Does a ‘full’ memory card weigh more?

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So if you have an empty memory card compared to one which is full with say 64GB of data (or any other large amount). If you weighed them both on an incredibly sensitive scales, would there be a difference in the weight?

Essentially I’m asking does data/computer memory have any mass?

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Data is stored as a series of ones and zeros. Certainly a hard-drive, being sealed, does not change its weight at all as the data bits are encoded magnetically (the magnetic dipole points one way is a one, the other way is a zero).

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