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- ani-pockdotnet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+391. Kanguru Flash Drive Max 16GB
KFDM-16G $799.99 -> $50 per GB
2. Kanguru Flash Drive Max 32GB
KFDM-32G Estimated Ship date of April 15. $1,499.95 -> $46.875 per GB
3. Kanguru Flash Drive Max 64GB
KFDM-64G Estimated Ship date of April 15. $2,799.95 -> $43.75 per GB
Hey at least it gets cheeper per GB when you buy bigger! =D
Meanwhile...
iPod:
1. 30GB iPod $300 -> $10 per Gb
2. 60 GB iPod $400 - > $6.66 per GB
Plus, you get a music/video player as bonus! :DDD
Finally:
Western Digital Caviar 250GB 16MB Serial ATA Hard Drive $95, Apr 7 (Techbargains.com) -> $0.38 per GB - JimiRigger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34I think you missed a few thousand dollars. The article says it retails for $2799.95
- ender52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10or.... you could wait 5 years and get one for 50 bucks
- theneutralnewt, on 10/12/2007, -12/+21And at $799.95, it's just in my price range! What luck!
- dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I remember the days of actually paying money for 64mb flash drives... nowadays companies give them away for filling out surveys... sigh.
- kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"Meanwhile...
iPod:
1. 30GB iPod $300 -> $10 per Gb
2. 60 GB iPod $400 - > $6.66 per GB
Plus, you get a music/video player as bonus! :DDD"
True. But drop one some time.
I went through a hard drive mp3 player (zen) in a few weeks. Flash
is the way to go. - AnnaHom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Direct link:
http://www.kanguru.com/flashdrive_max.html - theneutralnewt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10So I did miss some... I read the "Starting at $799.95" and it didn't occur to me that there were lower capacity ones listed too...
- ziffel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"The article says it retails for $2799.95"
And Kanguru's total sales .... $0.00" - bysin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Just the opposite actually, flash drives are usually two to three times faster then normal hard drives. Companies like Samsung are already making flash drive laptops because of the speed increase.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's nice; but it's not $3K nice.
- elsnow77, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6i would be scared to carry that many important things, on something that small.....too risky
- zoto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I still haven't gotten my Microsoft flash drive from a while back...
- TridenTBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wait, is it possible to make that thing into like..A HDD where your OS sits on that, and does all its stuff from that..Booting a OS from a USB flash drive with all your programs etc...that'd be cool
- NicP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Flash drives are normally slower than HDDs in terms of transfer rate, where they have an advantage is in seek time, there is no head to move along a platter like there is in a normal HDD
- Aeiri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've been booting off a 700MB live cd distro copied over to my USB drive, with the remaining 300 MB (1 GB drive) storage as encrypted /home for ~2 weeks now. Seems to run hella fast, much MUCH faster than the live CD, and just about the same as the hard drive as far as I can tell.
I made sure to have a good backup system in play due to flash drives' reputation of dieing quickly. - wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There are cheaper ways to go than an iPod. I bought (via Woot.com) a Soyo 20 GB USB cigar drive (about the size of a credit card, and maybe .5 cm thick) for $70.00. Get three for $210. Granted, those are bigger than the flash drive, but smaller than an iPod, and faster than both.
- Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Flash's sustained transfer rate is lower than an HD, butit has no seek timew, so in many cases, Flash seems faster.
- 500freestyle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I could go for a sixty gig flash player.
- smorik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4stick this thing in my head and now i can be johnny mnemonic!
- TridenTBoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4At least its not $4.6k from buy.com like the one on DL.TV!
- karamba_kid, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Just get an iPod.
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ideal for smuggling data.
- jark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Something about this title really struck me as funny; maybe the alliteration.
- sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ bysin
Flash is not faster than 7200rpm hard drives. Most new laptops have 5400rpm and a few have 7200rpm. 10000rpm HDDs (especially raid0) are a bit faster than flash. The primary reason laptop makers are switching to flash memory for storage is power consumption. Flash uses a ton less power than HDDs. - sinner0423, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It depends on a number of factors : what kind of disc it is, where you store it, etc..
Depending on those above factors, a no name brand CD-R you leave in your car that was burnt with a $20 fischer price writer could last only 2 years. But, realistically, CD-R's are "supposed" to last 50-100 years, depending on the circumstances. Obviously nobody knows for sure, because compact discs haven't been around for that long.
