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16GB Flash USB Dongle
Derek Dongle writes "This is great — Toshiba plans to bring out a limited edition 16GB USB dongle. What would you do with 16GB in your pocket? Who knows? As the writer of this story says, "It may be one of the occasional cases of: who cares? It's a 16GB USB drive that fits in your pocket and weighs 12 grams!" I'm not quite sure I want to call it a dongle. At 8x2 cm it's not the smallest thing to attach to a keychain. But at 16 GB you could keep a good bit of your life there, provided you aren't working in audio or video. I keep a 1GB stick on my keychain, which is enough for almost anything.
640K should be enough for anyone!
Let's face it, most "keychain" drives are flimsy affairs made of plastic, with tops that pop off easily--hardly the kind of thing you want to carry around every day in your pocket (especially if you're active). I wouldn't every want to drop these things, much less think of them going through the wash or getting banged around by my keys.
How about we see some more durable drives in larger sizes? Hell, I'd be willing to pay a premium for something I could rely on to take a beating.
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Just think how frustrated you get when you lose your keys at the moment...now imagine 16gb going missing with them!
Is that a Flash Drive in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me.
...like maybe $150 at the MOST - i'll stick with buying the small external USB harddrives. Ok so the hard drives are bigger, but they still fit in most of my pockets *and* I get 80 gig.... for easily less than $100.
This would be perfect for all those times when I've had to repair a computer and the OS has been completely fubared but I still need to try to repair or save settings and files.
...that it doesn't decide to randomly erase like my 128MB one did. That would be 128 times the pain!
Why this is simply ridiculous! 640k should be good enough for any pocket!
Ninnle Linux will be able to do wonders with this!
Pretty bad editing.
Actually it's pretty bad commenting. 60GB IPods contain hard disks, not flash. And an ipod isn't nearly as small as USB storage you can hang on your keychain.
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Probably sit on it and break it. 8 cm long? Not short enough to prevent bending it should I sit on something that could act as a lever... like the edge of a subway seat.
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This comment sounds like someone who always talks about "how durable" these drives are withotu actually owning one.
I have has my 512 MB thumb drive go through the wash no less than 3 times. I have had it dropped, stepped on countless times. Never once have I lost data and it still wokrs fine to this day.
Flash drives **are durable**, much more so than any DVDR or CDR are. Lexar even makes a hardened case version that can be run over with a car.
Dongle can also refer to something that plugs into a computer, especially something with wires that "hang" (dangle, or perhaps a more suggestive origin) from a laptop computer. For example:
Other USB devices, primarily flash memory "drives", used only for data storage (as opposed to USB Hardware Token Devices).
So it must be true...
In my case: Ubuntu or Debian partial repository.
A 250GB USB-External-Harddrive is not as that portable.
Are these things durable? That is, do stray static charges or magnetic fields clobber them at all?
Moving on, a 60GB drive is hardly remarkable, with iPods around everywhere that can carry 60GB. They must mean a 60GB USB flash drive. Pretty bad editing.
What are you talking about. They are releasing a 16GB drive, not a 60gb drive. They mentioned a 64GB drive in the article, but no one is talking about a 60GB drive except you.
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From Wikipedia....
Dongle can also refer to something that plugs into a computer, especially something with wires that "hang" (dangle, or perhaps a more suggestive origin) from a laptop computer. For example:
A jack wired to a small edge connector on a Type I or II PCMCIA card, typically an RJ45 or RJ11 jack for an Ethernet or telephone cable. This type of dongle has no copy prevention purpose. PCMCIA card dongles are notoriously fragile and unreliable. They are falling out of favour as more laptops include built-in Ethernet and modem sockets.
USB adapters, such as for memory cards.
Other USB devices, primarily flash memory "drives", used only for data storage (as opposed to USB Hardware Token Devices).
The word has also been applied to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi antennas.
No not bad editing. Bad troll. This thing is much smaller than iPod. If I'd use your stupid logic, I could say that they must mean 200GB because I can grab a LTO2 tape and carry with me.
