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Flash Drives Go To Work

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the teeny-but-big dept.

feminazi writes "USB drive capacity is outpacing Moore's Law by doubling every year, evolving from tchotchkes to devices capable of addressing corporate needs ranging from mobile computing platforms to files stores with encryption and biometrics protection. SanDisk and M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers launched a thumb drive with an intelligent U3 chip that can store and launch applications. Lexar's premium JumpDrive Lightning thumb drive has the fastest data-transfer rates at 18MB/sec write and 24MB/sec read. And some are strong on the outside, too. SanDisk touts a drive built to withstand 2,000 lbs. of pressure. Computerworld tested that claim by repeatedly driving a Volkswagen Beetle over the ruggedized thumb drive. While the drive's body came away with a few scratches, there were no dents, and not a single lost file."

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  1. Beetle by 42Penguins · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure you can drive a Beetle over it, but so you know the bandwidth of a Beetle full of thumbdrives on the highway?

    1. Re:Beetle by just_another_sean · · Score: 4, Funny

      Bases on this post I vote for a new moderator category: Perplexing.

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    2. Re:Beetle by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
      > Sure you can drive a Beetle over it, but so you know the bandwidth of a Beetle full of thumbdrives on the highway?

      Not bad. But it's nothing compared to what you get if you start by feeding a bunch of thumbdrives to a bunch of in order to get 'em past the security checkpoint, and fill a 777 with 'em. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a muthafuckin' 777 full of muchta*BLAM BLAM BLAM*

      (That's IT! I have HAD IT with these MUTHAFUCKIN' memes on this MUTHAFUCKIN' website!

    3. Re:Beetle by Scaba · · Score: 5, Funny

      From TFA:

      Computerworld tested that claim by repeatedly driving an employee's car over the ruggedized thumb drive. While the drive's body came away with a few scratches, there were no dents, and we didn't lose a single file.

      The article doesn't go on to mention how they then put the thumb drive in the employees car, set the car on fire and pushed it over a cliff. Miraculously, the thumb drive survived! Boy, was that guy pissed when he found out what they did to his car...

    4. Re:Beetle by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

      Bases on this post. . .

      But you obvioudly workes it out. You appear to have perplexes your other redponsentd do far though. :)

      KFG

    5. Re:Beetle by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hey, I resemble that comment!

      I was nodding silently whilst agreeing with the original poster and you come along and rumble me.

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    6. Re:Beetle by Peganthyrus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Bandwidth of a 737 full of tapes: 100% data loss when the TSA hears a rumor about a plot to blow up planes via bombs concealed in fake thumbdrives, and makes you throw every single one of them away at the security checkpoint.

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    7. Re:Beetle by inKubus · · Score: 2, Funny

      We know what he was trying to say, he just did a really bad job of saying it

      I guess you're saying we mean what he knows.

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    8. Re:Beetle by nedaf7 · · Score: 2, Funny

      [SamuelLJackson]I'm sick of all these motherfucking thumbdrives on this motherfucking plane![/SamuelLJackson]

  2. what is all this about? by skynare · · Score: 1, Funny

    i'm still satisfied with 1000 5.25inch flexible floppy diskettes, totalling 1GB of storage!!!!

  3. Re:2000 lbs of pressure? by Durrok · · Score: 2, Funny

    Farva: Gimme a litre o' cola. Dimpus Burger Guy: What?
    Farva: [Annoyed] A litre o' cola.
    Dimpus Burger Guy: [into mic] Litrecola? Do we sell litrecola?
    Thorny: Will you just order a large, Farva?
    Farva: I don't want a large farva. I want a goddamn litre o' cola!
    Dimpus Burger Guy: [to Farva] I don't know what that is!
    Farva: [slowly starts shouting] Litre is French for...
    [grabs burger kid by shirt]
    Farva: ... give me my fuckin' cola before I break VOUS FUCKIN' LIP!

    Heart supertroopers

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  4. Hmmmm .... by powerlord · · Score: 4, Funny
    Not bad. But it's nothing compared to what you get if you start by feeding a bunch of thumbdrives to a bunch of in order to get 'em past the security checkpoint, and fill a 777 with 'em. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a muthafuckin' 777 full of muchta*BLAM BLAM BLAM*


    Thats a great idea for a movie!

    ThumbDrives On a Plane!

    That's IT! I have HAD IT with these MUTHAFUCKIN' memes on this MUTHAFUCKIN' website!


    That's what I'm talking about! :D
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  5. New File Compression Scheme by pkiesel · · Score: 5, Funny

    No word on how much compression was achieved by driving the Beetle over it? A rather inefficient method in any case.

  6. Re:2000 lbs of pressure? by Moofie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Um, pound force isn't a measure of pressure either. It's a measure of force. It says so right in the unit.

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  7. Re:Standard Flash Drive Durability by stunt_penguin · · Score: 2, Funny

    BTW has anyone *seen* mine? It was small...... about thumb sized.

    I want one with GPS and a transmitter so i can track it's whereabouts :|

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  8. Re:God, I hate that U3 chip. by Millenniumman · · Score: 2, Funny

    they're prone to failure

    That's why you always use floppies in a RAID array.

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