This USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage

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The way I see it, the more info it carries, the more cold sweat that will be spurting out of every orifice of your body when you realise you've gone and lost it. You can cram as much space as you want, but it still doesn't save it from human error. At least with hard drives they all boil down to either mechanical failure, or DOA, ie. out of control of humans to a certain degree.

I'd rather a fast 8GB or 16GB stick. Much more useful imo.
 
How many of us have put our USB thumb drives through the laundry? I've had 1 stick last 3-4 washing and drying cycles... :)

I use them to move data. I'd use the 2.5" drives to store/move lots of data. I use the 3.5" for major storage / backup.


In the future.. I will hold, in my hand.... an 8TB thumb drive!
 
[citation][nom]Dragoza[/nom]2TB on a usb stick but, why ssd don't have that capacity. Both use Flash memory![/citation]
Probably some new stuff they have been working on, SSD are probably going to be getting much bigger too.
 
Maybe in some distant future we would have half of that (1TB) on an USB stick... If at the right price I would get one of those.

Perfect size for movies while on a trip or vacation.
Or to keep kids occupied watching some kids shows/movies during long drives.
 
I have to agree, this article is utter nonsense....Pure Hype.
Showing us a 16G device that "may" scale up to 2TB is pure bait and switch selling technique to get investors or media attention.
 
Weasel words "up to 2tb" and they are held up by USB3? This stinks of total BS.
 
[citation][nom]hoofhearted[/nom]THat's alot of pron in your pocket[/citation]

Indeed. Is that a USB stick in your pocket, or have you been downloading pron again?
 
2 TB flash is simply not possible. Highest density:size ratio NAND on the market is IM Flash 8 GB 20 nm part, at 118 mm^2. For 2 TB, you would need 470 cm^2 planar real estate. This thing is probably 16 cm^2, maybe dual stacked - 14 times too small.

To get to 2 TB from the currently-assumed max of 256 GB in this format, we need 8x increase in density. That means 3 generations of transistor-doubling. As NAND is following an accelerated Moore's Law, we can expect 2 TB in 4.5 years.

Now, if 3D NAND becomes a product, things might change drastically, although 3D stacking is probably what will be required to maintain Moore's Law, otherwise we will need 7 nm flash cells, or smaller.
 
[citation][nom]mrmoo500[/nom]Makes you wonder why ssd's and HDD's have such low storage capacities.[/citation]

2 TB flash is simply not possible today. Highest density:size ratio NAND on the market is IM Flash 8 GB 20 nm part, at 118 mm^2. For 2 TB, you would need 470 cm^2 planar real estate. This thing is probably 16 cm^2, maybe dual stacked - 14 times too small.

To get to 2 TB from the currently-assumed max of 256 GB in this format, we need 8x increase in density. That means 3 generations of transistor-doubling. As NAND is following an accelerated Moore's Law, we can expect 2 TB in 4.5 years.

Now, if 3D NAND becomes a product, things might change drastically, although 3D stacking is probably what will be required to maintain Moore's Law, otherwise we will need 7 nm flash cells, or smaller.
 
If you look at it volumetrically, there are 32 GB micro SDHC cards on the market that are 15x11x1mm (165 mm^3). For 2TB you would need around 11k mm^3. This is 1x2x5.5 cm which would not be a very large USB key. 64 micro SDHC cards would cost around $3k so even if you could make it would there even be a market for a multi-thousand dollar 2TB USB key?
 
this is vapour ware, the usb 3 spec supports up to 2Tb (as dose usb 2), a 2Tb usb flash drive with current technology, 42/32nm process size, would still be as big as the moon.

maybe next generation flash will be closer to the capacity, but that will be in like 10 years time, they will be made out of fairy dust, and delivered by flying pigs.

 
all hype. "It could be 2Tb." Thats like me looking at my old Voodoo 2 and saying one day something like this will run crysis. Sure we'll get there eventually but I don't think its going to be a commercial product for some time.
 
I am thinking that even if they have a 2 tb drive, the reason they are waiting for usb 3 is the transfer rates.
 
In fact, this is already available.

We will not release it to the USA market until we can lock down distribution channels.

Much like the Ipod, the Iphone, and the SSD, these things are available in Taiwan and Japan years before the USA even knows about it.

 
[citation][nom]cjmcgee[/nom]If you look at it volumetrically, there are 32 GB micro SDHC cards on the market that are 15x11x1mm (165 mm^3). For 2TB you would need around 11k mm^3. This is 1x2x5.5 cm which would not be a very large USB key. 64 micro SDHC cards would cost around $3k so even if you could make it would there even be a market for a multi-thousand dollar 2TB USB key?[/citation]

True, but if you look at it Quantum-mechanically, two photons can occupy the same space at the same time, but I guess it's all relative.

(Relative to whether you know what you are talking about or if you are just full of BS)
 
LZMA (Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm) disc image and squashfs, since Winders vista and Winblows 7 now support live disc images and squashfs, getting 1 terabyte onto a flash drive is not a problem.
 
yeah total bs... and the reason A SATA SSD drive is more complex, comes down to both write and read access speeds and technologies.... a flash drie has great access speed, but relatively poor write speeds.
 
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