Cyber Monday sales offer the perfect opportunity to get huge amounts of storage in tiny packages for excellent prices.
Cyber Monday is not always about the big-ticket items. You know what I mean: that 65-inch 4K TV for $499, that King-sized mattress for $870 (opens in new tab), or that Air Fryer for $54.99. Sometimes, it’s about the little stuff. I mean really little stuff, like a 1TB SD card that can fit on the tip of one finger.
Currently, I’m way too excited about a Cyber Monday deal on one of these cards: just $99 for storage that once filled four heavy 256GB spinning hard drives, which, when stacked, were as tall as half a loaf of bread.
The specific Cyber Monday deal (really a Cyber Weekend deal, amirite?) I’m talking about a $99 SanDisk Ultra microSD 1TB card (opens in new tab) (originally $136.99). This is not SansDisk’s fastest solid-stage storage option. In another stellar Cyber Monday deal, I could pay $117 for the « Extreme » version. That’s nice, but I don’t need that level of read-write times (190mb/ps vs 150mb/ps), and I’m really into the idea of 1TB for under $100.
To understand why I’m so excited about this deal, you need to know a little bit about me:
Let’s dig back into the first thing, though. Back in the mid-1980s, our storage options were limited to giant gloppy drives (8- and then 5-inch) that held, if we were lucky, 360K.
