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New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage

Posted by samzenpus on from the thumb-drive-of-holding dept.

First time accepted submitter Dr Max writes "During Display Taiwan, Transcend and Taiwan's ITRI displayed a finger-long USB stick that reportedly offers 2 TB of storage. That's no typo. It somehow holds up to 2 terabytes worth of information. So far neither company has released anything official in regards to specs or a simple introduction, nor does the high-capacity USB 3.0 stick appear on Display Taiwan's website. But as seen in the video below, the 'Thin Card' thumb drive is even smaller than a thumb, measuring slightly thicker than a penny. It offers a minimum of 16 GB and a maximum of 2 TB."

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  1. News is spam (maybe) by mehrotra.akash · · Score: 4, Informative

    From one of the comments on the linked site:

    On the video it says "Actually the one that we looked at on display was only 16GB but the technology behind that particular 16GB stick is capable of scaling to 2 Terabytes." In other words they'll have to wait years for smaller manufacturing processes to occur before a 2 TB drive is made.

    I cannot watch the video to verify it.. but if true, then the news is as good as spam

  2. Re:It'll store 2TB, however... by jhoegl · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you who dont get the jokes above... http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/08/170235/Magical-Chinese-Hard-Drive

  3. A rather crappy sales pitch, really by damn_registrars · · Score: 4, Informative
    I actually bothered to watch the video. She said "imagine this as 2tb", amongst other things. She finished with "the usb association hasn't finished 3.0 so we haven't released this product yet".

    So really she was just selling what could happen, some day. She could have just as well promised 2pb or 2eb instead, and promised it inside a postage stamp.

    So in summary:
    • It isn't 2tb
    • It isn't usb 3.0
    • You can't buy it

    However

    • They managed to fool the slashdot editors and get on to the front page
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  4. Liars, damned liars and marketing folks... by gweihir · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is no 2TB drive. This is a 16GB with an _interface_ that could support 2TB. But wit present FLASH chips that cannot be fit into the case shown. May take another 5 years or more. Incidentally, old USB2.0 can already interface 2TB.

    So this is really a rather nomal-sized 16GB USB3.0 stick, or in other words nothing special a all.

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