[Mike Temporale]

http://www.twoinchview.com/?p=51

"See that little black chip near the middle of the hard drive? That’s a 1 GB microSD card, courtesy of Sandisk. It’s sitting on top of a Seagate hard drive, also featuring 1 GB of storage. Isn’t it amazing how things change? Those of us who have seen the evolution of storage over the past decade can still remember a time when 1 GB seemed enormous. The first 1 GB hard drive was introduced to the mass market in 1995 or so, and prior to that I have not-so fond memories of using a DOS program called Stacker to double the space of my then-massive 40 MB to 80 MB…and losing the whole thing when the volume became corrupted. Ah, those were the days. Now I have 1000 MB of storage (well, 968.25 MB to be exact) in a piece of hardware the size of the fingernail on my pinky finger."



Small is powerful! MicroSD is the new up-and-coming memory storage medium of choice for device manufacturers. Thankfully, microSD cards already come in large sizes and are available for a pretty reasonable price. Amazon has the SanDisk 1GB that Jason reviewed for $42. Not like when miniSD hit the market and 256MB was the only size you could get for months. Anyway, check out Jason's review to see just how much you can cram onto this little beauty.

[Mike Temporale]

http://www.twoinchview.com/?p=51

"See that little black chip near the middle of the hard drive? That’s a 1 GB microSD card, courtesy of Sandisk. It’s sitting on top of a Seagate hard drive, also featuring 1 GB of storage. Isn’t it amazing how things change? Those of us who have seen the evolution of storage over the past decade can still remember a time when 1 GB seemed enormous. The first 1 GB hard drive was introduced to the mass market in 1995 or so, and prior to that I have not-so fond memories of using a DOS program called Stacker to double the space of my then-massive 40 MB to 80 MB…and losing the whole thing when the volume became corrupted. Ah, those were the days. Now I have 1000 MB of storage (well, 968.25 MB to be exact) in a piece of hardware the size of the fingernail on my pinky finger."



Small is powerful! MicroSD is the new up-and-coming memory storage medium of choice for device manufacturers. Thankfully, microSD cards already come in large sizes and are available for a pretty reasonable price. Amazon has the SanDisk 1GB that Jason reviewed for $42. Not like when miniSD hit the market and 256MB was the only size you could get for months. Anyway, check out Jason's review to see just how much you can cram onto this little beauty.

[fredstraza]

The growth in storage capacity and reduction in footprint over the last decade has been amazing. For those of us who go back a little further, my first job involved working on an IBM 1130 w/ 512K of ram and a 10MB disk drive that was the size of a washing machine and used 'disk packs' that were 14" in diameter and 10 platters high. The gains in 30+ years have been nothing short of unbelievable!