World's first 256GB flash drive

[Dinesh]

I wonder how many pics of cute guys i could get on that, i could spend days just accessing the Flash Drive

we'll store our marriage albums in it.

 

[Lordbob75]

we'll store our marriage albums in it.

:roflmao:

~Lordbob

 

[ciphernemo]

$1,000? LOL!

Hmm, let's see. How about I just put a http://$590 256GB SSD$590 256GB SSD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609379) in a $7 external 2.5 enclosure (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121005), and I'll pocket the $400 difference?

Let's see, better performance with the SSD, and better compatibility since it uses a regular USB cable and won't block USB ports next to it.

 

[Lordbob75]

$1,000? LOL!

Hmm, let's see. How about I just put a $590 256GB SSD (Newegg.com - SUPER TALENT MasterDrive OX FTM56GL25H 2.5" 256GB SATA II Internal Solid state disk (SSD) - Solid State Disks) in a $7 external 2.5 enclosure (Newegg.com - KINGWIN KH-200U-S Aluminum 2.5" USB 2.0 External Enclosure - External Enclosures), and I'll pocket the $400 difference?

Let's see, better performance with the SSD, and better compatibility since it uses a regular USB cable and won't block USB ports next to it.

LOL you are right. But the idea here is that soon the technology will be getter smaller and smaller.

~Lordbob

 

[Cindy]

we'll store our marriage albums in it.

Awwww Dinesh (your sweet)

 

[Dinesh]

Awwww Dinesh (your sweet)

ok i'll buy the flash drive.

 

[Night Hawk]

LOL you are right. But the idea here is that soon the technology will be getter smaller and smaller.

~Lordbob

Just think, there won't be any need to lug a 1tb usb external hard drive around with you pretty soon! Your watch pocket will have your entire system backed up there!

 

[ciphernemo]

Just think, there won't be any need to lug a 1tb usb external hard drive around with you pretty soon! Your watch pocket will have your entire system backed up there!

1TB SSDs will be around sooner or later, and prices will drop. They're 2.5" wide (size of a notebook hard drive) and some of them have USB ports already built-in. And they're much, much lighter than mechanical hard drivers!

 

[raj11650]

sure the price will reduce by the time!!!

i guess pendrive of size 8 or 16 GB is enough !!!

 

[Tepid]

I was also going to mention SSD. Better Perfomance then the 20M/ps of the flash drive.

SSD is the future for which flash drives will either relay on, or succumb to.

 

[Night Hawk]

I still wouldn't mind seeing a 1tb flash drive since the main storage drive here already has better then 50% used up being a 1tb model. Just think some day having 2tb stored in your watch pocket which is smaller then the 2.5" SSD size by comparison. Space saving would be the idea.

 

[Lordbob75]

I still wouldn't mind seeing a 1tb flash drive since the main storage drive here already has better then 50% used up being a 1tb model. Just think some day having 2tb stored in your watch pocket which is smaller then the 2.5" SSD size by comparison. Space saving would be the idea.

There is a point at which Flash Drives will become obsolete. Many think that crystal storage will take over at that point. That seems like a crazy thought, but it might indeed be possible to make crystal storage cubes that could hold a PetaByte.

~Lordbob

 

[Tepid]

I saw some show a very long time ago that there is a crystal the size of a sugar cube which holds the entire library of congress (at that time) on it.

I can not find it now, but it has to be around the net somewhere, it was a PBS show or some science channel show, I don't remember exactly.

 

[Lordbob75]

I saw some show a very long time ago that there is a crystal the size of a sugar cube which holds the entire library of congress (at that time) on it.

I can not find it now, but it has to be around the net somewhere, it was a PBS show or some science channel show, I don't remember exactly.

That is the stuff.

~Lordbob

 

[darkassain]

thats actually called holographic storage...
the crystal is just the medium....
but yeah i saw the show too and the effects are astonishing....
as for how big the LoC
according to this its 10tb (all printed material)
but it changes completely if you include A/V according to this which and i qoute

when their systems are fully online, they expect to be able to digitize between 3 and 5 petabytes of content per year.

that is a large amount of data...

oh there is a HVD (which is a Holo disc) format which can hold about 500gb (although it may be able to hold 6tb in the future) per disc....
(which is a lot too in a disc...)

 

[Lordbob75]

thats actually called holographic storage...
the crystal is just the medium....
but yeah i saw the show too and the effects are astonishing....
as for how big the LoC
according to this its 10tb (all printed material)
but it changes completely if you include A/V according to this which and i qoute

that is a large amount of data...

THATS the word! Thanks DA.

~Lordbob

 

[Night Hawk]

There is a point at which Flash Drives will become obsolete. Many think that crystal storage will take over at that point. That seems like a crazy thought, but it might indeed be possible to make crystal storage cubes that could hold a PetaByte.

~Lordbob

There's a point when just about any storage medium will become obsolete. Think back about 10yrs. ago when hard drives saw a maximum capacity of around 2-16gb depending on who manufactured them. WD recently introduced the 2tb model for the desktop while external usb drives were ahead on that size.

If you really go back further then that before the IBM platform what could be labeled ticker tape with punched out holes fed data and storage was at best seen on magnetic tape well before the 5.25" floppy. SSDs are now starting to take the place of hard drives that use magnetic platters.

One of these days you'll see 10,000x1tb stored on something the size of a small watch battery.