan Jan 2012 #9

And I thought I was bleeding edge with my first 256 mB thumbie... BiggJawn Jan 2012 #21

They have 32 GB microSD cards now quakerboy Jan 2012 #6

The hardware to read the cards is $9.99 Initech Jan 2012 #10

I have approximately 13 of them. I paid approximately $0.37 quakerboy Jan 2012 #12

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two words pokerfan Jan 2012 #14

That's a cute way to deal with it. I've got three 7-port USB hubs. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #18

It works to a point pokerfan Jan 2012 #19

Yes, but it is sort of like SCSI - you can only chain so far. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #20

delete wrong place pokerfan Jan 2012 #22

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Reminds me of Project Hydra pokerfan Jan 2012 #24

I give up pokerfan Jan 2012 #25

You replied 4 times. Good read! HopeHoops Jan 2012 #26

For some reason pokerfan Jan 2012 #27

I wonder what song they kept on that thing Enrique Jan 2012 #15

Probably Elvis' "Don't Be Cruel." 2ndAmForComputers Jan 2012 #16

I remember increasing my memory from 4Kb Turbineguy Jan 2012 #7

One Pizza Byte undeterred Jan 2012 #8

Now known as "peta-files" tjwash Jan 2012 #11

My first 5 mb looked like this: Iterate Jan 2012 #17