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Blazing Dual Channel Thumb Drive
Anonomisk Howard writes "The speed results from Big Bruin's review of OCZ's latest flash drive have me lusting for a new thumb drive. From the review: 'The OCZ Rally drive is not a radical new design, it does not look significantly different than any other USB 2.0 drive on the market, but then you plug it in and begin to use it. This thing smokes! The transfer times shown in the charts are what this drive is all about. If you want the fastest, sleekest, and most extreme drive currently on the market, this is the one to get.'"
If only my wife were this interested in speed.
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
... lusting for a new thumb drive ...
:P
Ok, someone has a problem.
"This thing smokes!"
Isn't that the reason people stopped using those xbox cables?
...another USB pen drive to loose the cap off of.
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. ~John Moffat
Getting USB 2.0 compatability _and_ a fresh minty flavour would drive the prices through the roof so it's just not going to happen.
lusting after "sleek extreme thumb drives" and "drooling over transfer speeds" speaks of serious lack of girlfriendage...
Isn't the point of USB keys to make it easy to exchange files with other people? unless you're in a real hurry (like, say, you want to give photos to a friend, he's not home, you break in anyway, proceed to the computer, but your friend's rottweiler saw you and is coming at you) who really cares if it takes one more minute to transfer those files?
The only things important to me are data integrity (a non-issue with 99% of the drives, even the cheapest ones), and a housing solid enough to make the thing survive the odd collection of objects it live with in my bag. Most other people who use these drives don't want anything else from them either.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I have been looking everywhere for the most extreme thumb drive, thanks.
I mean, unless this kind of performance is built into a camera, video or music player then who cares that it takes 20 seconds less time to transfer a few hundred megs of file to a flash drive. I have never found myself wishing my thumb drive was faster for transfering content.
Also, probably a big also, most systems hard drives significantly underperform, so are you even going to get that much improvement by a faster USB drive? No matter what I have done, I have never gotten sustained 48MB/s transfer from any IDE hard drive.
Well, if your a performance queen, then I guess you need the fastest and bestest, but its kind of wasted R&D to make a USB drive smoking fast. How about putting them skills into making desktop hard drives smoking fast instead of smoking hot and underperforming.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
"Sleekest," though? It looks like every other usb flash drive. Maybe if they mounted a spoiler on it, or added some racing stripes. Or speed holes. Speed holes make everything sleeker.
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
What are you doing putting computer peripherals in your mouth? ...on second thought... I don't want to know.
... the next time I bypass the alarm systems, break into someone's office, hack into their PC (which is running a previously unseen user interface which is some bastard child of XP and OS/2 Warp), and begin copying their hard drive to my uber-leet turbo thumb-drive.
Every time I have done this before, they have come back with about 30 seconds left to finish, leaving me with little option but to hide in the filing cabinet.
James Bond
(Has anyone else noticed that the time remaining in films is always accurate, and doesn't jump around like the real life ones?)
... when you consider this guy :)
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
1) reasonably fast
2) faster than this
3) very fast (compared to this)
4) slower than this
5) faster than this, but slower than 3. also, not quite the theoretical limit of 2.
Hope these answers help!
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Hahaha! You don't think we actually clicked on the link and read TFA do you? You must, as they say, be new here...
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that's extreme!
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
OCZ also gold plates the heat spreaders on RAM, and they have some of the fastest sticks. Coincidence, I think not - obviously the aluminum conducts electricity and so give the drive its performance edge.