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- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+99*drools* mmmm Terabyte thumb-drive....
- ViperDaimao, on 10/12/2007, -6/+66"How much space do we really need on a thumb drive?"
How many different brands of coke do we need? Different types of bread?
Thats a dumb question. There is no such thing as a need, only a want. If someone wants a terrabyte on a thumbdrive, then whats wrong with selling them a terrabyte thumb drive? - JimV, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46"how much space do we really need on a thumb drive?"
MORE! - jonrad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Personally, I'd want as much as possible. Then put all my data including os onto the thumb drive and take it with me. No need to worry about syncing bookmarks, different settings, etc.
- lava, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22The actual press release: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2006_08/pr2901.htm
"How much space do we really need on a thumb drive?"
I need a million billion gazillion terabytes of data on my thumbdrive. And even then, I'm sure I'm going to have to get two of those. - crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14From TFA: "who cares? It's a 16GB USB drive that fits in your pocket and weighs 12 grams!"
- cerrid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Are you kidding? As much as we can get! :)
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I think it great. Thumb drives don't have moving parts so are much easier to keep safe unlike say a portable hdd.
roll on 32gb - sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11How do you turn a question into a clock?
- fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10No extra drive needed, not really comparable
- RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I just hope these thumb drives stick around for a long time. I remember in the early 2000s, ZIPs were quite popular with my school, meaning everyone had to own a ZIP drive. Now the things are ***** worthless.
- 10001110101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Actually, my above comment was to the "ZIP drives are worthless" comment.. But, if I did receive an award for the dumbest question, I probably would turn it into a retro-techno analog clock.
@sstidman - that sounds like a riddle! Is the answer "By raising some hands." ? - sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"Why are you idiots digging me down??"
Maybe because we are trying to get the image of "buttfuzz" out of our brains. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I have two 1 GB thumbdrives now - I need more space along with it's own portable SQL database to categorize my 1000+ apps that all do the same thing.
I need one for work, one in my wallet, and I'm thinking I need one lying around my desk at home too...
more space is always better, if I don't buy one directly, it allows me to buy 3 more 2GB modules that have deflated in price due to the bigger drives like this =) - kanned, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Why is this news? Kanguru has been selling a 64GB USB drive for a while now...
http://www.pcmall.com/pcmall/shop/detail.asp?dpno=7048254&store=pcmall&source=pwbfroogle&adcampaign=email,pwbfroogle&wt.mc_id=pwbfroogle - GeneralFault, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13"How big do we need a USB drive anyway?"
That is the kind of question asked by someone with no imagination. I for instance am using a USB flash drive as a hard drive on an emedded system that is subject to high vibration, heat differences and the occasional car crash. A 16 GB USB drive is bearly big enough. Thanks.
Reminds me of when Bill Gates famously said that nobody would ever need more than 64K of memory. - 10001110101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'm thinking of turning mine into a retro-techno analog clock.
- 10001110101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"How much space do we really need on a thumb drive?"
How big was the Internet again? - josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11More Space = More Porn!!!!
- imdrfreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6How about in laptops, to save battery life? If it would give me a few more hours, I'd love to use internal flash instead of a regular hdd.
- imdrfreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I need 300 GB on a thumb drive, thanks.
- VarianX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Not sure I follow you. Yes, available space increases along with required space, but there is no evidence to support one outpacing the other. You say you used a 1GB HD to run Win95 and Office 95 10 years ago and now it's outdated and won't run today's OS/Office app.
So you have to upgrade...the "middle of the road" HD of today is what, 120GB? Plenty of space to run today's Windows and Office.
The question is asked because it's a valid one...Why can't a Flash drive be used as an OS/Swap drive at the very least? Architecturally it just makes sense. Integrate it onto the motherboard, and make it swappable/upgradeable. Plus, it's faster than IDE and even SATA2, and 16GB is plenty to hold Windows XP and a Swap partition even at full c:windows bloat.
Th - gohoos, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11640 K aught to be enough for anybody...
- DalekoProvidek, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9A little more. The soul weighs approx 21 grams.
http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp - MikeCerm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I could live with 16 gigs in my laptop, if it could get me 12 hours of battery life, without any performance hit. Unfortunately, NAND is only reliable for a few thousand write/erase cycles at best, it's not really fast enough to run an operating system quickly from, and it's 10 times as expensive as plain old magnetic hard drives.
NAND will get there someday, but capacity isn't the problem. Hard drives can work for years with constant reading and writing. NAND can work for months under the same conditions. Large capacity solid-state, with decent speed, that lasts a long time, for a reasonable price, is still a decade away. - sparhawk9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I need one to keep instant backups of my system so I'd say um 2TB or more
- sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The size of flash drives is increasing at a rate that is vastly faster than the rate of increasing consumption. I have several 64 MB flash drives in my computer bag. I got those 2 years ago, and at the time those were probably some of the largest flash drives on the market. Yet here we are, two years later, and now we have 4 GB flash drives on the market, a 64-fold increase in 2 years. Do you really believe that storage consumption is increasing at that rate? Flash drive capacity will easily overtake storage consumption for most people over the next few years.
