Why are there 1TB micro SD cards that are the size fingernail and most 1TB hard drives are bigger than my hand?

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Why are there 1TB micro SD cards that are the size fingernail and most 1TB hard drives are bigger than my hand?

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It’s just a form factor. Computer cases have 2.5 and 3.5 inch form factors for hard drives, and they are made to fit that size. If you look at a NVMe drive, it looks like a tiny stick of memory, yet that can be a couple of terabytes as well. Once again, even that is a set form factor size.

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