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Maximum commercially available capacity Picture [1] Main features CompactFlash: SanDisk: I 1994 512 GB (CF5 128*2 50 bytes) Thinner (3.3 mm), flash only, now up to 512 GB, although standard goes up to 128 PB since CF 5.0 [2] II Thicker (5.0 mm), older flash, but usually Microdrives, up to 128 PiB [2] CFexpress: CompactFlash Association: 1.0 ...
Compared to flash drives in same form factor, maximum rotating disk drive capacity is much smaller, [citation needed] with 100 TB available in 2018, [1] and 32 TB for 2.5-inch. [2] The disk drive size, such as 3.5-inch, is usually refers to the diameter of the disk platters.
These are typically low-capacity USB drives with modified flash memory controller firmware that emulates larger capacity drives (for example, a 2 GB drive being marketed as a 64 GB drive). When plugged into a computer, they report being the larger capacity they were sold as, but when data is written to them, either the write fails, the drive ...
CompactFlash IDE (ATA) emulation speed is usually specified in "x" ratings, e.g. 8x, 20x, 133x. This is the same system used for CD-ROMs and indicates the maximum transfer rate in the form of a multiplier based on the original audio CD data transfer rate, which is 150 kB/s.
A flash drive, a typical USB mass-storage device An M.2 (2242) solid-state-drive connected into USB 3.0 adapter and connected to computer. The USB mass storage device class (MSC or UMS) standardizes connections to storage devices. At first intended for magnetic and optical drives, it has been extended to support flash drives and SD card readers.
On January 7, 2009, SanDisk and Sony announced the Memory Stick XC format (tentatively named "Memory Stick Format Series for Extended High Capacity" at the time). [33] [34] The Memory Stick XC has a maximum theoretical 2 TB capacity, 64 times larger than that of the Memory Stick PRO Duo which is limited to 32 GB. XC series has the same form ...
32/64/128 GB: Three common sizes of USB flash drives; 1 TB: The size of a $30 hard disk (as of early 2024) 6 TB: The size of a $100 hard disk (as of early 2022) 16 TB: The size of a small/cheap $130 (as of early 2024) enterprise SAS hard disk drive; 24 TB: The size of $440 (as of early 2024) "video" hard disk drive
That said, the price of high-capacity drives has fallen rapidly, and this is indeed an effect of density. The highest capacity drives use more platters, essentially individual hard drives within the case. As the density increases, the number of platters can be reduced, leading to lower costs. Hard drives are often measured in terms of cost per bit.