And don't make the mistake of assuming that you are an average user. Most people who buy 160 GB drives use far less than half of that space. You are probably a typical computer geek with tons of software, MP3 files, porn, etc. but don't assume that most people are like you. My dad could get by easily with a 50 GB drive. Most people are like my dad in their computer usage (my dad does not have a porn collection; I maintain his computer and he doesn't know enough about computers to hide anything from me ;-).
And be careful what you put in blogs like Digg. In a few years, I might just point to your post in the way that people point to the supposed Bill Gates "640K" comment. We'll all have a good laugh at your expense as we all reminisce about the absurdity of how we used to store our data on spinning magnetic platters ;-) - brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4We need at least a 50 GB thumb drive because thats the max size of an HD-DVD image.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"How much space do we really need on a thumb drive?"
Enough to run our entire OS, all our portable applications, contain a partition for all our documents... AND have space to spare.
And that probably still won't be enough as I'm sure people will find more uses for extra space. - ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6rule #7: dont ask a question in the article description.
- trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just make sure not to cheep out on the multi-gig flash drives..
USB 1.1 & 2 gigabytes = over night file transfers. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2074958
64GB... take that!
It was in the article, but this exists, fits in your pocket. Only for the rich though.....
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2074957
A cheaper one with less memory.
This is impressive though
Oh. Someone beat me to it. Thats what I get for not reading comments and posting - MixedSpleens, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4it can get infinately big, but I want something that doesnt come FAT formatted, where I can put DV videos and DVD images on without running up against the 4gig limit. Given you can reformat it, but XP doesnt like NTFS thumb drives too much (doesnt support quick removal, and I cant write to it with my mac) and HFS+ isnt an option (no first party PC support)... grr
- Ramble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd say 1000 Volkwagons. Give or take.
- sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wonder how long it will be till we start seeing PCs sold with a flash drive instead of a hard drive. For a lot of situations, 16 GBs is plenty and some folks might be more interested in a system that can take a massive shock.
The untold story is the speed of these flash drives. Hard drives are still quite a bit faster than flash drives, but flash drives keep quietly getting faster and faster. If things continue at the current pace, there might be large flash drives on the market in a few years that are actually faster than hard drives. At that point, most of us will be ditching our hard drives. Assuming the flash drives are reliable. - balleyne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ugh.... more memory space in a COMPACT fom is not gluttony. It's not materialism. It's not, "I want more I want more I want more more more".
It's efficiency. More memory with LESS space. - gtchen66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@eragmus, an even smarter move than that would be to pay 3x and get only 12.5x the capacity.
- Eragmus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Uhhh smarter move would have been to pay 3x more but get 125x more capacity: about $24 for 1 GB at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820233008
That's a proven item too, and good quality! - flypcide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone know if there's a memory card reader that'll attach to a usb thumbdrive so you can download digital cam stills directly to it? That'd be one reason, and very good use, for a high capacity drive.
- cjmovie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Except for the Sony batteries, of course.
- Ascus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Answer to "how big is it good enough?"
When I no longer need a spinning hard drive in my computer. Given the people use terabytes of space now on their home entertainment PCs. There is plenty of room on to grow before being too big.
It is impressive that flash drives are progressing faster in storage capacity than HD. So about 10 years out, Flash memory may be faster than hard Drives, per PB. (Petabyte) - PrometheuZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It went up in price...last time I checked it was going for a mere $2799.99!
- Vermifax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2WAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(half-assed impression of Jodie Foster in "Nell") - xanik266, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I liked the idea of turning computers into thin clients myself...
Personally for me though, I can see a LOT of bennefits... I could take a 30gb drive to work, use a few gigs for a substitute for RAM (since my machine only has like 256. :*/ ) And use the rest of it to view video play music, use my own apps, etc. I think it's a really neat idea that will only grow with time.
Then, if you think about it, storing docs on the interwebs won't really be needed, because you have your HD with you all the time. (Maybe Google should start to write apps for thumb drives? hehe) - rhrrs2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hmmm... I was thinking at least 40GB!
- micramm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As people suggested it'd be cool to replaced laptop HDD's with these. No spinning/moving parts -> less power use and better durability. Also nothing catches fire.
- spitfire6006006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1have you ever used a drive on a computer anywhere? you can never use the full capacity
- viking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1actually it seem that there more testing how much they can squeeze into a certain size...when they get to 128GB the prices of the 16 and 32s will drop...maybe gearing up for the internal flash drives...128GB SATA flash drive for laptops and such :)
- WildBil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can boot off my flash drive 512 now if I reconfig bios and use a limited OS
- eliteeggnog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Of course, the answer to life, the universe, and EVERYTHING:
42GB.
Or maybe 42x1GB drives, or 42x42GB....mmmm, GB.
~eggnog -
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