Posted on 01/05/2017 11:15:30 AM PST by C19fan
Kingston Digital has announced what it claims is the world's highest capacity USB flash drive, which comes in both 1 terabyte (TB) and 2 TB flavors. Both probably much bigger than you could ever really need.
The Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate Generation Terabyte (GT) isn't exactly small. As you can tell in the picture above, where the actual body of the drive dwarfs the USB part, it's a bit bigger than, say, your regular issue SanDisk. But that's still smaller than Amazon's new portable storage device, the Seagate Duet, which can only (a relative term here) hold 1 TB.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
“Nobody will ever need more than 64K!”
You mean 10Gb drive right? In 1990 a 500Mb hard drive was a big deal.
You can already get a 2TB USB drive on ebay. I have 2 of them. Smaller profile than the device pictured in the article.
They always tell us the new tech offers more than we will ever need then we use it all up anyway.
I can hear my future grandkids asking why we only had USB drives with 1 TB.
I am still waiting to get the laser pistol that was on my lunchbox in 1974.
I don't want an "enormous" 2 TB USB Drive! I want a teensy-weensy one that will fit, e.g., into my breast pocket.
Regards,
I wonder if Hillary or the DNC have one?
“2 TB USB Drive Can Hold Everything You Need and More?”
No, not for some. I have a project that will likely exceed that by the end of this year.
Give it 10 years, and people will laugh that 1 TB took up this much space.
I have a 1 GB thumb drive from 2002 that’s enormous compared to the more recent 128 GB drive that looks like a miniature wifi adapter.
Working secretly on the Death Star???
failure and or corruption rate of thumb drives is quite high really- might be better of getting an external USB wired drives as a secondary backup just incase too- plus they are quite a bit faster transfr rate than thumb drives i believe-
I paid $2,500 to replace the 11 Meg hard drive on my Zenith 8 Bit CPM/ 16 Bit Dos computer back in the early 1980’s.
It was the top of the line prior to IBM and Apple.
Baby Boomer. I remember putting in the first 10Mb hard drives in an expansion slot and thinking no one would ever use all of this. I can tell you right now the statement that 2Tb is more than anyone can use totally false.
photographers and graphic artists use up 2 T pretty quickly-
My first PC had about that and it was bigger than anything we had at work.
A few years later, they bought a PC with a multi-tB drive to do some finite element analysis. They even hired a guy just to run it.
A year from now one of these puppies will be left behind on a park bench by some bureaucrat....
LOL! Yeah right until the programmers make their programs bigger.
For the record, I have a 2 TB internal drive and 3 additional flash drives (,2, 1 and 1 TBs). Haha!
Most are maxed out with the exception of the new 2 TB internal that I have plenty of space.
For the record, the new drives get filled up quick when you carry information over from your previous computer.
Computer geezer ping.
My first computer was an Apple Performa 405. I think it had 16 MHz speed,
4 MB of Ram, 256k of VRAM, and 80 MB of hard drive space. It was a hand-me down from my son. When I upgraded a few years later, I gave it back to him and it was still working.
In the late 1990’s we had a race at work to see who would get the first 1 gig hard drive. For sure no one would ever be able to fill a 1 gig hard drive. That was the thoughts in the 1990’s. I bet a 1 TB drive will be laughed at by 2030 if not sooner.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.