Flash Drives Surpasses Blu-ray Capacity

[Nipun Mohta]

Kingston is shipping its all-new USB flash drive DataTraveler 150 in 64GB and 32GB capacities. The massive boost in the USB flash drive under DataTraveler series allows more storage for digital files.

Do you recollect the time when we had 20GB hard disks? The DT150 64GB surpasses the storage capacity of Blu-ray Disc as well. The DT150 is compatible with Windows Vista (no support for Windows ReadyBoost yet), Windows XP, Windows 2000 (SP4), Mac OS X 1.3 or higher, and Linux with Kernel 2.6 and above.

As per recent user reports, the DT150 offers speeds anywhere between 28MB-30MB seconds read speed while the write speed on the NAND was reported to be low by a user. Check more user reviews from New Egg here.

The DT150 64GB is priced at $117 (Rs. 8,850 approx) and 32GB is priced at $116 (Rs. 5,800) with a five-year warranty on both capacities.

Looks perfect for media professionals to carry their data. However, the hefty price tag might make Indian audience think twice. 'Wait and watch' would be the strategy as prices of Flash memory have come down in the last couple of months.

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[Groovedude]

damn, they will be bigger then my poor lil hard disks soon :p... very handy tools i think.

[Ji@nBing]

LOL @ the 64GB one being only $1 more than the 32GB.

[ahfunaki]

There are already numerous 64gb/32gb flash drives out...

Not sure if this is news?

[+Mystic MVC]

LOL @ the 64GB one being only $1 more than the 32GB.

After looking at the Newegg link the 32GB is only $69.

Each year I seemed to upgrade my flash drive. A couple of years ago I started out with a 256mb then moved to a 2GB and now at least a 16GB for Christmas.

[Nipun Mohta]

LOL @ the 64GB one being only $1 more than the 32GB.

It might be 177$ (64 GB). There might have been a mistake at the source.

[soldier1st]

After looking at the Newegg link the 32GB is only $69.

Each year I seemed to upgrade my flash drive. A couple of years ago I started out with a 256mb then moved to a 2GB and now at least a 16GB for Christmas.

the larger drives are now way cheaper than when the smaller ones costed more.

[AimLXJ]

Imagine they had HD movies on flash drives instead on blu-ray....... :happy:

[Pupik]

Man, I'd hate to fill one in one hit. Will just take too much time.

[sundayx Veteran]

Man, I'd hate to fill one in one hit. Will just take too much time.

My thoughts as well. Now if these were USB 3.0 the that would be a totally different story. Can't wait until 2010!

[Smigit]

My thoughts as well. Now if these were USB 3.0 the that would be a totally different story. Can't wait until 2010!

Yeah these would be a good candidate for an e-sata port as per that other device listed this week.

[P!P]

I don't like what the news is here... 64GB drives have been out for a while now. Blu-Ray can actually can go up to 100GB or more with additional layers. The cost difference is massive...

[aussiefloyd_fan]

LOL @ the 64GB one being only $1 more than the 32GB.

damn newegg trying to up sell us :lol

[MrChainsaw]

Once the 200GB Blu-ray Disks come out, it wouldn't be so big anymore.

[houlty]

Imagine they had HD movies on flash drives instead on blu-ray....... :happy:

not sure who would buy a movie for $117??? certainly not me.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Once the 200GB Blu-ray Disks come out, it wouldn't be so big anymore.

Once the 256GB flash drives come out, it wouldn't be so big anymore.

[Pupik]

^ Once the one terabytes hard disk drives prices will drop even more, who will even care?

[Arkaic]

/begin sarcasm

Oh hell, all of you will be shocked when my company releases its petabyte floppy disk media :blink: :laugh:

/end sarcasm

[Lechio]

Can't wait till the solid state drives become of common use, with better writing speeds. That will be a true revolution...

[Rigby]

I really don't see the connection with Blu-Ray. The price difference is huge.

[Nicholas-c Veteran]

When i first got my 512mb memory stick that was the best around :p this is mad size all in your pocket.

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

Once the 200GB Blu-ray Disks come out, it wouldn't be so big anymore.

Maybe we should all wait 4-5 years on Sony to release a 10 TB bluray or sandisk to release a 300 TB flash memory?

Yeah technology changes

[grik]

Great news i supose,

correct me if im wrong, arent these flash drives great if in near future they get same or better speed than normal HD? I mean, they are silent, and not even close to be as sensitive and easy losing data as HD. Right? The lifetime of one of those babys i read before its around 100 years, hd?s are commonly broken and lost data problems. Another subject, heat? i supose they dont heat as must as the hd?s or even not as close cause they dont have any phisical movement inside witch means no heat. many questions im sorry.

If they get the speed in near future of normal hard drives or better of course my next PC will use one of these babies, like an great performance SSD, im sold. Then USB 3.0 in 2010 and this will be a big jump, maybe in the videoclub you will get your films in a pen quickly transfered in the act of pickuing the movie. It will create new habits unseen as today.

[+Warwagon MVC]

No support for readyboost yet.

So they are large has hell but slow as ****!

To support readybost I thought the device had to just have a certain meg per second rate.

[pyehac]

And yet, with all of that capacity, you'll still lose the cap.