I bought a 512GB ADATA micro-SD card the other week.
I then copied ALL of my Star Trek collection to it.

ALL of it.

To a medium smaller then my thumb-nail.





This TINY card, now has ALL of my Star Trek collection on it, albeit in ripped MP4 files.

The Original Series(TOS)
The Next Generation(TNG)
Voyager(VOY)
Enterprise(ENT)
Deep Space Nine(DS9)
Discovery(STD)
Picard(STP)

INCLUDING all of the extras from the source DVD's.
This card is really only for playback, so read-only, for all intents and purposes.
Should last a long time like that, although, this is only ONE copy of many backups if you know what I mean - not counting the original source DVD's themselves.

Isn't technology amazing? (rhetorical)

.....and 512GB is not even the biggest micro-SD card you can get now....

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Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!

Things are certainly getting smaller.
I was looking at my reel-to-reel tape recorder in the shed yesterday wondering if the tapes I have are still usable. They will probably disintegrate if I try without conditioning them first.

On another note, this loop-recorder is fantastic.


It slips under the skin and monitors the heart continually. It records anything it finds "interesting". Your mobile phone talks to it regularly and downloads any recordings to send to the cloud storage and then on to the cardiologist. 5 year guaranteed battery life.

I'm getting mine removed in a few weeks and I will ask to keep it as a souvenir. It will be classed as medical waste so not much chance of being able to keep it.

It is getting upgraded to a full pacemaker which is just as amazing for what it can do in a small package.

Jim

I've still got the very first SD card (full size) I purchased many years ago. It was for a digital camera.
It was a whopping 32MB & cost about $36.

@TassyJim. I had a pacemaker fitted about 6 weeks ago to keep my heart rate at or above 60bpm. They gave me a bluetooth, 4G bedside monitor thingy which took up a lot of space. Ditched it after a few weeks. There is an phone app available didn't try that. My smart watch does a good job of monitoring.    

Brian

I bet you can get "30TB" ones on AliExpress now.  ;)

Both my. Stream decks have 2TB Cards. That I got on Amazon Prime Day for ridiculous prices. I have a 1.5 terabyte in my. Retroid Pocket 5, once again at a  steal on Amazon Prime Day. The only thing that bothers me about SD cards is that they invariably fail miserably And you lose all your data. I've had so many SD cards Randomly fail. It really hurts when you think of the current prices of the things, and worry about having to replace them, which I currently Couldn't!

I have a "pride of place" almost certainly fake Sony microSD card. It's marked 256MB and looks, to my eyes anyway, completely genuine. It came in the usual difficult to open packaging, once again appearing to be genuine. However, it only has 16k of space, all at the beginning, in the directory area. The rest of it is unpopulated. So, you write to it and the directory lists all your file information correctly but in actual fact your data went into a bit bucket.

  Mixtel90 said  

I have a "pride of place" almost certainly fake Sony microSD card. ...

Perhaps one should use "H2bench" for SD-cards from untrusted sources?
Regards
Michael

Yes, or f3 - Fight Flash Fraud

John

There are no trusted sources, only those who will accept them back without quibble if they prove to be dodgy. i.e. there are no cheap SD cards - unless you are willing to take the risk. :)  Mine was bought from what appeared to be a genuine Sony outlet and was supplied in apparently genuine packaging. I tested it with GRC ValiDrive immediately after opening as I was suspicious because of the price. Unfortunately the postage to send it back would have been about what I paid for it so I didn't bother.
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Edited 2026-03-29 02:27 by Mixtel90

I've bought from ebay & returned free for refund when faulty/fake.

Some don't want them back.

John
Edited 2026-03-29 03:26 by JohnS

get a sd card validate app and test before use. if too cheap to be true then is

Just reminded me  

  Mixtel90 said  

There are no trusted sources, only those who will accept them back without quibble if they prove to be dodgy.

I've never had a bad card when ordering directly from

SanDisk

Bought a 2TB USB SSD knowing it was fake as AE guarantee a refund if you can prove it, just to see what was in it. There were seemingly genuine reviews saying it worked well.
It contained a 16GB thumb drive with doctored device identification.
If you write more than 16GB it wraps around and overwrites previous data but the FAT still says it is all there.

Used gparted to make a 15GB partition on it and now have a usable thumb drive for free, along with the USB-C adapters and cable that came with it.

And following the above off topic...

Scrawled in the wet paint in the RMIT cafeteria toilet (about half a century ago) was:-

"Painter Painter paint in vein,
the sh*thouse poet has struck again."


Edit.
I see the Site Censor has vandalised the poetry.
Are the Arts not sacred? ;)
Edited 2026-03-29 07:27 by phil99

  Quote  

Scrawled in the wet paint in the RMIT cafeteria toilet (about half a century ago) was:-

I was also there around that time .

  phil99 said  

Edit.
I see the Site Censor has vandalised the poetry.
Are the Arts not sacred? ;)

Just so everyone knows, that was not me.  

The forum software is aware of certain swear words, and if it detects them, it auto-censors them.

It would appear my joke fell flat! The "Poetry" was itself vandalism.

Among the graffiti the painter had painted over was:-

"Do Not Feed the Art Students"

Similar to what you see at the zoo...

Toilet graffiti is indeed a true art form. The good stuff is worthy of preservation! Unfortunately there are those with less than one brain cell that think just a rude word or two is graffiti worth inscribing. They give the true s**thouse poets a bad name. :(

To you who use these marble halls
Please use the paper not the walls
For it is a dirty trick
To wipe your a**e upon a brick

(all my own censoring!)


I have a feeling that this post might be construed as being off-topic. However, I plead mitigating circumstances. We changed to BST at 2AM this morning so I've had an hour's less sleep and I'm only just waking up. :)

  Grogster said  

I then copied ALL of my Star Trek collection to it.

The Original Series(TOS)
The Next Generation(TNG)
Voyager(VOY)
Enterprise(ENT)
Deep Space Nine(DS9)
Discovery(STD)
Picard(STP)

If you copy the movies, Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy  as well, things are going to get a bit tight

2tb Samsung extreme pro inserted in my old Samsung mobile and working well even though the specs say it shouldn't. Movies, all photos and videos taken over the years from all my mobiles and heaps more. Lots of space still, yet higher reliability as a result... Next mobile will have to be a Sony as most stupidly don't have memory card slots now (or headphone sockets) 😡