Kingston 256GB Thumb Drive

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Kingston 256GB Thumb Drive
By John Herrman, 9:00 AM on Mon Jul 20 2009

" Here's your cold, bitter, daily dose of hardware obsolescence: Just a month after passing the already-ridiculous 128GB barrier, Kingston has released the 256GB DataTraveler 300. It isn't available in the US, but if/when it is, it'll run around $900. "

:source: Source: http://gizmodo.com/5318471/the-inevi...sy-of-kingston

I wouldn't trust that thing. 256gb on a stick can't be reliable. :unsure:

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Originally Posted by Zip

I wouldn't trust that thing. 256gb on a stick can't be reliable. :unsure:

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On was basis do you make that judgment? :huh:

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Originally Posted by Skiz

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Originally Posted by Zip

I wouldn't trust that thing. 256gb on a stick can't be reliable. :unsure:

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On was basis do you make that judgment? :huh:

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Bad experience with big storage devices in an 'early stage' I guess.

Thats not really a valid reason though man. Personally I think its great. Hopefully they will be affordable in the near future like :)

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Originally Posted by Darth Sushi

It isn't available in the US, but if/when it is, it'll run around $900. "

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This is a recession though...:mellow:

Can't wait for the price of these to come waaaaay down. I'm more comfortable when I get a thumb drive free with purchase from Newegg. Yeah, I know I am a cheeeeeeap bastard. :P

From what I understand, memory like this fails after data has been saved and deleted hundreds (or thousands) of times. Seems that a large capacity would last longer, because data could be stored on the drive instead of needing to be deleted and re-written due to lack of capacity.

I'd prob pay around $300 or so.

With $900, I can buy a laptop! :D

hopefully drives this big will come down in price in a reasonable time frame considering the way hard drive capacity has been expanding...but then again dvd-9's are still too expensive