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Post July 13th, 2009, 6:21 am

Kingston Technology, maker of data storage devices, has announced a new line of USB drives dubbed the DataTraveler 200 Series. The line will include drives of various sizes, such as 32GB ($120), 64GB ($213), and 128GB ($546), a first in USB storage capacity. The drives will all come with Windows Password Traveler and be ReadyBoost capable. The drives will also function as standard storage on OS X.
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Post July 13th, 2009, 6:21 am

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Post July 13th, 2009, 8:46 am

Are these in the shape of a laptop?
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Post July 13th, 2009, 8:56 am

Lol, one would think so, but apparently not. I did see something this morning indicating that the 128GB is available via build-to-order only.

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Post July 13th, 2009, 9:22 am

So if they can fit 128 gigs into a little 1 inch by half inch by quarter inch space, they ought to be able to double that, and quadruple it, and more. It can't be long until we start seeing terabyte size drives and larger.
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Post July 13th, 2009, 9:32 am

I remember when having 128MB on a stick was a big deal.
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Post July 13th, 2009, 9:41 am

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I remember when having 128MB on a stick was a big deal.


Add that one to my list of stuff to tell my grandkids some day. It's easy to see why new CS people are so taken aback by the idea of punch cards.
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Post July 13th, 2009, 10:25 am

There are laptops with 500 Gigs on them...
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Post July 13th, 2009, 10:53 am

On hard drives, yes. We're talking about USB flash memory sticks.
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Post July 13th, 2009, 10:55 am

And one static discharge...

I am waiting personally for newegg to carry some raid system like timecapsule for reasonable (timecapsule is a single hd, bad idea!)
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Post July 13th, 2009, 11:48 am

You know, technically you could get a bunch of these, like at least 3, and use them in a pc in place of hard drives and then set up raid across them. I don't know how you would do it in windows, but in installing fedora, anaconda will give you the option to create raid arrays when you are laying out your partitions.
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Post July 13th, 2009, 12:13 pm

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You know, technically you could get a bunch of these, like at least 3, and use them in a pc in place of hard drives and then set up raid across them. I don't know how you would do it in windows, but in installing fedora, anaconda will give you the option to create raid arrays when you are laying out your partitions.


Yes, but it would be incredibly slow.
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Post July 13th, 2009, 12:17 pm

Not to mention costly! I don't think I'd want to sink $1500+ into a 128GB redundancy system (assuming the least - 3).
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Post July 13th, 2009, 1:39 pm

Would be a sweet external RAID backup once it gets over the Tera mark.
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Post July 14th, 2009, 11:29 am

I'm kind of picturing (day dreaming about) those little pico ITX motherboards with mini SD cards each over a terabyte in storage then configured in RAID. You'd have something the size of two boxes of cigarettes but have as much storage as an entire datacenter. That would be cool.
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Post July 14th, 2009, 1:29 pm

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I'm kind of picturing (day dreaming about) those little pico ITX motherboards with mini SD cards each over a terabyte in storage then configured in RAID. You'd have something the size of two boxes of cigarettes but have as much storage as an entire datacenter. That would be cool.


I'd want one, where do I make the order at?
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