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Kingston Introduces 1TB Flash Drive
Deathspawner writes "If there's one thing that each CES can bring, it's a handful or products that manage to drop jaws everywhere. Kingston's latest flash drive series, DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0, manages to be one of those. It's aimed at folks who actually need mass storage on the go at speeds that mechanical hard drives cannot offer. Available soon will be a 512GB model, followed by the 1TB later this quarter. The drive features read speeds of 240MB/s and write speeds of 160MB/s — not quite desktop SSD speeds, but much faster than a mechanical hard drive, and with vastly reduced latencies due to it being flash storage. Not surprisingly, pricing has not yet been discussed."
porn collection in your pocket or ...
Somewhere I saw ~900 Eur for the 512GB model, which is nearly USD$1200
So how many library of congress is that?
Awesome
DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0
I laughed for about half a minute at that name. Next year: Mega Terminator X-treme 5x5!!!
If you're interested in snagging one of the top two units, be advised that the price of the 512GB edition is a staggering $1,750.00 -- so you'd better get working on impressing that MLB scout next time they're passing by.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/kingston-1tb-flash-drive/
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
They've offered a Swiss Army knife with a 1TB drive for over a year now.
Now everyone wants to catch a Predator.
Not surprisingly, pricing has not yet been discussed.
If under $150, this might be my default Linux installation hard drive with a persistent installation. One desktop with consistent programs and data on any computer I use would be very nice.
We should learn what we need to know about issues, before we decide what we need to feel about them.
As a guy with several computers and with the most recent one boasting a mere 100ish GB space (I never really needed more). I have always been curious about something, my own drives cause me quite a lot of time wasted on defragmentation, otherwise I would get meet those pesky bottlenecks way too often for my taste. So I wondered how that much space, 1 TB or more could affect defragmentation. I mean by that, would a regular 1 TB drive start bottlenecking at the same point (of frequency of use and space usage) as a mere 100 GB drive, or does the added space add to the "tolerance" of such a drive?
8GB drives were something to salivate over, because you could store an entire DVD on it.
Now these things are so commonplace I have them littering my desk, giveaways from tradeshows, vendors, etc. You can get them in amusing shapes of Taz, Hello Kitty or Dora the Explorer at the office store.
Finally dipping my toe in the water with an SSD for the desktop machine. It's been running for years on a pair of Seagate 160GB SATA I drives, which are near capacity. I thought about buying a couple of 1.5 TB drives, but reviews are very dismal on mechanical storage drives now. Seems a lot of old manufacturers are being bought up by Seagate and Seagate and Western Digital will soon be the only players left in a "buggy whip" market. Hard to beat the GB/$ deal with hard drives, but with 1 year warranties and a lot of DOA deliveries, plus quite a lot of drives which seem to die within the first year, I'm not super inclined to put my valuable files on them.
Here's hoping by the end of the 2013 we have some good prices on high capacity SSDs and In can move my photos, videos and miscellaneous crap onto new drives.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I bought a 512GB SSD for $400-ish. It's about time somebody stuffed that kind of drive into a USB stick. It should have mass market appeal so the volume should be much higher than regular SSDs.
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I don't need high performance - I just want a large (1TB+) and inexpensive flash drive - why don't these exist?
Couldn't I just take a desktop SSD along in a dock with USB and eSATA ports and be happier at lower costs? I guess maybe I'd pay about as much, but I probably don't need ALL of that capacity as flash. Maybe a hybrid drive would be good. Lots of data on platters, and the project I'm currently working on cached in flash.
Aren't they just encouraging piracy?
What are you going to fill it with? Maybe not those 1TB monsters, but 100GB or even 50GB, what are you going to use them for?
Don't get me wrong, the way I see it, the hardware market exploded in the past 15 years, BECAUSE of piracy; I don't want/expect to see it end anytime soon, but still, how do you justify buying something like that?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/09/swiss_penknife_ssd/
Upward mobility is a slippery slope - the higher you climb the more you show your ass.
