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The era of 1TB microSD cards has begun

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There is roughly 2k hours of lecture in a 4 year degree (15 credit hours * 11 weeks * 3 quarters * 4 years) ~> 1980 hrs. At high quality 500MB/hr this is 990GB. This is worst case, so a 1TB memory card has more than enough space to store the lecture portion and possibly extra tutorials for a 4 year degree.

These cards will be less than $50 in 3 years.

I have SERIOUS doubts as to your price projections. Even IF it somehow magically becomes less expensive to actually produce, and completely recoup investment costs for design/production/test in 3 years, it's still subject to economics. Meaning if most people are willing to pay hundreds, it will cost hundreds.

256GB is currently $50. Getting to 1TB @ $50 in 3 years seems inline with historical rates.

You are asking for a 4x drop in GB/ Prices in 3 years. How is that inline with any historical rate. And completely ignored the fact that we got 256GB to this price point was a recent avalanche in NAND prices.

Cheapest 512 GB Cost ~$100, 1TB being top dog, lower yield is RSP ~$400. I would be surprised if these MicroSD were sub $100 in 3 years time.

I am always surprised how small the microSD cards are. It gets even more extreme when you have a 10 year old harddisk next to it. At the same time it can hold most of my data.

I had never used SD cards as much as I have used them since working with RPis, at the same time I have never felt less sure about their reliability. I don't think I feel comfortable using them as a secondary storage in my laptop. Does anyone else share this reliability concern?

As a cheap primary boot device on a low end computer which experiences frequent power loss, has a horrible power supply, and is commonly overclocked too much no, I'm not really comfortable it'll be reliable. As a high cost secondary storage device on a laptop or in a camera yes, it's pretty darn reliable.

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