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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."
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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 $1,750.00 -- so you'd better get working on impressing that MLB scout next time they're passing by.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/kingston-1tb-flash-drive/
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They've offered a Swiss Army knife with a 1TB drive for over a year now.
Now everyone wants to catch a Predator.
As a guy with several computers and with the most recent one boasting a mere 100ish GB space (I never really needed more). I have always been curious about something, my own drives cause me quite a lot of time wasted on defragmentation, otherwise I would get meet those pesky bottlenecks way too often for my taste. So I wondered how that much space, 1 TB or more could affect defragmentation. I mean by that, would a regular 1 TB drive start bottlenecking at the same point (of frequency of use and space usage) as a mere 100 GB drive, or does the added space add to the "tolerance" of such a drive?
8GB drives were something to salivate over, because you could store an entire DVD on it.
Now these things are so commonplace I have them littering my desk, giveaways from tradeshows, vendors, etc. You can get them in amusing shapes of Taz, Hello Kitty or Dora the Explorer at the office store.
Finally dipping my toe in the water with an SSD for the desktop machine. It's been running for years on a pair of Seagate 160GB SATA I drives, which are near capacity. I thought about buying a couple of 1.5 TB drives, but reviews are very dismal on mechanical storage drives now. Seems a lot of old manufacturers are being bought up by Seagate and Seagate and Western Digital will soon be the only players left in a "buggy whip" market. Hard to beat the GB/$ 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.
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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.
Dennis Nedry called, he's got the complete mapped DNA of all the dinosaurs for you. He'll be delivering them as soon as he gets his car out of the mud.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Apples and oranges. That's an internal, full-size, SATA drive. This is talking about a USB stick.
I've never seen a good movie adaptation of a book. LotR was pretty good, but so much went missing or was different than what we imagined...
The worst I've ever seen was The Postman. It's one of the best sci-fi books I've ever read. I re-read it last month, and there were parts that brought a tear to my eye.
We should clone a mammoth just because we can. I mean, holy shit, a mammoth. We could do it too.
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It's a good thing you're bearded. "Beardo the Clean Shaven" just doesn't have the same ring to it!!!
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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.
Yeah, and? The date of mine is A YEAR AGO.
Upward mobility is a slippery slope - the higher you climb the more you show your ass.
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).