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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
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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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.
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.
Aren't they just encouraging piracy?
"Enabling piracy" is the mindset of a consumer, not a producer.
I produce data. I can easily generate 200GB of data from a multi-day photo shoot. I would LOVE to have that much storage available to me on a stick. Right now I use a small pile of 64GB and 128GB class-10 SD cards. I'd be a little worried about having that much data in a single point of failure, but the convenience factor would be very nice.
Videographers are becoming more commonplace at weddings and other events, and I've heard them complain about the same issue: portable storage space is a pain.
Yes, some people will use them to pirate stuff. That same stuff is available off the interwebz and cards and usb drives already, so it doesn't really open a new vector.
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Large raid array for a low cost/medium performance VM environment.
Low cost in about 2 years.
How many flash drives can fit in the size of one 3.5" drive?
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
Apples and oranges. That's an internal, full-size, SATA drive. This is talking about a USB stick.
One afternoon of recording gameplay for my clan resulted in me filling up my 1TB drive. It's easy to max out large hard drives in a day without downloading a thing.
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.
My late wife was an amature nature photographer and easily filled most of a terabyte.
Not everyone has an enormous pir8ted scat porn collection.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
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.
I don't pirate at all, but want bigger disks to use as Tivo drives. Not Flash drives, of course, but heck, maybe when those get huge/cheap, then maybe so.
Even now, I download shows legally with my Tivo Stream to my iPad mini to watch on my treadmill.. (you can also stream them when in the same house, but with a semi-flaky WiFi network, I'd prefer to download them).
But I still record most things in SD, since HD recordings are HUGE. I'm starting to think about doing an off-Tivo backup drive, and the bigger the better for that. (There are already lots of tools to let you do this, I just mean doing it more routinely, with HD recordings.) I record way more than I can watch during the main season, then start to catch up during the summer. Heck, over the Xmas break, I caught up on a lot of things while most shows were in reruns.
So big drives are definitely useful for legitimate media reasons.
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.
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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.
I have several computations running right now with around 1GB of state each. I save them periodically for comparison over time/to mitigate power loss/to be able to back up if something goes awry (there is some randomness involved). It is pretty easy to get a few tens of GB of "temporary" state involved in a project, & when I move back & forth between them, it is nice to be able to keep the half-finished things around. (These computations do happen to involve some media (images in this case), but that only accounts for ~100MB of the data which is shared between all instances, the rest being oodles of floats.) & since I have a magnetic disk, saving & reloading the state can take several seconds (especially if I do it in all 6 or so instances at the same time).
Cause the flux capacitor .... ow sorry that's cassified.
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 :)