Greater than seven months after it was unveiled, the world’s first 1.5TB microSD card, Micron’s MTSD1T5ANC8MS-1WT, has landed, properly nearly. A handful of tech wholesalers have listed the cardboard in any other case often called the i400 on their web site and relying on what number of you want and which territory you’re shopping for from, clients could have to attend for not less than 4 months. Mouser, Arrow and Avnet (plus its subsidiaries Farnell (opens in new tab), Newark (opens in new tab), Element14) have already listed it with Newark being the most affordable at Newark, solely $420.53, a value that features free supply.
Purchase not less than 12,000 of them to see the value drop to $381 (with a complete price of greater than $4.5m), not a foul value for 18PB (sure, that’s Petabytes) of strong state storage that ought to weigh, not more than 4Kg (with out the packaging in fact). In case you have been questioning, this microSD card prices about the identical as its weight in 0.125 carat diamond ($1.1m per Kg).