"But at 16gb you could keep a good bit of your life there, provided you aren't working in audio or video. I keep a 1GB stick on my keychain which is enough for almost anything."
Two years ago it would have been:
But at 1GB you could keep a good bit of your life there, provided you aren't working in audio or video. I keep a 64MB stick on my keychain which is enough for almost anything.
Four years ago it would have been:
But at 64MB you could keep a good bit of your life there, provided you aren't working in audio or video. The convenience would make this a useful investment and allow us to throw the good old floppy away for good.
In 2010 it'll be:
But at 512GB you could keep a good bit of your life there. I keep a 32GB stick on my keychain which is enough for almost anything.
As noted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle, while this *was* true, the meaning has evolved - I fought against calling PCMCIA card cables 'dongles' using your assertion above, but couldn't fight progress on this one.
...especially the ssh keys used to access your anime tentacle rape porn server, ooops I meant your Jubei games box. Silly me.
> Vista will be able to boot off flash drives and, just possibly, U3 flash drives will turn PCs into thin clients.
I predict a return of the boot virus and you won't even know you're carrying it to every box, just because the last one didn't boot right. And btw, Vista can also walk your dog, make breakfast and do your homework - just like it used to be able to do WinFS and so many other wonderful things which later got pulled.
Once as an experiment, I turned on BOOTP on my linux server in office and loaded up a 14 Mb initrd into the tftpd, during the weekend. To my surprise, on monday half the office machines were booting into a linux command line and all the administrators were tearing their hair out.
Secondly, most offices I know are starting to disable their USB connectors and some of the better ones are disabling the USB data pins (ipods still charge, but no copying). 16 Gb is a lot of data that can be pulled out of a place, especially with something which is magnet free (most of these places have scanners for magnetic media).
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I keep wondering who these silly people are who piss on the parade, every time. I expect a healthy chunk of Slashdotters to say "so what!" The submitter is, at best, completely unexcited. I mean, even the author has the "I don't know what it's good for but yeeehaw."
16GB on a USB dongle/keychain is great! Finally, I can slap a few different movie choices, compressed, and a mess load of mp3s when I head over to visit friends for an evening or family for an afternoon, all without needing a notebook or similar device to hold it. It'd be great to show up for a night of fun and be able to have 10 different comedies movies on your keychain, so your buddies can have a little selection. How about showing up to your sisters house with a dozen Disney/Pixar flicks for the kids to watch... all without scratching a DVD? And, yes, it further pushes into the peripheral (no pun) territory of the iPod's benefits as multipurpose portable storage.
I hope more people release similar sized usb dongles. And large ones. It all helps drive down the price.
I keep a 1GB stick on my keychain which is enough for almost anything.
Famous last words. Remember the days - not too long ago - when a floppy drive was "enough".
The truth is that with video capture devices becoming cheap, and consumer generated content and sharing fast becoming a social trend, I'm sure you'll hear about a 16GB personal drive being not "enough" pretty soon!
Why would it be limited? Having 16GB is definitely useful and they shouldn't make only a certain number of devices.
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I'd love it. I'd keep several of my favorite ISO's on it, some CD some DVD. Probably a program to read them with, just in case Daemon tools isn't installed where ever I am.
Just be careful not to put too much personal information on there. Or, for that matter, anything that you can't afford to lose and have recovered by someone else.
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So, it's a *limited edition*? :)
Considering "640K shoudl be enough for everyone", we'll be carrying 32GB flashier soon, and the 16GB limited edition won't be anything special
a Dongle is an adapter of some sort, it does not imply anything to do with being a key 'fob'
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It would be nice to get someone to create a flash drive built for the purpose of an OS. It would have to be more urable than a normal flash drive because of the amount of data involved. Current drives simply don't last long enough under that kind of pressure.
When you're talking about 16GBs, you could almost do away with your normal hard drive and use web based drives for storage. Portable computers would be lighter. Perhaps you could even increase the speed of the drive with caching (perhaps it's already done...).
