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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 $1,750.00 -- so you'd better get working on impressing that MLB scout next time they're passing by.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/kingston-1tb-flash-drive/
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They've offered a Swiss Army knife with a 1TB drive for over a year now.
Now everyone wants to catch a Predator.
8GB drives were something to salivate over, because you could store an entire DVD on it.
Now these things are so commonplace I have them littering my desk, giveaways from tradeshows, vendors, etc. You can get them in amusing shapes of Taz, Hello Kitty or Dora the Explorer at the office store.
Finally dipping my toe in the water with an SSD for the desktop machine. It's been running for years on a pair of Seagate 160GB SATA I drives, which are near capacity. I thought about buying a couple of 1.5 TB drives, but reviews are very dismal on mechanical storage drives now. Seems a lot of old manufacturers are being bought up by Seagate and Seagate and Western Digital will soon be the only players left in a "buggy whip" market. Hard to beat the GB/$ 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
SSDs might not, but the filesystem does.
You don't need to defrag a filesystem on an SSD, because the purpose of defragging is to remove the need for random seeks, which are slow on a spinning magnetic disk.
Since the penalty for an extra random read on even a "slow" SSD is around 0.1ms (with fast drives around 0.03ms), even a horribly fragmented file wouldn't make much difference compared to "read X consecutive blocks". For example, if every block required a separate "read" command because the file was completely fragmented, it would take nearly 100 blocks before you'd hit the penalty for a single extra seek on a mechanical hard drive.
And, nearly all that penalty is for the OS and hardware, because every read on an SSD is really random with respect to where the data really resides (because of the wear-leveling algorithms). So, even if you read 20 consecutive disk blocks, you might be reading from 20 different areas in the flash memory.