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New 4GB Flash Drive Packs Quite a Punch
PCPro has a neat little tidbit about a new flash drive from Corsair. This little drive, only half the size of a lighter, packs a punch with 4GB of data storage and a very reasonable price tag (approx $32 USD). "When a Corsair rep turned up at Dennis Towers yesterday he told us he'd brought something pretty special to show off. We were therefore distinctly underwhelmed when he said it was ... a flash drive. But this flash drive needs seeing to be believed. It's been passed all round the office, where it's invariably been greeted with ooohs and aaaahs of grinning appreciation."
A tiny flash drive? Honestly?
I'd rather have an 8 gig drive that's the full size of a lighter.
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Can I be the first to say....So what?
So, does Slashdot get paid for this kind of advertisement?
See! Even the goatse trolls are less than enthusiastic. "Stories" like these bring everyone down.
"looks down at his lighter-sized, $35 8 gig flash drive* and this is big because?
That's not even the smallest flash drive I've seen. It looks bigger than a mini-kart. "Old thing comes in new, slightly smaller size, news at 11"
I keep one of these in my wallet. It's wafer-thin. Pretty much the size of a flash chip plus a USB connector wafer. They come in sizes up to 8GB.
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In their defense, it IS pretty small...
Maybe they left off a 0 on 40?
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You can get higher capacity drives than that in more compact packages. It's a little cheaper than the 4G version of this drive but the Sandisk product's got it beat to hell for coolness.
Wait a minute. Did I just say that out loud?
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... but it certainly is rediculous... OMG a small flash drive! Umm.. Smaller flash drives of the same or larger capacity already exist... Why the hell is that on here? People complain about things being not news all the time if they're not interesting enough, but this literally is not news for nerds, in the sense that we are all already aware that small flash drives exist, it is not terribly cheap by comparison to other small flash drives, and it has no seemingly special features. It is also not "stuff that matters". I don't complain about things not being news normally (or maybe ever on this site?) but this is just plain ridiculous, please never, ever, post things like this, it dilutes the value of the other articles on your site. -Taylor
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I would post that as an "ask slashdot" unfortunately, it would never be accepted :(
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Recently I bought a 2Gb flash drive that was just like that one except without the back on it. It was seriously about the size of a Cheez It (you know, the cheesey crackers). It was basically a millimeter tall and just had low profile gold contacts and that's it. It was seriously about 50% smaller than this one. The thing seemed so flimsy and small though that I was afraid larger objects in my pocket would crush it and I had heard they're flimsy on newegg. So I used it to even up a barter for a graphics card and now I have a PNY medium sized normal 4Gb drive. This one's a little more armored but still, smallness isn't really an issue. I can hardly find my PNY 1.5" one in my pocket as it is. Plus the tiny flash drive I got was $20 and the PNY was $40 and that was almost a year ago.
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I would much rather than a cheap 80 or 120G CF drive that I can pick up for $100. As it is, I bought a 32G for 140.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
how fast is it? Particularly, how fast can you write to it? There's very little point in having 4GB of storage if it takes 20 minutes to fill it up.
I bought an 8GB microSDHC card a couple of months ago that came with a Sandisk Mobile Mate MicroSD reader. Its dimensions are 3.2cm x 1.7cm x 0.7cm. It works great. I found the reader without a card on Amazon.com for under $2. I have no doubt that the reader could handle a 32gb microSD card with no issues.
Alright, so does anyone really care that a flash drive is now just bigger than the size the a single memory chip and USB controller chip? Does it really matter that it is "smaller"? Let me know when it breaks the 150MB READ/WRITE per second mark, then I might care...
Oh wait, this is USB 2.0, so 60MB max there on the bus... Oh well, guess I won't ever care then.
I have an amazing computer that is battery powered and fits on your lap that I would like to promote.
no wireless, less space than a nomad...lame.
seriously though, I thought this was going to be about a 4GB SSD hard disk for cheap, not yet-another-usb-key.
Wake me up when that happens.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2013240522+1309421175&name=4GB
Dam, even a 15 second foray to Newegg turns up no fewer than 4 drives that are small, have a capacity of 4 gigs, and are well rated.
