Ever think about just how far technology has come in your lifetime, let alone a few years? Check out Trev's walk down memory lane with Floppy Disks jumping right up to the biggest MicroSD card we could find!
Reminds of when a friend of mine back in 2004 had a MicroSD 512MB in his hand and said "Look, just how far we've come" and pointed to the small SD card looking very impressed how so much data as 512MB could fit in that small space. I also remember saying to him that in probably 10 years you will be laughing at your statement and we will see 128GB or even 1TB sizes on the same card size.
Now, imagine all that storage potential being wasted on even higher resolution textures for video games -and barely used assets- and 8K video edits that no one wants to spend on the bandwidth to watch.
imagine how ridiculous 1tb will be in 10 years and we will have 10tb sd cards. If someone is reading this 10 years from now, please tell me if its true
What a trip down memory lane. I remember the old computers in my Elementary school in the mid 1990s, I was in love with my Sony Walkman, THEN when I was around 12 or 13, I got my first CD player headphone set, and thought and acted like I was big shot. Then in 2015 when I got my first smartphone through AT&T, as at that time I worked as a premises technician, so I was able to get the employee discount, and brought a 128 GB micro SD for that phone, and I didn't think I would even see 256 GB micro SD. Only 4 yrs later I was completely blown away when Lexon announced the 1TB micro SD, at the time when it was in prototype stage, i think late 2018.
I remember how expensive 1GB Flash Drives were 10 years ago. My mom bought one for about $150. Now I am working and I just bought a 512GB SD Card for $120. Crazy how far we've come.
@@2hotflavored666 Customer websites. B.t.w., it didn't work. I did manage to save about 20GB of movies and pictures. And I did test the chip, but I don't remember where it started failing, but that supposedly 1 TB micro-SD is no such thing. It does have some usable memory, but nowhere near 1 terabpyte.
Thanks Trev, great little trip down memory lane. Those were the days, endless late nights restoring Windows with the Floppies. But enjoyed every minute and learnt so much back then.
Just bought my first 1tb MicroSD card and I can't get over it. I've had multi terabyte drives.. Both SSD and HDD.. I've had Micro SD cards.. Dozens.. But looking at a terabyte inside of a card the size of my pinky nail is just unreal. It blows my mind.
Very enjoyable comparison. The use of the old 1.44mb disks was brilliant to highlight the change in storage capacity but also how much the underlying software has grown. My first computer, an Osborne 386, SX16 only came with the 1.44 drive and not the older and larger floppy disk. I thought I was state of the art with that and 2mb RAM and 40 mb HDD.
I remember when the 3.5” 1.44Mb floppy disc was a gamer changer. Wow! All that data in your back pocket. I couldn’t see technology progressing far beyond this at the time.
I remember watching my Dad install the original Doom from a CD in 1993 on our Windows PC. A few days ago, I showed my Dad a Steam Deck that I purchased and added a 1 TB Micro SD card, and my entire catalog of games from Steam and emulators fit on the tiny sd card. We reminisced about how far we've come in the PC world. It's pretty mind bending. My Dad still has a large storage of PC game floppy discs, CDs and DVDs, and my 1tb card could easily fit his entire catalog of games several times over. And all he wanted to watch me play was Doom lol. Good times.
just the begining, look up "DNA used for storage". Spoiler alert, you could fit all of facebook in half of a poppyseed worth of DNA. While extremely experimental and not for consumers yet, it shows what we could potentially expect in the future.
I think back to video game cartridges and now it's possible to have thousands and thousands of roms on 1 small sd card - it really is science fiction stuff.
The first SD card I bought back in 2007 was 4GB. It was more than enough for what I needed. Now they're already massproducing a 2TB microSD that's supposed to be released this year(2024).
Thank you! I remember thinking that the 1,44 MB of floppy disks would be the absolute maximum capacity you could fit in such a flat space 😅 But I still think no one will ever reach Proxima B.
