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- Khlept0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39Actual price. $5,000
- DrGonzo1184, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33Those would be expensive keys to lose!
- Progranism, on 10/12/2007, -6/+33Am I mistaken in thinking that flash drives have a limited lifespan? Don't they fail after a certain number of read/writes? Maybe my memory is just bad today (no pun intended).
If they do wear out, then there's no point to them. I demand a Zero Point Drive, one which stores my data in subspace, using powerful electrosexual diodes and other technobable. - seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16It would be kinda hard to put a physical object inside of a virtual audio format file...
- Permanent4, on 10/12/2007, -9/+22You can get a new Toyota for $5,000? News to me.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19Companies. The apostrophe is possessive, as in "This is the company's ridiculously overpriced flash drive." Never, ever use the apostrophe to indicate plural.
- matthewecornish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10You're right. And turgor is pretty much spot on - manufacturers will say X number read/writes but it's not a definative number... and the average user with his or her 32meg stick for carrying word documents around isn't going to hit that in a hurry. And I'd like to think something with 64gigs storage on it has a very large read/write figure. But it's not like I'm gonna to lay down US$5000 for it and find out...
- robotplague, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1764!? By golly, I'd need that repeated at least...heck, at least 3! Three! 3! times before my mind could register that.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's not a (real) problem anymore, with the right combination of hardware & software.
See, for example: http://www.bitmicro.com/press_resources_flash_ssd_db.php
"[...] All of these prove that despite the erase/write endurance limitations, Flash drives are reasonably priced and can outlast traditional storage devices for practical use in database and other enterprise applications." - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Maybe he has O (1,2,3,4) C (1,2,3,4) D (1,2,3,4)....
- TheKillDoctor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I have washed and dried my 1gig memory stick twice and still have all my data. Try doing that with a hd based portable.
- meepus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't think so. Because of the nature of solid state memory (no moving parts) it's less likely to get destroyed (and by virtue of that, get your data destroyed). Because it's just recently become a fad (which is how technology gets cheaper: mass adoption) it is still quite expensive. The more people buy flash drives, and the more companies like Apple use solid-state in products like the iPod, the lower prices will become on the manufacturing the chips, and as a result of that, the products in stores.
- diggik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5For an integrated circuit, external physical size is huge compared to its electronic size. That exterior is mainly to support the connecting circuits outside of the unit. Take a look at most CPU press wafers and you'll see there are fifty or more CPU's on them. The outer edge chips would be the only ones unusable. The CPU with pin-out is ten times as large as its interior CPU just so that CPU can connect with the motherboard pin-out AND be manageable by humans during assembly.
The only reason there is much size to these flash drives is so 1) the consumer can keep track of it and 2) it can connect via its USB connector (again huge by comparison) to the device you're connecting it to. - DyceFreak, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9"You can get a new Toyota for $5,000? News to me."
most people wouldn't be able to afford a new car, and then a $5000 flash drive, or vice versa.
once you move out of your parrents house, you'll understand. - manitcor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5looks real, its listed on the companies web site
http://www.buslink.com/B1/p_BDP2U2.shtml
and i found at least one e-tailer that lists prices on each size:
http://www.buslinkbuy.com/p_cat1.asp?catID=205
I like the honesty in thier listing, I guess when you selling a product for $5000 you damn well better be honest about the difference in advertised and formatted capicity:
"**Disclaimer - Actual storage space that you will enjoy may differ as indicated. Digital storage industry measure on base 10, while computer software measure on base 2. (for more detail, please see NIST definition) When you buy an 80GB hard drive, it may only show 74GB available space on your Windows. " - roguepirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Flash is not overated espicially when you're talking about portability. It takes a lot less to power flash chips than it does to power a hard drive even when its a 1" drive. Compare your battery life of a digital camera when using CF and when using a Microdrive. you're only as portable as your battery life.
- roguepirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4With 64GB in a usb stick, flash notebook hard drives will be just around the corner just imagine the improvements on battery life and reduction in size of notebooks. It's good to see flash capacity growing.
- YourTechSupport, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4640x480? Get with the times man!
If it's not high-definition 1024 wide it's not worth looking at! - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's little matter of hope, and distinctly a matter of time.
- SquirrelOnFire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+560 gig iPod video vs This 64 GB thingie.
Round 1 Capcity. Winner. Thingie.
Round 2 Geek factor. Winner: Thingie.
Round 3 Staying ahead of the Joneses: Winner: Thingie
Round 4 Can you watch pr0n on it? Winner iPod
Overall grand contest single elimination deathmatch Winner: iPod. - EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So, any takers on how much longer it'll be before we see digital cameras and cellphones become USB Host-mode capable? At these sizes, it would be all to practical to do once the price drops a bit.
- Pplus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Am I the only one that has a hard time believing that they could cram 64GB of flash memory into a stick that small?
Even if they had numerous 4 or 8 GB chips (not sure what the biggest one they are manufacturing now is) stacked on top of one another it still seems like a stretch. - robdavy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A *LITTLE* extra weight?! This thing goes on your keyring - try doing that with a Mac Mini..
