Someone needs to make & sell removable SSDs openly standardized as 3-inch (7-cm) square wafers, together with removable SSD receivers (internal & built-in on laptops and tablets!), that look & work just like floppy disks & drives from days gone by.
The convenience of USB thumbdrives, without the drawbacks of laptop dongles, tiny & easily lost media, & "Which one of these stupid things did I put the files on!?"-itis.
Pictured: 3-inch square wafers of the past as real-world disks & TV props.
@arielmt So like a PCMCIA storage card?
@jackemled That's a bit more niche of an example, but yes. :D
@arielmt I think one thing Sony won at with MemoryStick was the form factor. Gumstick size for real (inck thickness), no moving parts, no dents, and you can write on them easily.
Annoyingly even usb A is narrower, so to make a USB stick you have to have a narrow bit at one end and that just ruins part of the formfactor.
— Vi
@arielmt Minidisc 🥺💜
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File folder shaped thumb drives!