I was born in 2003 and very vividly remember the time when I got into tech and the price for a gigabyte of flash storage in an USB stick or SD card was, at first more than, and later, exactly 1€ per gigabyte and I stuck with that 1€/GB thinking for way too long :D
Glory days of floppy drive. I was a freshman in college, my new roommate was moving in and he brought his latest 486DX machine running Linux, how did you get it installed I asked, he took out a shoe box full of floppies.
I now own one of those ridiculous cards because of a conversation that went went like this: Roughly translated from german: Other person: You will never be able to fill this card up by normal usage. Me: Challenge accepted.
@@markknoop6283 Indeed it's just sad that our monetary system is working in the opposite direction trying to inflate and make things more expensive. I think technology and it's deflationary tendencies will win out over central bankers.
$900?! Where are you shopping where it costs $900 for this? At Best Buy, these retail for $500. I bought 2 of them. One was on sale for $190 for Black Friday but dropped to $140 because I used a $50 giftcard that came bundled with a tablet purchase. The other is the same card and was on sale for $220 before I got the $190 deal. Expensive still. But more attainable and justifiable in the $200 range. $500 to $900 is just insane. I have been looking around. I haven't seen any other promos that bring these down to $140 like the last one I bought but hopefully we see some price cuts soon.
OMG - $500 a BEST BUY? That would only cost me $5,000 in airfares and two weeks in quarantine to buy... because THERE ARE OTHER COUNTRIES OUTSIDE OF AMERICA Kendall!!
@@EFTM I know there are other countries...But you said $900. 900 dollars. I thought you were talking about U.S. currency. I didn't realize prices were that drastically different unless you were talking about another type of currency. No need to respond so hastily.
@@EFTM I didn't say it was. But you did not specify what kind of dollars you were referring to. That's why I asked where you are buying from where it's $900...
A 3.5-inch floppy holds 1.4Mb - therefore 714 such disks to a 1gb - therefore 1000gb = 1tb Therefore as stated, around 714,000 floppy disks = 1tb With a 1tb amount of data on f3.5 inch floppies which are 3 mm thick would result in a pile 2km high ( 1.2 miles high) !! - all now stored on a disk the size of my small fingernail - and they say dolphins are clever!
Update: It's crap. I have 24.6 GB of pictures and videos on it, but when I tested it, I think it capped out at about 30 GB. Also, for some reason it failed yesterday, and I had to reformat it. Short answer, if you see a 1 TB SD card for sale on Amazon or eBay, it's a scam. Even the reseller closed his account after selling a few dozen to suckers like me.
@@sethreign8103 Yeah, but to be fair I hadn't bought one in a couple years, and I thought that must be where we are now with micro SD technology. Everything else comes down in price, why not these, too? After all, there are many vendors on Ebay and Amazon selling them, surely they must be legit? Now I see we're not quite there.
That 1TB microSD card cost $300-$400, and now just one year later, that very same microSD card is just $150 regular price.
I remember having a 1GB flash disc at work in 2004 and everyone freaking out. Lol.
Reminds of when a friend of mine back in 2004 had a MicroSD 512MB in his hand and said "Look, just how far we've come" and pointed to the small SD card looking very impressed how so much data as 512MB could fit in that small space. I also remember saying to him that in probably 10 years you will be laughing at your statement and we will see 128GB or even 1TB sizes on the same card size.
Now, imagine all that storage potential being wasted on even higher resolution textures for video games -and barely used assets- and 8K video edits that no one wants to spend on the bandwidth to watch.
whats even more impressive is they kept the same microSD form factor for over 20 years now.
imagine how ridiculous 1tb will be in 10 years and we will have 10tb sd cards. If someone is reading this 10 years from now, please tell me if its true
@@IKER1000sYT Something tells me we won't. Card Size will probably stop at 6TB.
