World's first 256GB USB memory stick

Aston Martin · July 26th, 2009, 10:56 AM

'Kingston's latest carries 51,000 images, 54 DVDs or 365 CDs'

http://mos.techradar.com//classifications/images/DT300_Angle_256GB_open-728-75.jpg

It costs £565.67 excluding VAT images/smilies/blink.gif

Linky

This is nuts and it has bad news written all over it. But it's soo cool. images/smilies/cool.gif

Final Daihatsu · July 26th, 2009, 11:47 AM

Oh lol, I have a Kingston DataTraveler 1GB. When I got it, everyone were impressed that I had more storage space than a CD on my keys.. one day we'll look at this thread and laugh, just as we laugh today at the 3.5" floppies. images/smilies/wink.gif

WillDAQ · July 26th, 2009, 11:55 AM

lol, The Register review listed the price as £50..

narf · July 26th, 2009, 11:55 AM

While that is a neat thing, it's quite huge. Scale this 16GB drive up instead images/smilies/smile.gif

http://supertalent.com/largeImage/18_189_486.jpg

matt2000 · July 26th, 2009, 3:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aston Martin

it has bad news written all over it.

Why's that? I would love to have the ability to carry around either my entire collection of TG videos or rollout images for all the different types of PC we use at work.

Actually, it would allow the UK government to lose much more of our personal data at once. images/smilies/mellow.gif

LurkerPatrol · July 26th, 2009, 4:36 PM

I seem to remember some time ago that the Arizona State University tech group had figured out some technology to improve the way flash drives stored memory. This effectively increased the amount of memory available by like 10 - 100 fold.

Link-a-dink

Do you think this is the end result of that research/the first commercial example showcasing the new technology?

der_jackal · July 26th, 2009, 5:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LurkerPatrol

I seem to remember some time ago that the Arizona State University tech group had figured out some technology to improve the way flash drives stored memory. This effectively increased the amount of memory available by like 10 - 100 fold.

Link-a-dink

Do you think this is the end result of that research/the first commercial example showcasing the new technology?

Not so much that as the natural shrinking size of all the component parts. Given that the SSD industry has started to take off, they're pushing the fabrication size of larger capacity nodes down considerably so they can start creating bigger capacity SSDs.

A natural by prodcut of that is going to be larger and larger capacity thumb drives. images/smilies/smile.gif

Aston Martin · July 26th, 2009, 6:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matt2000

Why's that? I would love to have the ability to carry around either my entire collection of TG videos or rollout images for all the different types of PC we use at work.

Actually, it would allow the UK government to lose much more of our personal data at once. images/smilies/mellow.gif

Losing 256GB of stuff would suck.

Final Daihatsu · July 26th, 2009, 6:17 PM

^ I don't have 256GB of stuff...

LurkerPatrol · July 26th, 2009, 6:27 PM

^

Seriously?

I have like 10-15 GB worth of music (which is still growing exponentially).
Top Gear takes up about 30-40 GB of space ( I have all the epis from season 4-now ).
I have quite a few game ISO's which probably take up the majority of the space.
A few movies I'm estimating would add up to 50/60 GB, or more.
Photoshop documents and illustrator documents quickly add up to at least 20 gigs or more.

Total is probably around 300-500 gigs.

WillDAQ · July 26th, 2009, 6:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Final Daihatsu

^ I don't have 256GB of stuff...

I wish I only had 256GB of stuff.. 1TB backup drives are pricey!

Spazatao · July 26th, 2009, 7:42 PM

^My thoughts exactly! I'm in the middle of a HUGE backup/organization process here... But I don't trust pendrives, had some bad moments with some of them, loss of data and all... Still, impressive.

matt2000 · July 26th, 2009, 8:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WillDAQ

I wish I only had 256GB of stuff.. 1TB backup drives are pricey!

They are, I have a single 1TB drive just for imaging my primary 1TB drive (Just done it, took an hour), then a 1TB NAS that was bought for backup but now has 486GB of videos on it.

chaos386 · July 26th, 2009, 9:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Final Daihatsu

^ I don't have 256GB of stuff...

