256 GB Flash Drive.... :O

[Windows i7 920]

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

 

[vierasniper]

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

 

[TVeblen]

Jack Bauer uses those to take down whole governments.

oh,

and for his wicked awesome music collection.

 

[vierasniper]

HA!

nice sig

 

[whs]

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

 

[strollin]

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!

 

[vierasniper]

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

 

[Fayla]

That would be one heck of a Window's Ready-Boost device for sure, maxing out RB all the way.

 

[whs]

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.

 

[tw33k]

Jack Bauer uses those to take down whole governments.

oh,

and for his wicked awesome music collection.

:roflmao:
and you have the best sig EVER!

 

[mborner]

Some people just like to carry around the Library of Congress.

 

[noobvious]

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

It will be popular with pirates!

 

[strollin]

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.

Not only were they made at IBM San Jose, that's where the disk drive was invented (floppy disk too).

 

[whs]

Not only were they made at IBM San Jose

Right, they were also made in e.g. Mainz, Germany.

 

[kado897]

3350's weren't they the removable ones? I remember an operator removing one while it was still rotating, the interlock failed. It threw him across the room.


On second thoughts that might have been 3330

 

[jimbo45]

3350's weren't they the removable ones? I remember an operator removing one while it was still rotating, the interlock failed. It threw him across the room.


On second thoughts that might have been 3330

3330's and older 2314's had an external "Goldfish bowl" like case and were loaded on to the IBM mainframe via opening a drawer, putting the assembly on to the spindle and REVERSE unscrewing the case to remove the outer assembly.

3350's from what I remember were fixed mounted (i.e non removable) drives.

At least it shows I'm not the oldest guy on these boards if people can still remember that hardware.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[kado897]

Inside every older person is a younger one wondering what's this all about then.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
I don't suppose you ever had to input data to your computer using THESE.



Cheers
jimbo

 

[kado897]

Oh yes. I started on an IBM 360-125 with a massive 32k of "core" (real ferrite rings) recently upgraded from 16k and a room full of girls punching cards to feed into it. Even the programs were loaded from cards and this was used to run a medium sized company. Most of the programming was assembler.

Those were the days.

 

[TVeblen]

Hi there
I don't suppose you ever had to input data to your computer using THESE.



Cheers
jimbo

Heh Heh. College days. Fortran. We used to carry our projects around in big stacks of those things wrapped in rubber bands. Never let them out of your sight! The big prank was to secretly insert a dummy card or just shuffle them up! No sleep for you!!