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vidarh on Sept 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Western Digital unveiled its SanDisk 1TB SDXC card...

> (maybe 12 years ago)

I've observed in the past that storage capacity per drive/media seems to grow at around roughly three magnitudes per decade. I'm looking forward to my 1PB SD card equivalent in the late 2020's.

_v7gu on Sept 21, 2016 [–]

Mainly tounge-in-cheek, but still

https://xkcd.com/605/

vidarh on Sept 22, 2016 | [–]

Heh, though in this case we have a few more data points. But of course it'll break down at some point.

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