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Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT 2TB Is World's Largest Capacity Flash Drive (betanews.com)
BrianFagioli writes: Today, Kingston announced a product that may get people excited about flash drives again. The company has created a 2TB pocket flash drive (also available in 1TB), called DataTraveler Ultimate GT (Generation Terabyte). This is now the world's largest capacity USB flash drive. "Power users will have the ability to store massive amounts of data in a small form factor, including up to 70 hours of 4K video on a single 2TB drive. DataTraveler Ultimate GT offers superior quality in a high-end design as it is made of a zinc-alloy metal casing for shock resistance. Its compact size gives the tech enthusiast or professional user an easily portable solution to store and transfer their high capacity files," says Kingston.
everywhere you go
Imagine the horror when you're overseas, no access to cheap data and you have run out of porn to watch
... To lose EVERYTHING at once!
Heck, look at the size of the thing; looks like a great way to stress the socket when hanging off a desktop or stress the socket the opposite direction on any reasonably thin laptop as it props up the system.
Flash drives tend to die a short life if use them frequently. The ones with the USB ports that move usually fail more frequently. I'm not looking for a warranty, I'm looking for something built to last.
USB-A 3.1 and USB-C 3.1 is the same speed.
Googling about, the Kingston 1TB drive sells for $1,163. This one will be a whole lot more.
Even the cheapest plastic Chinese knockoffs can handle falling from an airplane, too. They're lightweight and have a decent amount of surface area for the weight. I keyed in some approximate weight and dimension values into a terminal velocity calculator and got an estimate of only 20 meters per second. This means it has only something like 4 joules of energy while falling at terminal velocity. The outside could be made of glass and it would likely survive without damage....
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I think you're missing my point here because of my hyperbolic comment about Mac users (on average) having more disposable income than Windows users. I guess I should tone down the snark a little.
Obviously, USB-C isn't just a Mac thing. Even on Windows machines, USB ports are being phased out, albeit not as quickly. The difference is that for Mac users, those ports are here, and they're the only ports that exist on the new machines. But even Windows users (at least the ones who are serious enough to consider buying a 2 TB flash stick) know that the writing is on the wall for standard USB ports.
To put this in perspective, at Fry's tonight, I chose a cell phone charger with a USB port over a similar product with a built-in Lightning cord because I have no faith in Apple sticking with Lightning over USB-C, and they haven't even started moving in that direction yet. And that's for something that I picked up on the spur of the moment that costs on the order of pocket change.
When I buy a flash drive, I expect it to last for several years. My current flash drive dates back at least four or five years, if not more. Any flash drive that I would buy today would almost certainly need to be compatible with my next computer, not just my current one, and I can pretty much guarantee that the next one won't have any legacy USB ports. I won't want to have to carry around a clumsy adapter in my pocket all day every day just because some engineering product manager decided to cut 35 cents off the BOM price. As such, I wouldn't seriously consider spending even ten bucks on a standard-USB-only flash drive at this point, much less thousands. It would be incredibly shortsighted to buy this product as designed.
Kingston created a multi-thousand-dollar flash drive that doesn't support USB-C at a time when the rest of the industry's new products (even at the $30 level) all have both USB and USB-C built-in. That doesn't make any sense at all. This product would have made some sense a year ago, because some folks might not have heard about USB-C back then, but now... the design looks very dated when compared with the rest of the flash drive industry.
IMO, Kingston should have spent two or three months to update the chipset and modify it with a dual connector design before releasing the product, but apparently they thought it was more important to be first than to be good. As someone who buys a lot of their flash cards (SD, CF), I find that troubling, to say the least. It makes me wonder what other corners they're cutting.
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