Kingston Unveils 1 TB Flash Drive

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Because there's simply no demand. There's no point manufacturing expensive cards that no one's gonna buy or even need for another 2-3 years at least.
I'd use it, how is it so expensive when it's made from sand in Chinese slave factories in Shenzhen? it costs $8 to make an iphone 5
 

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I'd use it, how is it so expensive when it's made from sand in Chinese slave factories in Shenzhen? it costs $8 to make an iphone 5
Wow, you should really read a bit more shouldn't you? It costs about $200 to produce an iPhone 5, not $8. And just because labour costs in China are cheap in what world does that automatically mean the actual product is cheap to produce? You've got the costs of designing such an awesome and incredible piece of tech (which requires a lot of research and development), building machines to manufacturing the parts, testing, advertising. It all adds up.

Also, I highly doubt you need 1TB of storage in such a small medium.
 

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This is the whole 32GB thing again. A few years ago, that much data was COSTLY. Now, they're only a few bucks. Wait about 2 years, and then you'll have a cheap way to stash your porn torrents Legal backups.
 

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1TB would be nice for some of the higher end graphics and video world if the speeds can keep up. Similarly if the speeds as what is mentioned there then it would be more than enough for me to wander round with a few virtual machines/bootable partitions and have my PC out and about as I wait for upload speeds to make it happen there.

Anyway converting them out of cretin measurements and lining it up against a random USB drive I slapped my hand on I do not think it will be a "slot in the back of a laptop* to fire up [insert fixing tool]" type affair.

*if I am carrying a USB extension I might as well not have bothered.
 

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Wow, you should really read a bit more shouldn't you? It costs about $200 to produce an iPhone 5, not $8. And just because labour costs in China are cheap in what world does that automatically mean the actual product is cheap to produce? You've got the costs of designing such an awesome and incredible piece of tech (which requires a lot of research and development), building machines to manufacturing the parts, testing, advertising. It all adds up.

Also, I highly doubt you need 1TB of storage in such a small medium.
sorry $8 is the total labor cost and not parts and materials, those I think are (over)estimated at between 167-207 usd, even with that they sell for 5x the cost
To produce, and not to mention pay no taxes and get government subsidies corporate welfare to boot.
 

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how do you define a flash disk? Isn't it the one that stores data on flash memory?
Wikipedia: Flash-disk took me to Solid-state drive. In other words, since the coming of ultrabooks with SSD, it seems there is no difference between an external hard disk and a flash disk.

This means, this is actually a smaller sized internal hard disk. Wow we have reached to such a level that I believe the future tablets may store up to 256GB with the correct architecture.

correct me if I am wrong in any of this.
 

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yea what ever happened to multiple tb sd and micro sd cards talked about at ces like 2 or 3 years ago?
can you say planned obsolescence

probably made in some foxconn shithole in shenzen for 3 cents ,and they will try to sell for 900 gazzillion% markup

why not just sell it for $5 ,and sell millions ,instead of selling like 1000 for 5000
we know they cost fuckall to produce
at the markup rate its still more profitable to sell more for less

Because the designing process costs lots of money, and why sell for that little when you can still make a profit selling at a higher price? If you've got a pseudo monopoly on a product, like iphone 5, you can sell it at whatever you want and people will still pay for it.

see the first post about people throwing money at their screens. I'm sure there are people who actually do such things. lol
 

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Kingston_HyperX_Predator_1TB_thumb.jpg

Do you have an aching need to take tons of pornographic pirated totally legitimate content wherever you go? Are conventional flash drives just not cutting it for you? Can you sit through another rhetorical question?

Well, then, don't worry, because it looks like Kingston's got you more than covered.
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"Flash... DRIVE! It'll store almost everything!"

Now, there's no word on pricing yet. They'll be offering a tinier variant first (and by "tiny", I mean 512 gb), which will go for $1337 (Get it?) upon release. So yeah, don't expect this to come cheap. And while you may be saying, "That tera-bites," keep in mind that this isn't really intended for the consumer market. This is probably aimed more at business professionals.

Still, it's a pretty impressive achievement, and seeing how quickly technology marches on, we may only be years away from a more consumer friendly model. This certainly won't be a flash drive in the pan.

Unlike its namesake, let's all hope the Predator isn't invisible in the marketplace.

No fuck that Gahars, this thing tera-bytes ! (you needed to put the y there my friend).

I actually can't think of a reason why I'd get this... my WiiU?
 

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This made me go count all the flash drives I have in a box next to my computer.

I have about 60. Not a one of them is over 8g. I don't know why I have so many, probably from various sales and family who bought them for something and couldn't remember why, so I got them.
 

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