Just be careful with your discs, buy GOOD media, and store them in a dark, dry & cool environment. Store them in book (vertical) fashion, otherwise gravity will warp the disc over time. Follow those rules, and I'm sure in 20 years your kids will enjoy that pirated copy of Quake you ripped back in the 90's. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I can see some celebrity or business exec perhaps using one
- phlux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3things like this is all great - but waht I want to see is some real thought put into the use/design of such things in a laptop.
There should be a USB drive Bay standard that people could build to - allowing you to plug drives/mp3 players of this type into a bay/slot much like that of an SD card's use.
I also want to see the same with small wireless mice - that plug into a little bay in the cassis to dock. I should be able to dock my mp3 player into a chassis as well. (hello apple - let me dock my nano INSIDE the laptop when together) and still play off its headphone jack when the machine is closed/off)
I dont like having to pull out all the accessories in cramped locations - like a plane - and would prefer a better designed laptop.
I travel a lot for work and I like to have a big wide screen laptop (dell latitude D810) - which ends up making mousing *next* to the machine on a plane a pain. I like to use the micro mouse on the wrist pad of the unit, but still requires I pull need get/put the mouse from its sack each time I want to use...
//rant - Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"i can't imagine what it would be"
I can't imagine *who* it would be! Seriously, who pays almost $3,000 for memory? We did that for 512MB Hard-Drives back in '91, but.. Whoa. I seriously think they have to fix that price point if they want to break into some sort of a market.. Just my opinion.
Jimzip :D - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I cant imagine what it would be
- subzero256, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The 16Gb is $799
- Ralphy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Sweet but I think this is about the 80,000th flash drive I have seen on digg in the last month
- habenneas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nuts. Just nuts.
- ChromeX1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Neat but I'll wait until the prices come below $100 before I even think about opening up my wallet.
- filletophil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3why would a celebrity need 64GB in their pocket?
- addisonj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow... thats amazing you can fit 64 GB of data on a thumb drive, 10 years ago 64 MB was huge and took nice fat hard drives :P. Of course, this is nowhere near holo storage (whenever it rolls out) of a terabyte the size of a credit card... As that grows in popularity, there will be no more need for an HDD in a pc at all, through in your holo card, use the PC, take it out when your done, OS and apps an all wherever you need it. That would be awesome
- KCorax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2
ani-pockdotnet : I doubt I'm the only one thinking this but this could be a solid state replacement for an HD. If these things make their way to hybrid drives we in for one hell of a fast ride.
Plus If you want to use it in a lame way you can have Vista use it as extended swap space... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this kind of tech will get cheaper too.... soon enough everyone will be carrying these little baby's in their pocket...
- fortezza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Boss: Grr. The RAID array got corrupted, our financial records were there, and the Visa auditor is here. where is the backup?
IT Dude: Sir, on my 65GB USB drive.
Boss: Ok, well, we need it now!
IT Dude: Um, I let my kid borrow it.
Kid( at school ): Check it out, I formatted this USB drive, and now I can boot the Live CD image from it. This r0x0rs! - mistshadow2k4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2914. That's just one source reporting that cd-rs last 2 years.
What they don't mention is that a lot of this seems to have to with newer cd-rs. I have cd-rs I burned 5 years ago that still work fine, but a couple I burned just three years ago have unreadable data (and no scratches). - sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Power of the Sun In MY Hands.
- saroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, I've never had a CD-R stop working, and we've had some for five years.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Well data on CD-R only lasts about 2 years... I guess it's a tradeoff for security."
Heh, thats funny, my cd's I burned in '99 using generic brand media on my generic brand burner stored on my floor seem to work fine. I have never had a cd stopped working on me, but just to be sure, on important stuff I make 2 copies. - Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2avenger I don't know if it's just you or not but you appear to be infected with something you got from "digg tools" it appears that it is putting the site url in your comments. Might want to get that checked out, watchout for this site everyone.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2apparently someone out there has use for this
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But sun is powered by java, that'd be slow!!!
- systemtrash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I tried getting them to sponsor our podcast by giving us one of those to give away during the show, since this is indeed a great way to get your live-CD on. Done that the day they launched it. Didn't know the price then. Now I know why they didn't respond ;) (at least, that's what I keep telling myself as to being the reason why they didn't respond).
- tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The one they showed on DL.TV costed 5 grand.
- MauMan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4> this thing retails for at an MSRP of $2799.95.
Happy feeling gone. - sembetu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Would be interesting to see someone sandwich one of these into a PSP, though, you could have prettymuch any thing you want on there. One other thing... imagine a raid with about 40 of those 16GB ones... it would still be pretty small, but very interesting to see. I would imagine you could do it similar to those guys who did it with some iPod shuffles.
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