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They could put the capacity of every 3.5" floppy ever made in a suitcase full of microSD cards.

A wild guess of 3.5" floppy production is 30B. So you need 21,428 2TB micro SD cards. A 15mm x 11mm x 1mm you need 3 1/2 liters.

The bandwidth of a station wagon hurtling down the highway grows every year.

Sneakernet remains undefeated. https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

>> "A solid-state laptop drive weighs about 78 grams and can hold up to a terabyte."

Amazing how we went from 1TB 2.5 inch drives to 8TB m.2 drives and 2TB microSD cards in 11 years. And it would be more like $7k in 4TB drives than $130k. Put $130k of modern drives in the same shoebox and you're probably into the petabyte range. Go to the then-top of the line microSD milk jug and it's getting up there with these 2TB cards.

I had estimated 10^11.

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