BitMicro Takes Wraps Off 832 GB Flash Drive

Lucas123 writes "BitMicro has unveiled an 832GB NAND flash drive that will begin shipping later this year. The E-Disk Altima drive is expected to have sustained read rates of up to 100MB/sec and up to 20,000 I/O operations per second. The device features a SATA 3.0 G/bps interface. No pricing as of yet."

Re:SLASHDOT SUX0RZ

[Anonymous Coward]

quit posting pictures of your face!

hmm.

[apodyopsis]

no idea of pricing yet, but several major limbs and a contract signed in your own bodily fluid was hinted at.

832GB SSD?! holy cow thats going to be dear.

Now tell me why anybody should want this outside of the media/video industry...

Re:cost estimate

[PrescriptionWarning]

the same could be said of a 800 GB hard drive years ago. i'll explain in mathematical terms: as time, thats our X axis, increases, the Y value decreases. If you guessed Y to be the cost, give yourself a chimichanga. If you guessed Y to be anything else including, but not limited to, goat milk, give yourself a wedgie.

Re:hmm.

[MyLongNickName]

Now tell me why anybody should want this outside of the media/video industry...

We've found Bill Gates' Slashdot user account.

Re:hmm.

[Anonymous Coward]

If your not gonna have the biggest E.penis it may as well be the fastest.

I want one

[jollyreaper]

I think I'm going to need a bigger keychain.

Re:832?

[MyLongNickName]

Well, that's an odd number

No. It is even.

Re:hmm.

[MBCook]

I would have thought he would have had a much lower UID.

Or did you lose your password a few times Bill?

the marketing dept has picked a name for it:

[circletimessquare]

The Porntropolis 832 (tm)

Re:nothing to see here...

[Not_Wiggins]

The sweet spot right now seems to be around 16 or 32 Mb. You can get an 16 Mb flash drive for about $150, but 32 Mb is more than twice the price.

Can't... resist...

1999 called... they want their flash pricing back. ;)

Or, if you'd like, I'd be willing to sell you some 32Mb flash cards for, shall we say, $100 a piece? ;)

(Sorry.)

Re:Sorry

[AvitarX]

Yes

Re:nothing to see here...

[Slashcrap]

no evidence that they actually have working hardware.

This is a good point and you are right to be cautious. Obviously there will be massive technological challenges to overcome in order to move past the current state of the art, which is loads of flash connected to an SATA interface, to this new paradigm of having shitloads of flash connected to an SATA interface.

I'm not an expert, but I'm thinking perhaps they can start by adding more flash?

Re:cost estimate

[Anonymous Coward]

zOMG that means cars should be like $5.99 now since they were hella expensive back in the day, right?

lrn2economics

Re:cost estimate

[seanadams.com]

I am confused. Surely the global population of pirates factors into the equation somehow?

Re:hmm.

[Anonymous Coward]

"If your not gonna have the biggest E.penis it may as well be the fastest"

Perhaps you are unaware that "fastest" in this context is generally not considered a good thing?

Re:cost estimate

[PrescriptionWarning]

the curve of time to car value is far different from the curve of technology value over time. For example, a car is considered an antique after a certain period of time, in which its value goes up (if properly maintained and restored)!

try selling a nintendo or an old watch calculator made in the 80s in 10 years, I doubt you'll get more than a 5-10 bucks. The point is, the car analogy has yet again made someone look like an idiot :P

Re:Sorry

[modecx]

If I can't buy it yet, then it doesn't exist yet.

F-22 Raptor: so expensive that it's practically invisible!

Preinstalled?

[cashman73]

Does it come with a free copy of Duke Nukem Forever preinstalled?

Re:832?

[easyTree]

what is a millibyte?

It's what you'll be getting from my pet mPede shortly =)

Re:Mortgage?

[maxwell demon]

Well, maybe I'm not up to date, but I always thought first-borns run on food, just like anyone else.

USB power, that's not the question.

[Tatarize]

But, can it blend?

Re:Sweet

[DigitAl56K]

What has this got to do with Apple?

Re:Sorry

[UbuntuDupe]

You can't buy a house with your credit and income. Do no houses exist?

Re:832?

[SeaFox]

Perhaps it's actually 16 * 64 and three are specifically for redundancy and wear leveling?

Perhaps they are giving the formatted capacity.

I know. I don't believe it either.

Re:Mortgage?

[Pinchiukas]

I can only imagine the reactions of people who will have to come up with that in a few months when they heard it from the management.

Re:Mortgage?

[Linker3000]

Poors Law?

Re:USB power, that's not the question.

[lostguru]

what kind of sick person would blend their first born, freak