I barely understand floppies (somethin with magnets and a strip with magnetically sensitive stuff on it, I think) and after that I’m just lost entirely.
I’ve seen the inside of a mechanical hard drive and have seen the platters and the head. I think I know that the data is on the platters, but have no idea how it gets there, how it’s read, or how it’s erased.
And flash memory just is a whole ‘nother universe. How the hell does a [piece of plastic smaller than my thumbnail](https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/memory-cards/sandisk-extreme-uhs-i-microsd#SDSQXA1-1T00-AN6MA) store 8,000,000,000,000 ones and zeros?
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It’s just segmented into pieces with either “some magnetic charge” or “no magnetic charge”.
So it’s like by the ability to name the segments smaller while still being detectable. We are getting very good at that. A single bit wise memory segment on those media is really, really small. Often, those media have layers of storage, as well.
It IS impressive at times.
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