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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They are different storage types. MicroSD and other flash storage are loaded on chips whereas inside a hard disk drive there are physical metal platters/”disks” which hold the information. These have also been designed to work across different desktop storage brands with universal mounting capabilities. They are also generally more resilient of a storage medium than flash memory, particularly when it comes to deleted/formatted data recovery. Portable storage has its merits but they are unpredictable at end of life.
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