05-09-2014, 03:29 PM
A few months ago, SanDisk unveiled a 128 GB MicroSD card.
http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/pre...-at-128gb/
Now, I did the math:
Dimensions - 15*11*1 mm. That is, 165 cubic millimeters. Taking into account the not quite rectangular shape, you can easily fit about 8 000 such cards inside the volume of a human brain. That means over a million GB. Or one petabyte. Of course, it costs about a million dollars today, but that's a different matter.
That is, consumer technology has finally reached the high end estimates for the memory density of a human brain. Doesn't quite have the processing power attached yet, of course.
http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/pre...-at-128gb/
Now, I did the math:
Dimensions - 15*11*1 mm. That is, 165 cubic millimeters. Taking into account the not quite rectangular shape, you can easily fit about 8 000 such cards inside the volume of a human brain. That means over a million GB. Or one petabyte. Of course, it costs about a million dollars today, but that's a different matter.
That is, consumer technology has finally reached the high end estimates for the memory density of a human brain. Doesn't quite have the processing power attached yet, of course.