huquad comments on What is something that's crazier than the wildest dreams of any ~1970s nerd, but exists today? I'll start with an easy one:

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[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (7 children)

You can actually store 4TB on most those cards (if you're ok with automated data deletion to make room)

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[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yep. It's a "write once, read never" storage medium.

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

/dev/null is the ultimate storage solution. You can write infinite bytes to it and it'll never get full or wear out!

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[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Very fast, too!

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

WORM/WORN, small difference, I say ship it.

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[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

This guy's got upper management written all over him.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

A friend bought a USB stick that had some amazing data size for the era for a cheap price, turned out it ran some sort of zip tool interface and compressed the data

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[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

No one claimed the compression algorithm was lossless! Everything fits inside a single bit if you squint

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