On: Raspberry Pi Zero vs. Elliott 405

[Jerry2]

In tech space, even 9 years can produce 1000x results. I love this microSD storage example, 2005 vs 2014: http://i.imgur.com/1jyVev4.jpg

[stordoff → Jerry2]

I had a similar realisation a few days ago - I was putting a new microSD card in my phone, and realised that it represented 100 times the storage of my first PC (200GB vs 2GB). I still get a feeling of "this shouldn't be able to store this much" every time I use a microSD card.

[vive-la-liberte → stordoff]

>this shouldn't be able to store this much

Same here. I was thinking about how many CD-ROMs it would take to store a certain amount of information, as a measure of just how much data something amounted to. Then I thought that with microSD cards, the same amount of data would sound much less impressive.

[TheSpiceIsLife → stordoff]

I love looking at MicroSD cards and imagining how, in your example there are 1,600,000,000,000 individual storage units inside it.

That's 200 x a billion x eight.

[stavros → Jerry2]

Nine years to change one letter? Jeez, and we pretend that technology moves fast.

[broodbucket → stavros]

3 letters, the X makes it sound cool.

[Evolved → Jerry2]

What's the average/expected lifespan of a microSD card vs. a flash drive vs. a CD-R/DVD-R. I've seen various graphs but does anyone have even anecdotal personal experience?

[soared → Evolved]

Well anecdotally, I've never had a single storage piece die on me. The only exceptions are two microSDs that got fried in my rpi. Apparently you shouldn't constantly read/write to them, and instead just put boot files on it and move everything else to usb.

[Narishma → soared]

You can read them as much as you like. It's the constant writing that can be an issue.