256 GB Flash Drive.... :O

What would one possibly use such a large flash drive for?

i could buy an ssd, new mobo and cpu for that. perhaps even do sli lol

Jack Bauer uses those to take down whole governments.

oh,

and for his wicked awesome music collection.

HA!

nice sig

Since they are USB3, there are a lot of applications. Wait until the price comes down and they will be hot.

When I read about stuff like this it blows my mind! Years ago (mid 70's) I worked for IBM as a tech testing their 3350 Disk Drive which was considered to be the top of the heap at the time. It was the size of a chest freezer, required 220V power and had 2 disk packs (HDA - Head Disk Assembly) that held 300M each. A string of these drives (4 in a string) held a whopping 2.4G, less than 1/10th of the capacity of that flash drive, not to mention the power, space and cost difference. Absolutely amazing!

strollin said:

When I read about stuff like this it blows my mind! Years ago (mid 70's) I worked for IBM as a tech testing their 3350 Disk Drive which was considered to be the top of the heap at the time. It was the size of a chest freezer, required 220V power and had 2 disk packs (HDA - Head Disk Assembly) that held 300M each. A string of these drives (4 in a string) held a whopping 2.4G, less than 1/10th of the capacity of that flash drive, not to mention the power, space and cost difference. Absolutely amazing!

dang dude your making me tear up lol

strollin said:

When I read about stuff like this it blows my mind! Years ago (mid 70's) I worked for IBM as a tech testing their 3350 Disk Drive which was considered to be the top of the heap at the time. It was the size of a chest freezer, required 220V power and had 2 disk packs (HDA - Head Disk Assembly) that held 300M each. A string of these drives (4 in a string) held a whopping 2.4G, less than 1/10th of the capacity of that flash drive, not to mention the power, space and cost difference. Absolutely amazing!

Yeah, I remember those too. I worked at the Santa Theresa IBM location in San Jose at that time. That's where they were made.

TVeblen said:

Jack Bauer uses those to take down whole governments.

oh,

and for his wicked awesome music collection.

and you have the best sig EVER!