I'd like a flash drive I could put my OS on and not worry about it's data integrity.
From the Toshiba press release:
"On insertion into a PC, all the U3(TM) models automatically launch the U3(TM) Launchpad software integrated into the memory, which presents the user with a list of programs to choose from and files to work with."
So I'm guessing this is pretty much useless with my Linux boxes...
Sounds like a good thing.
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This would be a great replacement for the 12 inch dongle that's in my pocket currently... er, I mean 12 GB dongle.
Is that an erection in your pocket, or are you just happy that you have a 16 GB USB Flash Dongle?
A guy walks into a bar... well, I forgot the joke, but the punchline is that he's an alcoholic.
What would you do with 16GB in your pocket?
Besides carrying my files in it, I plug in my headphones and listen to music while I'm working out.
When will they learn that this is not what we want. We want things that work, and work for a long time. I am sick of buying things that break after a few years. My grandmother has a vacumn cleaner that has worked for over 20 years. I honestly have yet to find a vacumn cleaner these days that work beyond a few years. I don't care about bigger and better, I care about smarter and tougher. Unless documents become over 5 megabytes a file, I will not spend my money on this. I will spend that same money and a few extra bucks to get a LaCie external hard drive.
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As far as I know, they are already available from Buslink....maybe not at a reasonable price, but they are there. Apparently the 32GB and 64GB versions are to be released soon.
When Kanguru has introduced a 64GB flash drive (measures 1.5 x 2.5 x 9.2 cm). Link to it here.
For me at least, the huge $2,799 USD price tag will keep it out of my pocket for at least a little while. But one thing's for sure: prices always come down. Wonder what this will go for this time next year.
My 1G SanDisk Cruzer has been dropped in the alley and driven over by cars and whatever repeatedly. While it doesn't look very good anymore with nicks, scrapes, and tire marks all over, it is intact and works just fine.
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....for flash storage in notebooks. I for one would LOVE a notebook with "only" 16 GB of storage...provided that 16 GB was flash. No spinning motors and platters means a more useful, portable device.
I can't help myself... with a strong rubber boot that fits snuggly around it, especially if you're active, pay a premium for something I could rely on to take a beating
That's what she said!!!
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Kanguru has had a 16GB drive out for over 3 months. Why is this interesting new news? http://www.kanguru.com/flashdrive_max.html
Most folks that I know use usb flash drives for backup and sneaker-net transfer. I wonder what the tranfer rate will be on this. Filling a 1G drive right now takes a fair while. If the transfer rates don't go up, having all that extra space doesn't really help you in a practical -I need to get this copy done and catch the bus in 10 minutes- kind of way.
I am sure it will be way out of my price range though. I would however settle for a nice 2 or 4 gb flash drive. My 1gb flash drive is filling up all the time.
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U3 devices show as 2 partitions. The U3 system partition will appear as a CD (CDFS on Windows), and the rest of the drive appears as a normal (vfat) partition. You can also get utilities to remove the U3 software and partition, which is what I did.
I carry a Coghlan magnesium fire starter, a Swiss Army knife, and a folding comb in my pocket at all times, without any problems. Each of these items is larger than the drive in question. The key, is to put it in your front pocket. You will never sit on it that way.
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http://www.kanguru.com/flashdrive_max.html
Of course it's $2800 US from TigerDirect.
But... but... I worded the joke so much better! Methinks I should have tried harder to get a first post!
At 16GB, it's starting to be large enough to be a useful replacement for a 2.5" hard drive. Lower power, heat and noise and zero seek. If they can get 16GB under $100US, I'll buy one.
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It's not the size of your dongle it's how us use it.
As x approaches total apathy I couldn't care less.
I have USB drives that are limited to 130 entries in a folder regardless of size. I hope these big drives overcome that.
It is not the size of your dongle but how you use it! I know plenty of guys with big dongles that can barely fill them and only take them out once in while.