Newegg has this listed.
So, yeah.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
... did this make Windows 3.1 boot real fast? If it lost the data when power was removed, you still have to boot from the "real" disk. Even 3.1 did _some_ caching.
It's a good thing you're bearded. "Beardo the Clean Shaven" just doesn't have the same ring to it!!!
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Does Sephiroth also store his data in the Cloud?
http://www.kingston.com/us/usb/personal_business#DTHXP30
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Erases on flash are still sequential, at least to the extent that all the sectors in an erase block must be copied to another sector before any of the sectors can be modified.
remember this yall?
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/03/1536202/quad-core-stick-pc-runs-ubuntu
like i said before: 8 gb on that thing's drive is unacceptable. if they can do this tb usb stick, surely we can get more drive space on that stick pc
Looks like NTFS was intended. While it doesn't fragment as badly as FAT it still doesn't wait as long as most other file systems to write so still fragments a lot more than ext, ufs, zfs and the rest. It's a tradeoff between faster writes (NTFS style) or faster reads later on (just about everything else).
100% failure within one year, with minimal usage. None of the drive were ever more than half full.
Pretty much anything could be called a piracy enabler. Heck, why does us wee folks even need open source software? Can't we do everything we otter do with microsoft and apple giving us their breadcrumbs into their birdcages and walled gardens? Why we must want control over our hardware and software because we be pirates, AAArgh!
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I run Knoppix as a live distribution off a USB stick (a 64-GB one using K7.02 updated and upgraded to the latest level) and I'm hitting the end of the sticks capacity with all of the extra software I've installed on there. That's not even counting any media files on there beyond the "beeps-boops-doo-dah" sound effect OGG files on the OS. I can easily see lugging everything I want to around with me on a single stick. Every PDF and reference article I see and read, every page I want to review later when I'm offline, all of the sheet-music I've legally acquired and paid for could be with me on my person at all times. So where do you get off saying that there are no legal and legitimate reasons for wanting all of that capacity.
;>p
Just because your brain needs only 2^19 + 2^18 bits doesn't mean that you can tell all of us that "640KB ought to be enough for everybody"!!
"Klingon Introduces 1TB Flash Drive"... Instantly confirming my suspicion that Star Trek was an elaborate enculturation ploy -- why else would we be porting our holiday carols, plays and other cultural events--- Then I read it again, made a prolonged sad face, and went to make more coffee.
so I can have a never dies/crashed/fails HD replacement at cost of a cheap used car
Tell that to the guy a few comments up the tree who asked a question about fragmentation on spinning drives instead of the people replying. Your comment is kind of irrelevant on a thread that has nothing to do with solid state storage :)
Gee, seems to me that the Flash revolution is taking WAY too long to happen. Way back in 2008 I was talking to a Chinese manufacturer who could supply me with 300+ GB flash drives for about $300 a piece. Um, that was almost 5 years ago. The mainstream flash drive producers need to catch up with the times. It frustrates me to no end when I see that the internal flash drives you can buy for your laptop are these itty bitty little drives packed in a 2.5" enclosure thing so you can put it in your computer. Why not just increase the amount of chips in the drive, boost the capacity of the drive, and make the damn thing the same size as a 2.5" drive?
I can't wait till I can have a 10 TB flash drive in my laptop. I wouldn't have to store all my music (downloaded, produced, bought, etc.) on an external drive. And I could have more videos (the 4k vids are a bitch to store) on my computer hard drive and not have to store them on external drives. But I'm afraid at this pace I won't see that day for another 10 years or so...
I'm not a professional, just a mid grade heavy space user. I have had to delete 100 or so GB of stuff that I had to deem not worthy to take up that space on almost a monthly basis when I was doing a lot of downloading. I also often record 20 or so GB videos and have to delete the files after I have converted them down into a more compressed format which usually spits out a 1 GB or so file. I'd rather be able to save all these files than have to keep deleting them. I'm not even recording in HD yet either.
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