A Japanese Twitter user, Mizutori (@minadorin), had a broken SD storage card and, out of curiosity, decided to disassemble it to see its internal structure, only to be quite shocked by what he found.
Do you understand? No worries, let’s start from the beginning. This card (now disassembled) is from the nearly 30-year-old Japanese local brand Elecom, with a capacity of 4GB and Class 4 rating.
Upon opening the shell, it was surprisingly discovered that inside was a smaller microSD card, which was connected to the SD card interface.
It is also a 4GB Class 4, so there is no noticeable difference during use; even if it is slower, you wouldn’t expect it to be like this.
The card has markings from Taiwan but lacks any brand identification, suggesting it is a counterfeit Elecom product.
However, a few netizens commented that this is already quite decent compared to those from mainland China.
Inside was a power bank filled with sand.
It is no longer surprising to see a 500GB external hard drive containing a 128MB USB drive, or a power bank with X thousand milliamp-hours filled with sand (as shown in the picture).