I backed up my files to my flash drive, and then left it in the USB port and proceeded to upgrade Solaris. It kept complaining that my primary boot drive was only 512M and only had 15M free. I thought something was fuxx0r3d with my partition table, until I saw what the mount point was... At least now I know my box can boot from USB, that may come in handy, given a sufficiently sad set of circumstances.
Just junk food for thought...
USB 2.0 is soooooooooo slow... I had to move about 35GB of data via USB 2.0 yesterday and it took about 40 minutes... With capacities going ever higher, why aren't we seeing more FireWire thumbdrives?
FTFA: "On insertion into a PC, all the U3TM models automatically launch the U3TM Launchpad software integrated into the memory, which presents the user with a list of programs to choose from and files to work with. U-Safe, password-based security protection softwere, is also built into Launchpad and can be activated at the user's discretion. Other application programs can be downloaded from the U3(TM) site."
so who wants to bet this will only work on windows? But hey, so long as this "integrated" software can be deleted, who cares right?
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With 5 Mpixels cameras capable of producing movies, I am sure people would eventaully love a 16 GB memory sticks ( I know this is not the dongle refered to in this article.) In our case, we could go on imaging Earth for the full 20 hours our balloon ( http://hasp-geocam.blogspot.com/ )is going to be up. For background, the reasons for undertaking this project can be found here at http://hasp-geocam.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_hasp-ge ocam_archive.html
Or are you just happy to see me?
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Use my 512M daily for over a year and its still solid, no mechanical failures or data problems. Solid.
16Gb of storage would allow you to hold the text of about 40,000 average length paperback books.
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i could put a full hot backup of my custom PBX (trixbox) plus a variety of OS's on this....... very cool.
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So when will companies really start pushing this technology from thumb drives into the world of hard drives? I read an article a while back that someone was doing this but that's all I have read since then. This seems has to be the next logical progression in computer hardware development. Once we get there, us mp3car guys will be very happy ;) This could also pave the way for more commercial applications of car pc's in commercial vehicles.
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Have I missed something or is this device already holding 4x what TFA describes?
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I've been carrying one of those flimsy USB (generic "EZ-DRIVE") flash drives in my pocket every day for 3 or 4 years; got it for $35. Cheapo plastic and with similarly cheap plastic top. I've dropped it before. I've never had a problem with its operation, and the top doesn't pop off, even when dropped. They are not as fragile as you think. The only problem I've had with its construction is that the logo on the side eventually wore off, so the surface is now smooth and worn.
"But at 16 GB you could keep a good bit of your life there,"
Yea, if you're an empty shell of a human being.
...rather it's..umm...I got nothing.
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Easy - since most PCs I come across let you boot from USB in BIOS, I'd keep a copy of every damned Linux Distro (and a few Warez Windows versions) so I could install whatever OS I choose on any spare machine I get my grubby hands on.
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16GB flash? At last your average ./er will be able to keep 0.01% of their favourite pr0n with them at all times.
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It seems silly to carry around a ton of gadgets when maybe one or two of them would suffice. There is no sense of style in having a belt full of devices or bag with five different gadget in it that weighs a ton. I say, opt for what you've already got. Take me for example. I have one of the excellent Rio Karma music players. It's functionality within Linux as a USB drive is finally "getting there". So much so that the proprietary partition type has made it into the mainline kernel. So instead of having to carry all this crap with me, I just carry my Karma. :) Simple really.
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Can this thing run programs? I heard something about two different Flash drives. One that will only store information, The other is being able to have programs that are already installed on the drive. What is the diff?
yeah, this was in a slashdot article some days ago. Also they mentioned you cannot reinstall the U3 system afterwards (yet).
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You can never carry around too many portable applications.
Although most portable app are for Linux (or have both Linux and Window versions). Few Windows apps are portable because (I think) Windows developers are piss poor developers. One look at the registry of the average Windows PC proves my point. Creating portable and easily editable config files seem to be beyond the skills of most Windows developers.
Is that 16GB of porn in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
... or are you pleased to see me?
Is your dongle too small ? Do your co-workers laugh at the size of your dongle in the locker room ? Is your wife looking for a bigger dongle ? Well now you can have a frigging HUGE dongle ! How does 16 GB sound to you !
