Transcend Announces 128GB Flash Drives

[exfileme]

These USB sticks can store up to 128 GB of data

Transcend Announces 128GB Flash Drives : Read more

 

[ttg_Avenged]

Wow... nice lol. First!

 

[uglynerdman]

now if only we could replace hds with something the size of flash drives and graphics cards would go down in size all my miniitxdreams could come true.

 

[velosteraptor]

for $200 id rather buy a 2TB+ portable to lug around with me.

 

[thrasher32]

[citation][nom]velosteraptor[/nom]for $200 id rather buy a 2TB+ portable to lug around with me.[/citation]

Make sure that 2TB+ drive has some heavy-duty shock absorption. I've trashed a hard drive dropping it less than 1/4 inch.

 

[rangas]

[citation][nom]uglynerdman[/nom]now if only we could replace hds with something the size of flash drives and graphics cards would go down in size all my miniitxdreams could come true.[/citation]
ever heard of SSDs?

 

[master_chen]

I'd definitely buy this if the price was reasonable (100~110$ is the highest sum that I'll ever pay for any flash dongle, even if it's the top tier model). Transcend makes quite good flash dongles.
I have two of their dongles, 16GB and 32GB, and they serve me absolutely fine for more than 4 years now, without any problems at all.

 

[noblerabbit]

I still have my first Transend 16 MegaByte Flash drive, and it still works.

 

[noblerabbit]

[citation][nom]rangas[/nom]ever heard of SSDs?[/citation]

surprising as all heck, how even so called professional IT resellers still haven't adopted them, they think 128GB for $99 is too expensive, and not enough space. and then their head goes back into the sand.

 

[alidan]

and 3 above this,

128gb thumb drive 64$

 

[Guest]

Shutup and take my money!!!

 

[rohitbaran]

Speed? That's an important factor when buying a drive this huge.

 

[Deemo13]

That's more memory than in my Late 2007 MacBook lol. Not as much memory as my tower though.

 

[Guest]

i'd rather buy ssd, cheaper and faster

 

[master_chen]

I'd rather buy an SSD, cheaper and faster.

You're always walking around with SSD in the back pocket of your pants?

 

[marshal11]

[citation][nom]master_chen[/nom]You're always walking around with SSD in the back pocket of your pants?[/citation]

lol. well, you really could. SSDs are about the size of my wallet (much thinner of course, especially the 7MM SSDs) i would just get a thin 2.5in drive casing or something to make sure it doesn't get damaged, and it actually would just be like having another wallet in your pocket. i could deal with that.

 

[techcurious]

128GB drive using USB2.0? Gosh, I already get impatient with USB2.0 speeds using my 16GB drives (to be fair, they are limited to about 20MB/s, but 30MB/s is not much better)...
The USB3.0 version "transfer rates" are up to 80MB/s.. but I wonder what the write speed is..
As usual, Kevin doesn't provide much useful (or reliable) information. Must be nice getting paid just to copy/paste information into an article, without doing any research (in other words, real work).
From information I found about previously released 32GB versions of the Jetflash 760 (up to 70MB/s read and 35MB/s write), I expect this 128GB drive to offer about 40MB/s write speeds. Not that great at all!
I see Patriot (benchmarked reads 200MB/s, writes 120MB/s) and Corsair (advertised reads 220MB/s, writes 130MB/s) drives that cost a lot less (below $140) and perform several times faster!
I only once bought a Transcend drive (16GB) a few years ago, due to it's high advertised speeds. After benchmarking it, turned out it offered that speed (over 30MB/s reads) for about the the last 3GB only, but only offered less than 50% (about 15MB/s reads) advertised speeds for the rest of the drive capacity. After some research, I found that this is how it was designed, and so my drive was not defective. Needless to say I felt totally mislead and cheated and will probably never trust Transcend again.

 

[Guest]

I will be picking a couple of these up in 2 or 3 years for 9.99 on sale at my local computer store

 

[master_chen]

Looks like we had a "thumbs down"-bot rampaging here, can someone ask moderator to check on that and fix everyone's thumbs?