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...ash_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.

[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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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/Produc...82E16820231220

[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]

Originally Posted by alexander224

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]

Originally Posted by toraton

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]

Originally Posted by TwinkleTits

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.