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BitMicro Takes Wraps Off 832 GB Flash Drive

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the will-only-cost-an-arm-a-leg-and-your-firstborn dept.

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."

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  1. Mortgage? by mudetroit · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unless they came up with some radically cheaper method of producting them this will basically probably require a mortgage to go out and buy.

  2. Re:hmm. by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now tell me why anybody should want this outside of the media/video industry...

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  3. Re:hmm. by easyTree · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now tell me why anybody should want this outside of the media/video industry...
    To lower power consumption/size/weight of laptops?
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  4. Re:832? by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, that's an odd number

    No. It is even.

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  5. Re:832? by Rickz0rz · · Score: 5, Informative

    832 = 64 * 13 Perhaps they are using 13 64mB modules.

  6. Re:hmm. by sc7007 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now tell me why anybody should want this outside of the media/video industry... I work in the seismic data processing industry (oil and gas exploration). We regularly (almost every project) deliver datasets to clients that are on the orders of 1-5 TB. Many of our milestone QC datasets for clients are 500-750 GB. Putting these on a flash drive or portable hard drive is much faster than a bunch of 3592E tapes, plus easier and quicker for the client to access. Flash drives certainly have the advantage over USB hard disks of being faster to write to (usually). If these were cheap enough, and they will be at some point, I could see these being commonly used. On the other hand, maybe just a solid state portable disk drive, which these are just a variant of, will be cheaper (time and money).
  7. Re:Sorry by modecx · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I can't buy it yet, then it doesn't exist yet.

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  8. USB power, that's not the question. by Tatarize · · Score: 5, Funny

    But, can it blend?

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