- Cerberus047, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i love the people who say stuff like that
Oh i got an mp3 for cristmas... i say o really i have like 300 of those in my pocket!! (that really messes with them) - Seidoger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Imagine a 60 gigs flash based iPod.."
Imagine the price! - manitcor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Id say this product is analogous to having a high dollar sports car in a showroom. No, most people aren't going to be interested in that high end sports car but its mere existence in the showroom gets people looking at their other products on the way in and out. It give credibility to their lower end products even if its not properly founded. Its all marketing. Though I'm sure there will be one or two rich geeks out there that will just HAVE to have one of these things.
- hayden.evans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow imagine a 60 gig nano
- geojessb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's the kicker is the price. I think that it would be great technology. Apple should be looking to flash drives, or throw in that biological brain matter for extra storage, and then maybe even throw in some holographic storage. Who knows. The future of HD is smaller and bigger, and completely open. Very exciting to see what will be next. What's the next toy my wife gets to tell me I can't have.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hmm, well, my real world "research"..
5 USB flash drives into the rubbish, working on number 6. 1 20 gig iPod used every day and carried with me everywhere: 2 years no problems.
2 Lexar physical failures (cases or boards cracked) the other 3 just stopped working (1 PNY stopped responding to the world, 1 Generic Best Buy brand will only allow reading and not writing and there is no lock switch or anything, and 1 NEC will pretend like its working but when you diff the files they are horribly corrupted.) - Mindstormer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2woah, It would be cheaper for me to buy 64X 1gb sticks, I would save 500 bucks too, but then i may as well buy a hard drive. It will be awesome when they come down in price though. Just give it a few years and having a 1gb will be laughed at as you might laugh at someone with a 16mb usb stick.
- equusdc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, with their (very strange) pricing model, the cheapest would be 16x4GB @ $3984 or $62.25/GB. Inexplicably, the worst would be 8x8GB @ $6392 or $99.88/GB, with the 64GB model costing only $4999 or $78.11/GB.
WTF? - mjaleo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Typically you wouldn't be able to put a Mac Mini on a keychain, though.
Or run without a power cord... - streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes -- or we need to see the proliferation of USB On the Go, where the media becomes host. We then just need a simple file manager on something like a 4-line LCD.
- Writher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting perspective on the size. So why are there not flash drives that are 1 Terabyte+? Purely for economic reasons?
- dombi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1RAID 0+1 with FlashDrives... sweet!
http://www.epidauros.be/raid.jpg - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yes, there is software to extend the life.. but do you want to bet that it's being implemented yet?
- GazP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.gazp.co.uk/v2/userfiles/gazp/64gb.jpg
Click that for a size comparison....
its quite big and bulky, but 64gb.... you could walk around with half of blockbusters in your pocket..... - wilsonics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i think they would make more money just making a sata2 interface 2.5" internal drive....for all those laptops and desktops....people would be more likely to buy that to upgrade boot drives. They could probably make it work better, and most likely use cheaper chips...
Hell, i only need about 20gb for my boot drive....the rest i can offload to a standard hard drive.
I'm still calling shenanigans though. - j0keR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hopefully this will drive the costs down on lower-capacity flash drives as well now. There's no reason a 2 or 4 gig flash drive should cost anywhere from $50-$100. At the price they are now, I would rather just get an external hard drive.
- noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's not surprising.
Look at the size of that thing, it's just crammed with recent expensive flash chips, most likely from Samsung. Not impressive, just expensive. - Onibus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd raid 0 three them using a USB 2.0 hub.
Anyone have the link of the Ipod Shuffle raid?
Now that's what I'm talking about :P
POWER! - lico05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Damn, those keys would cost more than my car.
- denaje, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm up for booting XP off my flash drive! But with transfer speeds that slow, it would take forever! Hmmm, maybe Windows 98...now there's an idea! But the problem is, would the BIOS recognize the flash drive in time to load the OS? Because I thought that it required USB drivers in order to be recognized by the computer...
- dbalaski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can see a use for large sized drives like this.... Such as Software installs (Like an OS in a corporate environment) -- provided the thru-put is good enough.
This also makes the point that alternatives to Magnetic storage (ie: Solid-State Storage) are becoming a more viable medium. Just a matter of time for the price to fall in line. - tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, Flash drive technology is expanding pretty fast. I have a USB flash drive that no one has ever heard of. The brand is Apacer, and it's pretty cool. It's advertised as the World's Fastest USB flash drive w/ read speeds @30MB/sec and write speed of about 18MB/sec. It's pretty fast compared to other flash drives.
I don't know why you would need 64GB flash drive, since they're supposed to be used for trasnferring files to other computers, documents, etc... I guess you could use it as a external drive for many things. - Bluezdood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Faaaaarrrrr too expensive to even consider.
- sych0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Headline should read 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive. Yes, GB.
As I read MB and thought "wtf's the big deal? of course its flash" - xLiKx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1holy crap, that's one expensive flash drive O_o
- PumpkinEscobar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So is the attached key to be used to kill the higher brain functions of your ship's computer when it wigs out and tries to kill you and your fellow astronauts?
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