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useful replacement for a 2.5" hard drive
Would it really? What is the lifespan on these things in read/write cycle terms? Showing my own ignorance here, but I've been concerned that flash just doesn't have what it takes it you are doing lots of read/write/erase/over-write actions. I have an idea for a fanless embedded device (where I have no real expeience) that will have a bunch of read/writes and I'm torn between the tradeoff of lots of heat but reliable HDD and low-heat but worse MTBF of flash (or so i've read). I've come to the conclusion that I can put the root file system mounted RO on flash (only gets read at boot and writtent to during a firmware upgrade ) and have the data all on an HDD (which will have frequent read/writes). Can flash really replace a HDD for heavy-duty operations?
I already keep my phone in my pocket, why keep anything else? MiniSD is great. I keep a few mp3s, some tools, and anything else I need on there already.
$2800 for a USB dongle? A good kind of insane but still insane.
Sixteen gigs of storage in a USB dongle?! That's no small change... Looks like I'll be able to put all my files onto about fifty of those things, and that's a heck of an improvement over using a zillion floppies to store stuff, and then digging through all of them to find it.
Size is good and all but we really need speed. With the popularity of porable apps and U3 technology we're really going to need a push for speed. Recent speed comparison of some flash drives I use portable apps such as portable ethereal, firefox, thunderbird, portaputty and I love them but the larger apps or apps with large data such as thunderbird really lag even on USB 2.0 flash drives. Correct me if I'm wrong but the bottleneck is not the USB bus but the flash.
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Back up (with suitable encryption) my entire e-book library plus scans of all my critical documents. Then, if someting like Katrina comes through, I grab (in descending priority order) my wife, my cats, my backup drive, and my clothes, and run. The clothes are optional. The items ahead of them are not readily replaceable and so are not optional.
Who's got a Bluetooth USB stick with Flash MBs on it? Or better yet, Bluetooth USB stick with a connector for Flash?
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A dongle is a device that is plugged into a computer which allows protected software to run. A USB thumb/jump drive, portable storage device, yes. Dongle - no.
I use my 4-gig to install apps like office and adobe VNC winzip. on remote client pc's. heck, it's even faster than installing from a utility partition on a 100-meg network. I would love to be able to put a ton more apps on it. i would like to actually maube use ghost to backup an entire computer while in the field. now, I'm stuck to a usb-ide converter....
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I borrowed a relatives computer to dump pics from my digital camera onto three 1 GB keychain drives, and still had to resist filming more video...
Is that 16GB in your pocket are you just happy to see me?
... anywhere there's shock, high/low temps, and otherwise sh*tty conditions.
16GB that's great but when it will be released I bet it will cost some $$$. :-(
BUSLink has had a 64GB drive for sale since march this year. Anyhow, imagine how you feel when you find out you lost your house keys, your coffee machine key AND five grand worth' of solid-state memory in one fell swoop ! Great idea, I'm having three.
Try http://flash.atpinc.com/products/view.php?product_ id=1178
They have a flash drive called the ToughDrive that is waterproof and can supposedly withstand being run over by a small car.
So Joe Cool in accounting considers himself a regular geekster - loads a few OS's on his 16 gig USB stick and boots at work! No prob!
Lets' listen in on Joe Cool, shall we?
Hey! WTF - I'm crashing! Let me call the Help Desk! Hey - Help Desk - my system is crashing - what OS? I got Unbuntu, Fedora, Vista and XP loaded on my 16 gig USB stick - cool huh! Waddya mean you don't support OS's on USB sticks? Wassamatta wid youse guys - you in the frickin' stone age or sumpin?
Click! Dial tooooooone.....
Joe Cool - I cannot BELIEVE they hung up on me!!!!! WTF!!!!
Please file this for future reference - category - non-supported boot-devices.
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Now if someone ever said "is that 16 GB in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" it might be kind of insulting.
