Source Seriously, this is innovative. I can't wait for them to produce these...though you know the sellers are gonna jack the hell out of the price. In any case, I can only wonder what this will mean for desk top and laptop computers. I mean if they can fit a terabyte in a thumb drive with this technology, think of how much they can fit into a normal comp. Think of how much music that would hold....how many games you could fit.....the possibilities are almost literally endless.

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That is pretty incredible. I am still using my 1gb drive I am pretty excited to see some solid state storage drives. Those are supposed to be the new thing in the future. With portable drives that large, pretty soon you can just have baseline computers with networking, vga, etc. and people can insert their thumbdrives and boot up their respective OS with files, settings and all. You can take your computer almost anywhere. Im sure they already do that stuff in asia haha.

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Well I can see this in two ways, 1 a waste of money because there is no way you can max out a standard PC hard drive of that size, unless of course your Microsoft size. Of course, talk about misplacing that flash drive somwhere and can't find it for weeks and having your most important stuff on there. Of course I see a interesting thought, It will replace the 2.5" hard drives and make computers even smaller and all they would have to do is find a way to reduce the size of the motherboard to make it even smaller then it is now.

Of course, the worse part is these flash drives are going to be like $700-$1000 when they first come out and so anyone stupid enough to buy one are as stupid as buying the Iphone on ebay for $4000.

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You kidding? $700 to $1000 is dirt cheap for a 1-TB thumb drive. I'd say at least $10,000 for one drive. I mean, think about it. a 2-GB drive costs about... $60, now multiply that by 500.

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That isn't the point. The point is, its going to cost a ridiculous amount for something that is very unnecessary. I'm pretty sure that I would never need 1 TB of storage in my life.

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Correction, it is a solid state flash drive, so $10,000 does sound about right as 50-60GB of solid state is a few hundred dollar by itself. Either way, my point still stands that anyone stupid enough to buy it; although, solid state data storage is quite a new idea especially the fact you could pack more into into these devices.

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ahh next yhear there is nehelem and in 2 years dude its going to be crazy

This surprises me at first, but when I thinka bout it, its just the beginning

2 years petabyte harddrives and *BLEEP*

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It seems that now. some computers store up to 3TB accross a RAID.
But "solid state drives" have appeared. It seems that manufacturers have started to focus on the speed and reliability now that they have developped such large storage devices.

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Solid state drives have unbelievable performance.. just imagine a thumb drive outperforming a normal harddisk
possibilities are endless but if u are ready to spend. I would buy it if or when its under $1000. Its great to have a lot of storage.
My 500 GB is almost full, so I am pretty confident that i can fill up a 1000 GB as well

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