Kingston Introduces 1TB Flash Drive 170
Deathspawner writes "If there's one thing that each CES can bring, it's a handful or products that manage to drop jaws everywhere. Kingston's latest flash drive series, DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0, manages to be one of those. It's aimed at folks who actually need mass storage on the go at speeds that mechanical hard drives cannot offer. Available soon will be a 512GB model, followed by the 1TB later this quarter. The drive features read speeds of 240MB/s and write speeds of 160MB/s — not quite desktop SSD speeds, but much faster than a mechanical hard drive, and with vastly reduced latencies due to it being flash storage. Not surprisingly, pricing has not yet been discussed."
It that a huge (Score:4, Funny)
porn collection in your pocket or ...
Kingston's own site (Score:2)
http://www.kingston.com/us/usb/personal_business#DTHXP30 [kingston.com]
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Re:It that a huge (Score:2)
porn collection in your pocket or ...
Yeah, and? The date of mine is A YEAR AGO.
I wonder what the size of that blue pill was!
prices (Score:4, Informative)
Somewhere I saw ~900 Eur for the 512GB model, which is nearly USD$1200
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You mean $800.
Remember, Europe gets fucked pretty badly when it comes to prices of electronic goods.
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Well he's saying that a USD$800 gadget in the USA goes for EUR800 across the pond, despite the exchange rate.
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Did you know in Belgium you need a license to golf? I shit you not.
Re:prices (Score:4, Informative)
Woosh! What he meant was that even if it was 900 EUR which would be more than 900 USD, the price in EUR is usually higher than the price in USD. Same goes for AUD. Games are twice as more expensive in Australia because even if the AUD has caught up with the USD, the numbers in the prices haven't changed so what's 30 USD costs 60 AUD even if AUD > USD.
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nuts posted this in the wrong place, and once more from the top:
Do they? I think you may be thinking of Australia there...
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You mean $800. Remember, Europe gets fucked pretty badly when it comes to prices of electronic goods.
One thing to remember is that usually you're comparing $800+VAT to 900€ with VAT-included, where the VAT can be as high as 19.6%. I'm not saying this explains it all, far from it, but it's a factor.
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19.6 is the current maximum VAT rate in France (which is going to increase soon). In any case it's not the highest VAT rate in Europe, which is 25% (Denmark).
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Do they? I think you may be thinking of Australia there...
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Do they? I think you may be thinking of Australia there...
The Norse is strong with this one.
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Here's a decent 480GB SSD: http://www.ebuyer.com/284750-ocz-480gb-agilitry-3-ssd-agt3-25sat3-480g [ebuyer.com]
It now costs 347.64 pounds ($557.55) but I recently paid 290 pounds ($465) for it! So you can get really decent-sized quality SSDs if you shop around.
Buzzword Bingo? (Score:5, Funny)
DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0
I laughed for about half a minute at that name. Next year: Mega Terminator X-treme 5x5!!!
Chris Hansen eat your heart out (Score:5, Funny)
Now everyone wants to catch a Predator.
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I'll glady trade you the predator on my back for... a library of congress?
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Why don`t you take a seat over there. Did you know that flash drive was under 16GiB?
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DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0
I laughed for about half a minute at that name. Next year: Mega Terminator X-treme 5x5!!!
Soon followed by the Gargantutron Ultra eXtreme Super Hyperwossname.
Long ago, far away, names were already a complete mockery of the marketing department clowns. They have transcended mere idiocy, surpassed art-form and gone right down the Ultra eXtreme loo.
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Reminds me of this standup sketch [youtube.com]...
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They're saving Y-8 for croquet.
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Just call the next one "Cloud". I store everything in the Cloud.
Cloud's too slow.
Let me know when your local telco upgrades that copper so you can upload data at 160MB/s and also drops usage caps.
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Just call the next one "Cloud". I store everything in the Cloud.
Cloud's too slow.
Let me know when your local telco upgrades that copper so you can upload data at 160MB/s and also drops usage caps.
~Whoooosh!~
Final Fantasy VII (Score:2)
and the all important $$$ factor (Score:5, Informative)
If you're interested in snagging one of the top two units, be advised that the price of the 512GB edition is a staggering $1,750.00 -- so you'd better get working on impressing that MLB scout next time they're passing by.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/kingston-1tb-flash-drive/ [engadget.com]
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Re:and the all important $$$ factor (Score:5, Insightful)
There would be no market. I'm not sure if you're implying this.
According to Hollywood accounting rules, no movies ever make a profit .... so no movies for movie execs to carry around!
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Re:and the all important $$$ factor (Score:5, Insightful)
According to Engadget it is not something we are all going to bring to work day to day just yet
If you're interested in snagging one of the top two units, be advised that the price of the 512GB edition is a staggering $1,750.00 -- so you'd better get working on impressing that MLB scout next time they're passing by.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/kingston-1tb-flash-drive/ [engadget.com]
And in three years they'll be selling them at the office supply store for $30.
Ain't the relentless march of tenchological innovation wunnerful?
