One of the most visually impressive feats of modern technology: storage on a thing the size of a pinky nail and can be bought for the cost of one too. The culmination of decades of miniaturization and advancement that can reliably hold BILLIONS of bytes with fast and reliable access
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the old clicky boi
Did a bunch of file writes to a early 00s era IDE HD at 40-50MB/s. Am doing very similar writes on a microSD right now and they're moving at... 15MB/s. My disappointment is palpable.
Yes I understand all of the reasons why.