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World's first 256GB USB Flash Drive

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I'm finding conflicting reports on price various places online. ($800/$900) But at only 200mb/s transfer speed this isn't useful to me, especially not at that cost. It's certainly no plug-in SSD, which is what I was hoping for when I read the headline.

You were hoping for USB to magically be something that its not?

Upvoted for researching the cost and posting that information here.

Note a slight error the transfer rate is 20mb/s not 200mb/s.

Slight?

It's actually 20MB/s not mb/s

There's no way I'd keep that much data on something that easy to lose / have stolen.

A few HD movies would fit well on it. It doesn't have to be important data, just big data. To the people of 10 years ago, a 16GB flash drive would seem similarly ridiculous, but we've found uses for them.

Huh? I'm waiting until I can replace the 500GB 2.5" external drive I carry around with me with a 512MB thumb drive. Then I don't have to worry about it getting banged up in transport.

Things like this thumbdrive are all about small size for ease of transport and usage (even a 2.5" external drive is awkward to hook up and use when you're in an airport/on a place/on a bus/etc). You would obviously want to use some sort of drive encryption (TrueCrypt/PGP/etc) and do regular backups if the data was important enough to not want to lose.

As far as what you would use it for? my music collection: ~89GB my photos: ~35GB (this only starts in 2005, I haven't scanned in older photos) $HOME backup: ~20GB (which includes some photos not counted above) custom bootable ubuntu 'live' partition: ~5GB cpan offline mirror: ~1.7GB

The list of things goes on... This is not even including ripping some movies to it for watching 'on the go'.

[EDIT]: That said, the prices will have to come down. Currently, the 128GB thumbdrives on NewEgg are in the ~$350 price range which is too expensive for my tastes... (even the 64GB thumbdrives are in the $120-$150 price range)

A year's worth of xvid movies on something the size of a keychain.

This flash drive is all about the bragging rights. Until they come out with a 512 GB one.

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