Mass Flash Storage Devices

[TwinkleTits]

Digital storage technology seems to be advance at an insanely rapid pace. 5 years ago computers hardly even came with 50GB harddrives now you can get USB drives with 64GB
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(2723)-SDCZ28-0000-A00-SanDisk_Ultra_Backup_64GBUSB_Flash_Drive.aspx

What I'm wondering though is where are the mass flash drives. You can get a 1TB magnetic harddrive the size of a brick so god only knows how much space you'd get on a flash drive that size. Where are they though I can't find them? 64GB is the highest flash drive I've seen so far.

I just stumbled upon this article
http://www.studiolighting.net/can-your- ... b-of-data/
the author claims that within 18 months (of whenever he wrote the article) that 1TB USB thumb drives will be available. Imagine that a 1TB thumb drive. I could bring my porn collection with me everywhere I go. :fap:

[Dfg]

Well, to be honest 2009 might just give us 500GB+ capacity usb sticks. But even if the technology is there. Manufacturers still wont make them until they are sure THAT their product will sell or work in the market.

[KeepOnTruckin]

Solid state hard drives are ridiculously expensive. Combine 4 of these usb drives and you'd have one.

ANyone see the price for the 64gb flash drive?

[Animal Farm Pig]

Solid state hard drives are ridiculously expensive. Combine 4 of these usb drives and you'd have one.

ANyone see the price for the 64gb flash drive?

They're coming down in price a lot since just one year ago. Check it out, 64 GB drive for $130: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231220

[Jack]

I'm finding supposed 64GB USB drives on Amazon for around $100. I don't know the retail price. Who pays retail on shit like this?

[HektikNinja]

i almost got a 16 gb one, but then thought i didn't need it. It would still be nice to have.

[Haiti's Space Agency]

I wouldn't spend over 30 dollars on a flash drive. They're just too damn easy to lose. I picked up an 8gb for 20 bucks and a 2gb came free with my graphics card.

[toraton]

They're just too damn easy to lose.

wat.

Be more careful with your equipment. It isn't the fault of the equipment that you can misplace something expensive.

[Xenon]

wat.

Be more careful with your equipment. It isn't the fault of the equipment that you can misplace something expensive.

I agree. I have a 40 euro USB flash drive. I hold it with my with a keychain.

[TwinkleTits]

I use MicroSD cards instead. They're cheaper and smaller. I got a 4GB MicroSD for $15. They go up to 16GB. All that bullshit doesn't interest me but the idea of a 1TB flash drive fascinates me. A fuckin 1TB USB stick. I don't think flash drives are half as easy to break as those magnetic pieces of shit either. Last week I tripped over my the wire of my 500GB external drive and it hit the ground and that was the end of it.

[DarkMage35]

The only good flash drives are currently made by intel, and theyre... expensive. The transfer rate needs to be improved before real mass-storage usb sticks become practical, as well as the price.

[MunkeyQ]

I don't think flash drives are half as easy to break as those magnetic pieces of shit either. Last week I tripped over my the wire of my 500GB external drive and it hit the ground and that was the end of it.
If you think about what goes on inside a hard drive, it's amazing they work even with light shock...

Here's a good analogy of the dimensions of stuff inside the hard drive. Imagine everything inside the drive is scaled up 333,333 times. The head would be the size of a 100 storey skyscraper tipped on its side, but would still float only 5mm above the platter...moving at 5000 miles per second.

Seperating the heads from the platter is a cushion of air, called an air bearing. The heads' surface is shaped to capture the fast-moving layer of air next to the platter and cause the head to hover. Springs and close tolerances don't maintain this distance...the air does.

Bear in mind I heard that comparison when 80gb drives were massive, so things have likely moved on.

They're fragile buggers, and being dropped from a table will almost certainly kill it if it's on. Flash is much tougher as it has no moving parts, but if you throw around a drive enough, you'll get problems with cracked solder joints.