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.
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I finally had to switch from a 16 gig iPhone to a 32 gig.
I'm just a home user and am on my 7th external drive holding 8.5 TB
That’s OK, because this one will cost between $2500 and $5000
Then, you lose it on your desk. I just found three on mine yesterday
8.5 TB total.
My first computer had 8k of core memory (70’s era IBM 360/20). Our storage devices were 80 column punch cards. Upgraded a couple years later to an IBM System/3 that had two 2.5 mb disk drives (one removable), with 96 column punch cards for input. Now that was a big deal.
cameras are creating larger and larger photos these days- 30 mg photo is becoming pretty mainstream- 10 photos is 300 mg- Digital photographers tend to take tons of photos- even saving many in several .psd format which brings each photo well over 100 mb per photo per file-
2 T really isn’t a lot- incredible as that sounds- especially when we factor i nthat photographers work on their photos and save .psd files that are huge-
Obviously they don't know my pr0n stash.
(That's a joke.....Really!)
Must be a relative of the guy that proclaimed that "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
I just kicked up the HD in my Win10 machine from 1 to 2TB using a docking station.
my first color dell laptop, 100MB - HUGE
“They always tell us the new tech offers more than we will ever need then we use it all up anyway”
Microsoft is working on the 1.5 terabyte version of windows as we speak.
I had a Windows 95 machine with a 2GB hard drive and I was stoked that it came with a 28.8 dial-up modem. A coworker told me I’d never exceed the storage capacity. LOL
Seems to me I've heard something like that before... ;-)
Lets see, are document file formats getting smaller? Nope.
Are cell phone cameras and digital cameras in general getting less color depth, smaller pixel counts? Nope.
Are digital video formats getting smaller, lower definition? Nope.
Have people grown tired of capturing every moment of their lives in tweets, selfies, and videos? Nope.
Given all that, I'm afraid I can't agree with the author. I predict that in a shockingly short amount of time multi-terabyte storage solutions will appear commonplace. Heck, I've got several TB of storage at home right now. Admittedly I am a computer guy but still, I know people with a lot more.
I worked for a prof at grad school one summer in 1991 to earn some money. He had a Bernoulli Box and I thought wow this is awesome; a single disk, the size of a book, could hold in some cases over 100 MB.
That’s what I said about the 256K 3 1/4” disc in 89.
In 1989 a 60MB hard drive cost approximately $500 in 1989 dollars. I worked in a computer lab at a local college and the PCs that we maintained for the students used each had 10MB hard drives.
IBM Model 350 Hard Drive from 1956 being unloaded from an airliner with a forklift. It had a whopping 5MB of Data Storage! Who could ever need that much fast access storage space?
Probably means 10mb. I had a 20mb drive in my first computer that I bought myself in 92. I probably could have bought a car instead of a 500mb drive.
I didn’t realize what was going on with data cards until I bought a 30gb micro SD card for my new kindle fire. 1/4 the size of the old cards and dirt cheap.
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I saw a movie where one of those became self conscious and took over the worlds nuke systems... Colossus? Pretty scary stuff for a 10 yr old...
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