Want cutting-edge tech articles? Get 20% off your subscription to IEEE Spectrum, the world's leading engineering magazine: https://spectrum.ieee.org/brancheducation   microSD Cards are the most compact and dense data storage format you can buy. Latest microSD Cards can store 2TB in a volume smaller than a penny! A shoebox full of them could hold every movie and TV show on your favorite streaming platform, with room to spare, and a room of microSD Cards can store the entirety of the internet. In this video, we open one up and journey down to the nanoscopic scale to see how 16 dies, each as thin as a strand of hair, filled with over 200 layers of NAND flash cells, store all your photos and files. Table of Contents: 00:00 – microSD Cards, storing the entirety of the internet in a room. 00:43 – What’s inside microSD Cards? 02:19 – How are microSD Cards manufactured? 04:01 – Packaging the microSD Card 04:57 – IEEE Spectrum   We're working on more ambitious subjects like how AI works and Quantum Computers. Any contribution would greatly help make these videos. https://www.patreon.com/brancheducation Branch Education Website: https://www.branch.education Branch Education Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BranchEducation/   Key Branches from this video are: How do SSDs Work? https://youtu.be/5Mh3o886qpg How do Hard Drives Work?  https://youtu.be/wtdnatmVdIg How does DRAM Work? https://youtu.be/7J7X7aZvMXQ Animation: Adrei Dulay Research, Script and Editing: Teddy Tablante Twitter: @teddytablante Modeling: Prakash Kakadiya Voice Over: Phil Lee Sound Design by Drilu: www.drilu.studio Sound Design and Mix: Luis Huesca   Attribution We used a CT Scan by Lumafield for reference in modeling the microSD Card "Nike Shoe Box" by sample1337 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution "living room" by Arch.mahmoudbadr is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution "Banana 3D scan" by grafi is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution "Record Table" by turtlesomber is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution "Turntable Debut PRO. Pro-Ject" by Liza Pasichnyk is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution #microSD #IEEE #Storage