Kingston's thumb drive is tiny Tardis You really won't want to lose Kingston's Data Traveller 300 256GB thumb drive, the highest-capacity thumb drive available. There could be a near-universe of files, pictures and music inside and yet it can be as easily mislaid as any 2-gig thumb drive. Data Traveller 300 against Tardis background This tiny Tardis holds as …
So 256GB. Assume they're using the 1GB=1000MB method of capacity calculation that's 256000MB. (256000/10)/(60*60)=7.11 hours. So it'll take 7.11 hours to transfer that 256GB assuming it's continuously writing at at the maximum possible speed. Which of course it won't be because of the overhead of all the handshaking stuff that comes with copying each individual file.
So the Tardis analogy is very apt. The product will be of most interest to Timelords since they can skip over the tediously long period of time it takes to fill the drive up or retrieve it's contents.
Since fister will use any attached USB stick as ReadyBoost (if it's fast enough - and you can get that from the performance figures), presumably "comes with ReadyBoost" actually means "comes with extra words printed on the box".
Also, since ReadyBoost supports a maximum of 4Gb, we're beyond sledgehammer territory here and off into the lala land of using piledrivers to crack nuts.
I've never managed to kill a memory stick, through multiple washes, crunches, bangs, drops, you name it.
I didn't even manage to murder my Sansa clip when it got dropped in the driveway in the winter for two weeks - stuck in the snow, with my car driving over it every day. My mom found it after a while, soaked with water... I let it dry out, and it works fine to this day.
8GB Sticks for £8 each? That was definitely a bargain, as the cheapest Tesco offer today is just under £15.
eBuyer are currently cheaper, from around £11.50 for 8GB.
8GB and 16GB sizes appear to be the "sweet spot" for cost-effective flash memory at present. The cost jumps right up as you move up to 32GB and beyond.
The fastest Kingston USB stick writes at 20Mb/s (DataTraveler BlackBox). I would have thought that with better technology comes better performance. Anybody out there understand the concept of parallel access? Can't anybody come up with a better flash chip interface controller??
I did the same math as Bug, and this product looks to be useless for mass storage. I'll go with USB hard drives instead.
Yes, they were originally £14.99 but marked down to £8.99 -- just checked. My local Tesco still has 'em and I recall thinking "they're prolly wrongly priced". But hey, at the checkout I asked and sure enough -- £8.99. In lovely lurid see-thru colours too.
I can almost hear the stampede now ...
It would take forever to fill up that thumb drive. Even worse some devices that will take thumb drives index the whole file system before returning to root menu and playing the first mp3. I'd avoid using a thumb drive this big with my truck's stereo as it is afflicted with that problem.
Mine's the one with the sonic screwdriver and celery in the pocket.
I think there is a story here some where. A Reg Poll on the worse thing that has happened to a flash drive. Washing up is fine, but really what else has happened to your flash drive: i.e. How deep was that mud hole, what body cavity did you dig that flash drive out of and the burning question that I have is; can you use a flash drive as a marital aid and save my love life. Please post pictures.
KC
My no name cheepo 16GB stick bought at a stall in Ashton market spent well over 3 hours in the urinal in the Turks Head and after fishing the damned thing out and wiping it with my hanky, it worked straight away when I returned to work and plugged it in and continued my "anonymous surfing" session...
As it generally hails price cuts on the capacities way below it. Nice to see the high end continuing to stamp along.. it was only a few months ago that 128gb drives came out.
I remember very clearly, 6 years ago, seeing the latest flash stick online for over a thousand bucks. The capacity? 4 GB.
If that rate of progress remains steady...
Mines the one from 2015 with the 16TB drive in the pocket. That's enough to back up the entire contents of my brain, assuming the cyborg hardware manufacturers get their finger out and come up with an interface by then.
My old 256Mb stick were dropped from 'airplane over t'Himalayas, fell into t'snow, were eaten by t'Yeti and shat out two weeks later, fell down t'mountain in avalanche, landed in t'middle o' road, were run over by a Tibetan truck and t'pieces were tarmacced over by a Chinese road team.
After that I dug it oop wi' jackhammer, stuck it back t'gether with cold porridge and grit and my S Club 7 collection were still there.
Memory sticks these days? Don't know they're born......
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