Teardown of a dead 2GB SD card shows just how minimal the internal architecture really is—a basic flash controller chip managing a single NAND flash die, all crammed into that tiny plastic shell. No fancy wear-leveling algorithms or multi-chip arrays here, just bare-bones storage logic. This is why early SD cards were so prone to corruption—limited error correction and zero redundancy. Modern high-capacity cards pack way more sophisticated controllers with better ECC and garbage collection, but the core concept hasn't changed much. Still wild how much we trusted these fragile little things to hold our data.