What a trip down memory lane. I remember the old computers in my Elementary school in the mid 1990s, I was in love with my Sony Walkman, THEN when I was around 12 or 13, I got my first CD player headphone set, and thought and acted like I was big shot. Then in 2015 when I got my first smartphone through AT&T, as at that time I worked as a premises technician, so I was able to get the employee discount, and brought a 128 GB micro SD for that phone, and I didn't think I would even see 256 GB micro SD. Only 4 yrs later I was completely blown away when Lexon announced the 1TB micro SD, at the time when it was in prototype stage, i think late 2018.
I remember how expensive 1GB Flash Drives were 10 years ago. My mom bought one for about $150. Now I am working and I just bought a 512GB SD Card for $120. Crazy how far we've come.
I just bought a 1 terabyte (1024GB) micro SD card for $12.95 on eBay. I'm copying 140GB of websites onto it right now.
@@vladimirputindreadlockrast812 :O What kind of websites if you don't mind me asking?
@@2hotflavored666 Customer websites. B.t.w., it didn't work. I did manage to save about 20GB of movies and pictures. And I did test the chip, but I don't remember where it started failing, but that supposedly 1 TB micro-SD is no such thing. It does have some usable memory, but nowhere near 1 terabpyte.
@@vladimirputindreadlockrast812 Not surprising considering it's only $13 for a 1TB microSD which go for hundreds.
@@2hotflavored666 I'm a slow learner...but when I learn something, it's forever.
Thanks Trev, great little trip down memory lane. Those were the days, endless late nights restoring Windows with the Floppies. But enjoyed every minute and learnt so much back then.
Just bought my first 1tb MicroSD card and I can't get over it. I've had multi terabyte drives.. Both SSD and HDD.. I've had Micro SD cards.. Dozens.. But looking at a terabyte inside of a card the size of my pinky nail is just unreal. It blows my mind.
Very enjoyable comparison. The use of the old 1.44mb disks was brilliant to highlight the change in storage capacity but also how much the underlying software has grown. My first computer, an Osborne 386, SX16 only came with the 1.44 drive and not the older and larger floppy disk. I thought I was state of the art with that and 2mb RAM and 40 mb HDD.
I remember when the 3.5” 1.44Mb floppy disc was a gamer changer. Wow! All that data in your back pocket. I couldn’t see technology progressing far beyond this at the time.
Amazing comparison 👌🏼
It baffles me all the time when I think about that 1 FUCKING TB is on a MICRO sd card..
I remember watching my Dad install the original Doom from a CD in 1993 on our Windows PC. A few days ago, I showed my Dad a Steam Deck that I purchased and added a 1 TB Micro SD card, and my entire catalog of games from Steam and emulators fit on the tiny sd card. We reminisced about how far we've come in the PC world. It's pretty mind bending. My Dad still has a large storage of PC game floppy discs, CDs and DVDs, and my 1tb card could easily fit his entire catalog of games several times over. And all he wanted to watch me play was Doom lol. Good times.
Have we now actually reached the physical limit in the area of TB, or is even a 1TB micro SD card, still the beginning?
just the begining, look up "DNA used for storage".
Spoiler alert, you could fit all of facebook in half of a poppyseed worth of DNA.
While extremely experimental and not for consumers yet, it shows what we could potentially expect in the future.
I think about this stuff all the time.
I was born as dvds became popular, now they're fading away
And while 2 years later it's still the largest capacity MicroSD Card, the price just dropped to $99.
I think back to video game cartridges and now it's possible to have thousands and thousands of roms on 1 small sd card - it really is science fiction stuff.
The first SD card I bought back in 2007 was 4GB. It was more than enough for what I needed. Now they're already massproducing a 2TB microSD that's supposed to be released this year(2024).
Now Micron announced the worlds first 1.5 Micro SD.
Nice video
Thank you! I remember thinking that the 1,44 MB of floppy disks would be the absolute maximum capacity you could fit in such a flat space 😅
But I still think no one will ever reach Proxima B.
Now comes the 1.5tb took the throne!
