everythingusb.com— Kanguru has dropped the bomb on the USB 2.0 flash drive market with a whopping 64 GB of storage space on a flash drive about the size of a pack of gum. The drive is called the Kanguru Flash Drive Max.
Apr 8, 2006View in Crawl 4
2 years? I'd really like to know where you got that figure. The company I work for has been archiving to CD-R since 1998 and as far as I know those backups are still readable. They switched to DVD-R in 2004, here's hoping that has better longevity.
I'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.
"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.
tiukApr 9, 2006
2 years? I'd really like to know where you got that figure. The company I work for has been archiving to CD-R since 1998 and as far as I know those backups are still readable. They switched to DVD-R in 2004, here's hoping that has better longevity.
aeiriApr 9, 2006
I'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.
tastypastryApr 9, 2006
The one they showed on DL.TV costed 5 grand.
Closed AccountApr 9, 2006
"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.
jozer99Apr 9, 2006
Flash's sustained transfer rate is lower than an HD, butit has no seek timew, so in many cases, Flash seems faster.
agretApr 9, 2006
learn to use the reply button kthxbye modded down
Closed AccountApr 9, 2006
I see everyone's doing the 64GB flash drives now.And the price dropped 2-3k from last weeks.