A Look at Excessive Portable Storage

Tom's Hardware has an interesting look at portable storage devices that fall a little outside of the normal bell curve. The reviewed items include Buffalo's all-flash portable storage drive, Chaintech's flash SSD w/ an additional USB port, and LaCie's state-of-the-art RAID drive based on two 2.5" drives. LaCie's drive seemed to come out on top for usability and performance with the main downside being the $600 pricetag and lack of adequate backup software, but all had interesting advantages.

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Flash Memory Software Requirements

[LowlyWorm]

I don't think software requirements are keeping up with the newer hardware. True, I am writing this from FireFox installed on my flash drive but there is often very little consideration by many software developers for the needs of the portable software market. So much of it expects data on c: or writes to the registry. Since flash memory quality benchmarks are based on number of read/writes before failure it will be interesting to see how the newer USB hardware will stand up particularly with applications such as browsers and email that do extensive read/write operations.

Now that's excessive!

[dazedNconfuzed]

1 WD Caviar 2TB internal hard drive: 0.389809 liters, or ~5TB/liter.

A C5 Galaxy cargo hold is 1,042,304.22 liters ... aka 813 petabytes.
The plane travels 518 MPH. That's NY to LA in 5.4 hours ... or about 2Pbits/sec.
Now THAT'S bandwidth!