I was born in 2003 and very vividly remember the time when I got into tech and the price for a gigabyte of flash storage in an USB stick or SD card was, at first more than, and later, exactly 1€ per gigabyte and I stuck with that 1€/GB thinking for way too long :D
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Win 95 probably came with a 2 inch thick stack of manuals as well!! GOOD OL DAYS!
Glory days of floppy drive. I was a freshman in college, my new roommate was moving in and he brought his latest 486DX machine running Linux, how did you get it installed I asked, he took out a shoe box full of floppies.
Thanks....
Crazy that 1tb now is like 117£ from Amazon in uk 👀 and it’s more faster
I now own one of those ridiculous cards because of a conversation that went went like this:
Roughly translated from german:
Other person:
You will never be able to fill this card up by normal usage.
Me:
Challenge accepted.
That's deflation and it's beautiful 🔥
Your right these are the reason they tell us every year that we can bay more with our salaries.
@@markknoop6283 Indeed it's just sad that our monetary system is working in the opposite direction trying to inflate and make things more expensive. I think technology and it's deflationary tendencies will win out over central bankers.
@@MathewBT81 mainly investment bankers they are committing suicide.
The economy runs on money if a few grab it all the economy wil stop.
My PSP came with a 32mb card back in 2005. Wow
We should go back to floppy disc.
You go ahead and do that. 🙂
Most devices have a 32 gig limit. Just FYI
$900?! Where are you shopping where it costs $900 for this? At Best Buy, these retail for $500. I bought 2 of them. One was on sale for $190 for Black Friday but dropped to $140 because I used a $50 giftcard that came bundled with a tablet purchase. The other is the same card and was on sale for $220 before I got the $190 deal. Expensive still. But more attainable and justifiable in the $200 range. $500 to $900 is just insane. I have been looking around. I haven't seen any other promos that bring these down to $140 like the last one I bought but hopefully we see some price cuts soon.
OMG - $500 a BEST BUY? That would only cost me $5,000 in airfares and two weeks in quarantine to buy... because THERE ARE OTHER COUNTRIES OUTSIDE OF AMERICA Kendall!!
@@EFTM I know there are other countries...But you said $900. 900 dollars. I thought you were talking about U.S. currency. I didn't realize prices were that drastically different unless you were talking about another type of currency. No need to respond so hastily.
@@kendallsmythe8744 The United States Dollar isn't the only Dollar....
@@EFTM I didn't say it was. But you did not specify what kind of dollars you were referring to. That's why I asked where you are buying from where it's $900...
Dude I'm now shopping for a 2 TB sd card for my Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G!
Too bad those don't exist yet
A 3.5-inch floppy holds 1.4Mb - therefore 714 such disks to a 1gb - therefore 1000gb = 1tb
Therefore as stated, around 714,000 floppy disks = 1tb
With a 1tb amount of data on f3.5 inch floppies which are 3 mm thick would result in a pile 2km high ( 1.2 miles high) !! - all now stored on a disk the size of my small fingernail - and they say dolphins are clever!
In about 10 years. 1TB sd cards will be laughable.
2tb micro sd cards when? Also 1tb micro sd cards are already starting to becoume cheaper
Scares me!
I just bought one on eBay for $12.95. Free shipping. I'm backing up an old PC on it right now. 1 terabyte (1024GB).
Update: It's crap. I have 24.6 GB of pictures and videos on it, but when I tested it, I think it capped out at about 30 GB. Also, for some reason it failed yesterday, and I had to reformat it. Short answer, if you see a 1 TB SD card for sale on Amazon or eBay, it's a scam. Even the reseller closed his account after selling a few dozen to suckers like me.
@@vladimirputindreadlockrast812 usually when you see killer deals like that they aren't legit
@@sethreign8103 Yeah, but to be fair I hadn't bought one in a couple years, and I thought that must be where we are now with micro SD technology. Everything else comes down in price, why not these, too? After all, there are many vendors on Ebay and Amazon selling them, surely they must be legit? Now I see we're not quite there.
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