If you started using computers when CD-ROM drives seemed to have an amazing amount of space at around 650MB each, the fact that you can store many Gigabytes of data on a micro SD card the size of a rather small thumbnail seems amazing. At least it does to me. Though I grew up in an era when you could misplace a disk, it wasn’t going go be lost in the carpet, or even vacuumed up without some loud mechanical protest.
5 Megabytes in the 1950s; via reddit
On the other hand, even by that time things had progressed significantly, as this photo of a 5MB hard drive being loaded onto a plane shows.
So how do you actually organize these tiny devices? Cloud data storage is a great alternative for many of purposes, but if you need to keep data on portable media, you’ll need somewhere to physically store them. A baggie or jewelry box could work, but here’s something actually made for that purpose.
The picture at the top of this post is like one-organizer-to-rule-them-all and will put an end to digging through drawers looking for that microSD or low-provile thumb drive. It can hold 8 standard SD cards, 15 microSD cards, and 10 USB flash drives. As they are 3D-printed, you can customize the number of slots for each one as needed.
It looks like a clever idea. On the other hand, I wouldn’t attempt to clean it with a vacuum cleaner!
