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Blazing Dual Channel Thumb Drive

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the my-keychain-is-going-to-go-on-strike dept.

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.'"

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  1. What They're Not Teaching In Sex Ed... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... lusting for a new thumb drive ...

    Ok, someone has a problem. :P

  2. but why by JustNiz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why do they make these usb key drives so friggin' big? THe electronics inside is probably like 1cm square.

    Whats with all the redundant plastic?

    1. Re:but why by iethree · · Score: 5, Insightful

      if every thumb drive was 1cm square, you would lose within a week. the drives right now are just the right size to slip in a pocket or on a key ring, if they were any smaller they'd just be impractical.

    2. Re:but why by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny
      They could probably make it as big as a Tic-Tac, but then people would either lose or swallow them.

      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.

    3. Re:but why by Randall311 · · Score: 5, Informative

      If you want a small USB drive (size of 2 pennies next to each other) that holds up to 1 GB, and comes with a credit card holder that can fit 2 memory sticks in your wallet, then check out the intelligent stick by PQI. You can find it on newegg here. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16820214009. I swear by this thing, it is so convienent to fit in your wallet with the credit card sized holder that it comes with. I have had mine for almost a year now and I absolutely love it. Like you said, these thumb drives could be a lot smaller then the're being made to be. PQI seems to be the only company that makes them this small. You can find a review here complete with specs. http://www.extrememhz.com/Intellistick20-p1.shtml (I'm probably gonna get modded down for being offtopic, but I figured since we're talking about thumb drives, I might as well mention it. Cheers.

  3. How much? by ArchieBunker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How much do advertisements like this cost? Sure could use some publicity like this for my business. That summary sounds like it was pasted from some webstore. The most extreme thumbdrive? Please.

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    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
    1. Re:How much? by Evro · · Score: 5, Informative

      Slashdot frequently gets spamvertisements like these, but it seems that the product being spammed is more the website than the stupid drive itself - judging by the fact that the submitter's URL is the same as that of the story, this is clearly just a ploy to drive people to his site to spike his ad revenue.

      1. Write review of stupid product/service.
      2. Submit to Slashdot
      3. Profit
      4. Goto 1

      Slashdot's story queue is probably overflowing with trash like this "article." I can't believe that the one they accepted was about a "blazing" thumb drive. How fast can a fucking thumb drive be, and who fucking cares?

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      rooooar
  4. uuhh.. beavis.. by jrexilius · · Score: 4, Funny

    lusting after "sleek extreme thumb drives" and "drooling over transfer speeds" speaks of serious lack of girlfriendage...

  5. But but by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  6. 17MB/sec != "blazing speed" by kilgortrout · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think it's really stretching things to refer to anything that writes at 17MB/sec as having "blazing speed". Sure it's faster than most thumb drives but that's like bragging about being the world's tallest midget.

  7. "Fastest" I will grant them. by GungaDan · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

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  8. This will be really useful... by cybergibbons · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... 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?)

  9. These things rock by jambarama · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you google around you'll find this thing really is freaking fast . This isn't just an ad, it is the fastest flash drive around. And you can get them for $25 + S/H . I've got one and I must say, they are solid (metal casing) and noticably faster than any other flash drive I've used.

  10. Re:Basic questions by BushCheney08 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    Be a real patriot: Question authority. Think for yourself. Formulate your own conclusions.
  11. AnandTech flash drive roundup by fizzyl · · Score: 5, Informative

    AnandTech has a more comprehensive review of many flash drives, and the OCZ is far from being the fastest.

    Although it could be considered the cheapest fast drive in a way...

    http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=254 9

  12. "Most Extreme" by Cr0w+T.+Trollbot · · Score: 5, Funny
    "If you want the fastest, sleekest, and most extreme drive currently on the market, this is the one to get."
    I'm sorry, but due to the terms of the Federal Hype Reduction Act of 2001, use of the phrase "extreme" in any technical product review is punishable by a mandatory 1 year sentence in a Federal DeHyping Educational Camp. Enjoy hours of knitting and watching PBS from within the soothing pastel confines of Club Fed, my friend...

    Crow T. Trollbot