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BitMicro Takes Wraps Off 832 GB Flash Drive
Lucas123 writes "BitMicro has unveiled an 832GB NAND flash drive that will begin shipping later this year. The E-Disk Altima drive is expected to have sustained read rates of up to 100MB/sec and up to 20,000 I/O operations per second. The device features a SATA 3.0 G/bps interface. No pricing as of yet."
quit posting pictures of your face!
no idea of pricing yet, but several major limbs and a contract signed in your own bodily fluid was hinted at.
832GB SSD?! holy cow thats going to be dear.
Now tell me why anybody should want this outside of the media/video industry...
the same could be said of a 800 GB hard drive years ago. i'll explain in mathematical terms: as time, thats our X axis, increases, the Y value decreases. If you guessed Y to be the cost, give yourself a chimichanga. If you guessed Y to be anything else including, but not limited to, goat milk, give yourself a wedgie.
I think I'm going to need a bigger keychain.
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The sweet spot right now seems to be around 16 or 32 Mb. You can get an 16 Mb flash drive for about $150, but 32 Mb is more than twice the price.
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Can't... resist...
1999 called... they want their flash pricing back.
Or, if you'd like, I'd be willing to sell you some 32Mb flash cards for, shall we say, $100 a piece?
(Sorry.)
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no evidence that they actually have working hardware.
This is a good point and you are right to be cautious. Obviously there will be massive technological challenges to overcome in order to move past the current state of the art, which is loads of flash connected to an SATA interface, to this new paradigm of having shitloads of flash connected to an SATA interface.
I'm not an expert, but I'm thinking perhaps they can start by adding more flash?
zOMG that means cars should be like $5.99 now since they were hella expensive back in the day, right?
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I am confused. Surely the global population of pirates factors into the equation somehow?
the curve of time to car value is far different from the curve of technology value over time. For example, a car is considered an antique after a certain period of time, in which its value goes up (if properly maintained and restored)!
:P
try selling a nintendo or an old watch calculator made in the 80s in 10 years, I doubt you'll get more than a 5-10 bucks. The point is, the car analogy has yet again made someone look like an idiot
If I can't buy it yet, then it doesn't exist yet.
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Does it come with a free copy of Duke Nukem Forever preinstalled?
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What has this got to do with Apple?
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Perhaps they are giving the formatted capacity.
I know. I don't believe it either.
I can only imagine the reactions of people who will have to come up with that in a few months when they heard it from the management.
Poors Law?
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