New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage 212
First time accepted submitter Dr Max writes "During Display Taiwan, Transcend and Taiwan's ITRI displayed a finger-long USB stick that reportedly offers 2 TB of storage. That's no typo. It somehow holds up to 2 terabytes worth of information. So far neither company has released anything official in regards to specs or a simple introduction, nor does the high-capacity USB 3.0 stick appear on Display Taiwan's website. But as seen in the video below, the 'Thin Card' thumb drive is even smaller than a thumb, measuring slightly thicker than a penny. It offers a minimum of 16 GB and a maximum of 2 TB."
News is spam (maybe) (Score:5, Informative)
From one of the comments on the linked site:
On the video it says "Actually the one that we looked at on display was only 16GB but the technology behind that particular 16GB stick is capable of scaling to 2 Terabytes." In other words they'll have to wait years for smaller manufacturing processes to occur before a 2 TB drive is made.
I cannot watch the video to verify it.. but if true, then the news is as good as spam
Re:It'll store 2TB, however... (Score:5, Informative)
A rather crappy sales pitch, really (Score:5, Informative)
So really she was just selling what could happen, some day. She could have just as well promised 2pb or 2eb instead, and promised it inside a postage stamp.
So in summary:
However
Liars, damned liars and marketing folks... (Score:4, Informative)
There is no 2TB drive. This is a 16GB with an _interface_ that could support 2TB. But wit present FLASH chips that cannot be fit into the case shown. May take another 5 years or more. Incidentally, old USB2.0 can already interface 2TB.
So this is really a rather nomal-sized 16GB USB3.0 stick, or in other words nothing special a all.