Seriously--If someone were to roll a RAID array of flash drives could they replace a conventional HD on a regular computer? You could run a real computer off a RAID 1+0 or 5+0 array of these things if the performance is good enough?
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hmm... this repetitive use of "Dongle" is making me wonder. Is Derek Dongle a penname for CmdrTaco?
- yea, right...
.ogg/.mp3, tune into AM/FM, and do in-line, radio, and voice recording...
- sigh... i guess i'll have to wait until next year for this one...
- and who wants just a storage dongle? i want the dongle to play
Will Bluetooth become universal enough that I can ditch my flash drive entirely and just use the 10 gig micro HD in my cell phone as storage. And without even having to take it out of my pocket!
I guess you could load it with pr0n and play with your dongle now and then...
OTOH, in some places you can get arrested for exposing your large dongle in public.
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I sure am envious of that 16GB dongle. Who cares if it's too big to put on a key chain? I'd hang that sucker on a lanyard and put it around my neck. Darn I'm stuck with a 6GB dongle. I know some poor geeks only have a 2GB or 4GB dongle. We won't even mention the 1/2GB dongles.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
umm... 16GB usb dongle drive made by Toshiba. big deal.
A company called Kanguru has been making a 64GB USB dongle drive for quite a while now.
You can buy it from many places including Tiger Direct ( Kanguru 64GB Flash Max Drive
My grandmother has a vacumn cleaner that has worked for over 20 years.
That's very funny, because as someone who was actually alive over 20 years ago, I can tell you that people said the very same thing back then.
Notice the pattern:
In the 2000s, everything built in the 1980s lasted forever; things made in the 2000s break after a few years.
In the 1980s, everything built in the 1960s lasted forever; things made in the 1980s break after a few years.
In the 1960s, everything built in the 1940s lasted forever; things made in the 1960s break after a few years.
In the 1940s, everything built in the 1920s lasted forever; things made in the 1940s break after a few years.
In the 1920s, everything built in the 19th century lasted forever; things made in the 1920s break after a few years.
And yes, I've done research on this. My grandparents are over 90 and swear that everything made since the Great Depression is crap and never lasts. I've found early newspaper op-ed pieces from the 1910s that claim the very same thing, just pushing back the date a little.
(The secret, of course, is that the things made in year X that only last a few years are long since discarded, and we only remember the things that last any decent length of time)
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
/. has ended the discussion, once and for all, about whether size really does matter
Or you just happy to see me?
How about a $3600 flash drive?
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You can buy 64 gigs now:
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http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/29/buslinks-64gb-
Which should be enough for most...
By limited edition, do they mean limited to however meany people they can get to buy it, or limited until they find out whether or not there is a large enough market to sell it on a larger scale?
32G and 16G units are also available.
I still use punch cards everyday at work. Of course, it's to scribble notes on. We've got boxes of these things lying around.
Or are you just glad to see me.
I really don't know what I would do with a flashdrive that big. Then again, I don't really do much with my 512 meg flashdrive, either - anything I need to move around, either I stick it up on my own server, or one of the couple other webservers I have access to, or if it's really big, stick it on my 400gig usb hard drive. Or if it's somewhere in the middle, stick it on my 100gig mp3 player that acts like an mp3 player in terms of having a battery, and playing mp3s, but like a hard drie in terms of plugging it into a usb port on a computer and being able to use it without any proprietary software or drivers. So I guess I'm unusual, in terms of how easy I have it, portable-storage-wise.
The question was "What would you do with 16GB in your pocket?"
:)
So I guess it's what you do with it that matters, or maybe how well you do it. Of course so far my biggest dongle is 512mb, so I may be biased. Hey at least all it takes is time and a few $ to get a bigger one, some things in life ain't quite so easy, unless you believe the Bob ads that is.
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With flash drives being made increasingly large, it would help if the smarts surrounding hard disk technology was brought to market with this cache technology. As I see it, each hard disk could interchange data with the cache, and the cache, to the host. Having hard disk systems with 16 gig caches could reduce read/write times to almost zero milliseconds.
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