Whats next, "This man in a lab coat says ____'s "Male Enhancement" product really works"
When I read the headline I assumed they were going to explain how it was super fast as well. If the size was what makes it pack a punch then you can't tell us its size and say it packs a punch, it's redundant.
Thats a PQI-style connector on the end. The real PQI drives are a much better deal. Twice as much storage, same price, including shipping:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820141265
And as far as small goes, these are smaller (although less capacity):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820141275
Tiny, yet like all Corsair Flash drives it is too wide to fit two of them side by side. Length doesn't matter. Width and height matter when you have multiple drives plugged in.
I'm going to take some pictures of my 4 GB MicroSD card, so the Slashdot editors can be awed by it too.
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this is way smaller...
Hell, if I had mod points I'd mod up the troll for this story.
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Ain't it great that we have /. to tell us about things like flash drives half the size of a butane lighter? Or that cost only a little more than twice what I've seen other small 4 Gig flash drives go for recently? Now I can be disenchanted with my 2 1/2 inch 4 Gig drive that I just paid $14 for, if only I had this new drive instead, it would be much easier to loose, and I really really need the extra physical space that my drive wastes.
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The SuperTalent Pico drives (in particular the C) are smaller. I recently purchased a 4gb model for half the price of these. You can also get the Pico with 8gb. I am not impressed with what Corsair is offering.
I found this one at Microcenter with 16GB for $60. They even have one with 32GB, but it's like $150. This is not news. Slashvertisement to say the least.
"Considering our components editor paid £50 for a single gigabyte of bulky storage just a couple of years ago, the inexorable march and miniaturisation of USB storage is plain to see."
In this case, I'm sure "bulky" is defined as "almost LARGER than a disposable lighter".
I honestly don't see how people who measure their computer experience in decades -- you know, the entire Slashdot community -- would find any aspect of this adver-story to be interesting or noteworthy. The neo-est neophyte among us remembers the days when a 4" Zip drive cartridge held a mere 100MB; the grayest and beardiest greybeards can recall a time when a hard drive held at most 20MB, and required the space, power, and ventilation of a residential clothes dryer.
Are the editors on a "half-day Fridays" schedule for the summer? Happy weekend, y'all.
I have had one of these keychain microSD card readers for about a year now. There is nothing smaller, and you can always buy a newer bigger microSD card, almost always for cheaper than a flash drive.
Still not enough space for you? Get one of these microSD card holder keychain straps and you just tripled your storage space.
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4GB flash drives (of any size) are OLD. The current "big" sizes are 8GB.
What I want is a Corsair Cruzer Titanium in a 16GB or 32GB size.
(I like my little 2GB Cruzer Titanium. It hangs off my keychain and is surviving very well on a day-to-day basis.)
Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?
cheaper than the slashvertised 4 gb one, too.
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This slashvertisement is awesome in its lameness.
How about a brass knuckles flash drive?
A flash drive with a built in stun gun?
Flash drive derringer?
Flash drive vibrator?
Any of those would "pack a punch."
This is a cute drive, but far from unique...
- Matt
I have a 4 gig flash drive that I bought that's hidden by two dimes laying on top of it and about the thickness of the same two dimes. I keep it in my wallet. It's called a Sony Micro Vault Tiny, google it if you want to see a picture.
And it didn't cost much more than this drive...six month ago. So I'm really wondering what the 'innovation' is.
On the hilarious side, the drive came with a sheet of paper as instructions which is literally 3 feet by 3 feet square unfolded. I always thought 'instruction manual bigger than the product' was a joke.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
I wonder if they do have a lighter/flash drive combo unit? I know you can get a swiss army knife usb drive combo now.
which is thinner and smaller than a penny.
With increasingly more laptop equipped with SD Slot, such card can be used in Laptop, your Digital camera, your cell phone, your Wii...
A SD Micro->USB card reader isn't much bigger either.
That flash drive is huge compared to some of the flash drives you can get now.
If you want something smaller than this, look for an SD card with a built in USB reader; and there are smaller ones still if you look.
Can we create a new category for thinly disguised advertisements like this? There's nothing special or newsworthy about this.