+117 If SD cards are thin and flat and in a similar shape of floppy disks why don't we just make floppy SDs with tons of storage, amirite?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

For the people born in this millennium: a floppy is a fysical version of a "save-button".

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I was actually

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Jam that in your raspberry pi.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Storage density and access latency is inferior for spinning media.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Explain it to me but dumb it down a couple notches

by Anonymous 3 years ago

A floppy disk was a round magnetic disk inside the square plastic protector so you can handle without damaging the data, maybe a better question is: why aren't 3.5" SD cards.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

What would that be exactly? Would it spin for some reason? Or would it just be an extra large SD card?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Just a really big sd card

by Anonymous 3 years ago

So the shape of a floppy disc isn't truly relevant, right?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

More of a comparison of its size

by Anonymous 3 years ago

When you say tons of storage, what do you mean? Terabytes? That is out there now.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Yeah

by Anonymous 3 years ago