I bought a 640 GB HDD just this last September, and it's already full. I've bought a 1.5 TB HDD to help it out, but I doubt it'll last me much longer than the 640 did. Computer data has this nasty tendency to fill whatever size container it's put in. images/smilies/tongue.gif

LurkerPatrol · July 26th, 2009, 9:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WillDAQ

I wish I only had 256GB of stuff.. 1TB backup drives are pricey!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136321 - $97.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822186186 - $89.99

and so on and so forth.

Memory is getting way cheaper these days.

I still remember the first computer we had. It was a performa with 2.3 GB of HD space images/smilies/blink.gif

katwalk · July 26th, 2009, 9:41 PM

^
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822204079
This one is Kat proof. You can drop it on the floor when on and you can still recover 99% of your data.

der_jackal · July 26th, 2009, 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by katwalk

^
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822204079
This one is Kat proof. You can drop it on the floor when on and you can still recover 99% of your data.

So you're saying it's "eternal". images/smilies/wink.gif

katwalk · July 27th, 2009, 5:05 AM

Yes.

Assuming you pirate good software to pull off the files when the computer can't recognize it.

jebjeb · July 27th, 2009, 5:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by katwalk

Yes.

Assuming you pirate good software to pull off the files when the computer can't recognize it.

easy to do images/smilies/smile.gif

I still got my 16MB one from back in the day. Stuff if so cheap noadays last confrence I went to they were passes 64GB drives with the swag.

brydiem · July 27th, 2009, 6:05 AM

Damn, that has more space than my external HDD, which I am going to have to get a new, bigger one of now because my friends are giving me a ton of stuff to chuck on there. YAY!!!!!!!!!!
Oh well, $200 AUD outlay isn't too much.

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LurkerPatrol Come see me eat nipples.. Joined: Apr 24th, 2006 Last Online: 7:49 AM Location: San Diego, California Age: 22 Posts: 2,773 Car: '96 Toyboata Rep Power: 507	I seem to remember some time ago that the Arizona State University tech group had figured out some technology to improve the way flash drives stored memory. This effectively increased the amount of memory available by like 10 - 100 fold. Link-a-dink Do you think this is the end result of that research/the first commercial example showcasing the new technology? __________________ If you're from or live in California, join dis group yo: http://forums.finalgear.com/groups/f...-californians/

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LurkerPatrol Come see me eat nipples.. Joined: Apr 24th, 2006 Last Online: 7:49 AM Location: San Diego, California Age: 22 Posts: 2,773 Car: '96 Toyboata Rep Power: 507	^ Seriously? I have like 10-15 GB worth of music (which is still growing exponentially). Top Gear takes up about 30-40 GB of space ( I have all the epis from season 4-now ). I have quite a few game ISO's which probably take up the majority of the space. A few movies I'm estimating would add up to 50/60 GB, or more. Photoshop documents and illustrator documents quickly add up to at least 20 gigs or more. Total is probably around 300-500 gigs. __________________ If you're from or live in California, join dis group yo: http://forums.finalgear.com/groups/f...-californians/

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katwalk Not A Dude Joined: Apr 1st, 2008 Last Online: January 12th, 2010 Posts: 4,575 Car: 2003 volkswagen beetle Cabriolet Rep Power: 238	Yes. Assuming you pirate good software to pull off the files when the computer can't recognize it.

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brydiem Viva Las Clarksonistas! Joined: Oct 28th, 2008 Last Online: 12:28 PM Location: Newcastle, Australia Age: 18 Posts: 1,419 Car: 1994 Suzuki Cino Swift/Aprilia Sportcity 200 Rep Power: 113	Damn, that has more space than my external HDD, which I am going to have to get a new, bigger one of now because my friends are giving me a ton of stuff to chuck on there. YAY!!!!!!!!!! Oh well, $200 AUD outlay isn't too much.

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