20TB storage with a micro SD? does the phone have 19.48TB space or is there an SD card that size?

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/motorola-m...

Yes, my screenfilter is on, eat it.

@Floydian legit googled that phone, it was the first thing pop up lol

Support for future?

@gitlog got me doubting for a second, even though I am pretty sure there's simply no way of supporting that much yet - also confirmed by the official page

https://motorola.com/us/products/...

Strange, this rant was on the first page of Google for the search of “20TB sd card”.

It's a filesystem limit I think. None of the SD cards right now support it yet (largest MicroSD is 256GB iirc), but the filesystem used for it should. Perhaps it's using ext4 or something with a shared storage option. FAT32 which is often used for SD cards surely doesn't, and that option in non-merged storage media (internal+SD) is something that I don't think will change anytime soon... So it's essentially marketing BS.

*** MicroSD card sold separately. Content with DRM restrictions may not be able to be moved to the card. 256GB is the maximum capacity currently available.

See? :P

@bkwilliams devrant is sometimes way too suspiciously fast indexed, absolutely insane lol

@Condor I think I saw legitimate 512gb SD cards before, especially because I remember people hyping some random 512GB phone because you could expand it up to 1TB+, too lazy to Google though, I rather trust my vague memory 😊

@JoshBent you found it much later

This 2TB SD card is there since long time

@JoshBent SD card firmware hacking is a thing :3 just like it is with those cheapo TB USB sticks that float around on Wish etc. My concierge bought one of them earlier, which I tested.. 256GB SD for €8 iirc, shit just crapped itself after 4GB worth of files was placed and continuously checksummed XD

Well, dishonest people are everywhere. It takes some knowledge about technological limits to be able to notice them.. but sadly, not many people have that skill.

Anyways, they got 1 zero wrong

@Condor https://trustedreviews.com/news/...

@Condor I made sure to include "legitimate" because I am very aware of those slimy hacks Chinese sellers are capable of 😉

@gitlog pretty sure 2TB is future proofing as we only have 512GB microSD now, you're welcome to prove me wrong though, also the whole point was that they advertise 20TB in that article, where as the phone is just built for 2TB

@JoshBent and in the table, it's 20 GB
LoL

@gitlog hahaha didn't even notice that gem, amazing

@JoshBent well, it is too bad for them cause people tend to see tables before reading something (atleast in India)

@Floydian sadly not, so I guess they are going global lol

@Floydian 2TB

@Floydian it's just too be future ready

@gitlog That's overkill. Nobody would buy that. Heck, I bought myself 4TB of drives that can in RAID-0 perform at 300MB/s in my server for half that price. An SD card with its nominal IO performance is only worth €20 at best. Extreme capacity SD cards... Why the fuck does the world even need those? 512GB is nice, but it seems like this isn't a viable goal to pursue. SSD, alright. For low-capacity, high power applications that's a viable solution that will promise its worth further in the future. Mechanical hard drives are slow, wear out but are reasonably fast and are extremely cheap for their capacity.. so where does that place micro SD cards outside of a place to store music on a phone? Nowhere.

@Condor you can't possibly cover all things people could come up with and having flac raw files (I am sure somebody will correct me if that's wrong 😉) can easily eat up all that space

@S-Homles-MD wait what? 😂 I didn’t get ripped off, I always search the stuff review for days before deciding to get it

@S-Homles-MD owh 😂😂😂

@JoshBent FLAC may be possible still, but that's about the limit of SD read performance. I already ran into bottlenecks during 1080p video streaming from my file server (which has its disks able to perform at 2.5Gbps both directions) just because I was using 54Mbps WiFi to stream it. In order to get a decent performance without buffering, it requires the 150Mbps link from a 5GHz connection. I'm pretty sure that a SD card (of which 10MB/s translates to 80Mbps) will run into similar bottlenecks. Large storage is nice, but it doesn't mean anything if you can't read it in time. That's the reason why people don't use tapes as their live storage media.

@Condor time changes.
If Micro SD cards improve highly overtime, it'll save space
(Considering speed also increases over time)

@Floydian
1. We are not on cloud completely as of now
2. You won't like to be on cloud completely considering the internet speed and availability for *everyone* as of now. I'm getting less than 1 Mbps as my college is far from main road(basically the antenna)

@gitlog ofc I'm not saying it'll be great for sure but who knows!!

When you don't know the future, you have multiple dimensions to improve yourself in

Also, a time *may* come later when this small size would be easily able to hold multiple terabytes of data

@Floydian true

Anyways, 2TB of data won't be given on a server at a fixed price instead of yearly or sth.

If you find one tell me too

Y'all should read up on SDXC: The Secure Digital specifications reads the maximum storage is 2TB. Thus far, the largest out there is 512GB.