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Around 1990, I paid $400 for a 40MB MFM drive.
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I remember upgrading my PC back around 94.
$250 to move from a 33MHz processor to 66MHz.
$250 to double the RAM to 8MB.
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In '92 we paid $3000 for 32MB RAM in a new departmental Unix server.
OT: Your name (Score:2)
It's a good thing you're bearded. "Beardo the Clean Shaven" just doesn't have the same ring to it!!!
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I paid $400 for my first 1G HD and also paid $400 for my first 500G HD.
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Around 1990, I paid $400 for a 40MB MFM drive.
Dude! By 1990 everyone was moving to RLL!
Ah, and we once had a stack of old Byte magazines on a shelf in the corner, I leafed through a few for a good laugh. 1980 a 5 MB drive cost $2500, a 10 MB drive cost about $4000.
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If the technology came down in price (say to $100-$200), where this would shine would be a possible successor to tape drives. Since Flash drives can be made in almost any shape, creating a form factor that is made to be used in a robot silo with highly dense packing of the drives would be easily doable. Combine that with the second that the media is mounted, I/O can start happening (unlike tapes which require the drive to physically grab the media and swish it past the heads.) Shoe-shining would be a thi
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Robot silo? Just switch them.
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Why wouldnt you just get an SSD thats nearly the same size, and about 3 times faster? There are USB-to-SATA docks that are tiny and only about $20.
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Convenience. Who wants to drag around all that kit?
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The SSD requires power. You can't just plug it into an OTG cable and turn your Android phone into the ultimate Archos replacement.
Plus "nearly the same size" just isn't good enough if you actually care about capacity. It's kind of like being almost pregnant. Your device is either big enough or not. "There is no try".
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Wow, that makes the $1300 Apple charges to upgrade from 128GB to 768GB SSD on their Macbook Pro seem reasonable...
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The Swiss Army knife with a 1TB drive available last year goes for $3000.
I find the older ones amusing. What good is this old memory stick on a knife good for? At least a knife is timeless.
1TB was available before this (Score:4, Informative)
Re:1TB was available before this (Score:4, Informative)
Came here to remind of that. Here's a hands-on [engadget.com].
An innocent question, please be gentle... (Score:3)
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Erase blocks (Score:2)
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We're talking about NAND flash devices here. A block in any flash device is the minimum unit of erase bytes/words. Typically, the higher the density, the larger the blocks - so that there ain't too much of address decoding logic.
When a block is erased, all that is needed is that the pages within that block that need writing need to be programmed (i.e. 0xffffs changed to combinations of 0s and 1s.) Once all pages within a block are written, the block cannot be updated without being erased again.
Howeve
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Typically, the higher the density, the larger the blocks - so that there ain't too much of address decoding logic.
Which means these blocks end up much larger than the clusters used by a typical file system. If a file system is fragmented, then a file will be spread across multiple blocks, and multiple files will be within each block. And if a file spread across multiple blocks that themselves contain other files is changed, all these blocks will need to be erased and reprogrammed. (From the point of view of the flash device, it's as if the file system is performing an extreme form of tail merging [wikipedia.org].) So yes, it helps if
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Wrong question and depends on your usage pattern. A 1TB HDD is almost certainly going to have hardware improvements and perform better than your 100GB, fragmented or not.
The drive in TFA is a SSD, not a HDD, though and never requires defragmentation because it isn't slowed down by fragmentation.
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Actually, the drive is Flash USB, not a (SATA) SSD. But in any case, fragmentation can definitely slow down flash drives - and can be even worse than an HDD on writes. Look it up...
Re:An innocent question, please be gentle... (Score:5, Informative)
SSDs might not, but the filesystem does.
You don't need to defrag a filesystem on an SSD, because the purpose of defragging is to remove the need for random seeks, which are slow on a spinning magnetic disk.
Since the penalty for an extra random read on even a "slow" SSD is around 0.1ms (with fast drives around 0.03ms), even a horribly fragmented file wouldn't make much difference compared to "read X consecutive blocks". For example, if every block required a separate "read" command because the file was completely fragmented, it would take nearly 100 blocks before you'd hit the penalty for a single extra seek on a mechanical hard drive.
And, nearly all that penalty is for the OS and hardware, because every read on an SSD is really random with respect to where the data really resides (because of the wear-leveling algorithms). So, even if you read 20 consecutive disk blocks, you might be reading from 20 different areas in the flash memory.
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Not always, AFAIK the filesystem will fill up one block completely before moving onto the next one, regardless of where it is located. Wasted space from allocation block size ("cluster size") is only really an issue with lots of files which are smaller than the cluster size.
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There are two different kinds of fragmentation.
Internal fragmentation makes files bigger, but doesn't slow down the access. External fragmentation doesn't increase the files size, but slows down the access. The OS is able to trade one by the other by changing the block size. The biggest this size, the more internal fragmentation and less external fragmentation you'll have.
On memories with fast random access you can use very small block sizes, and thus avoid losing too much space.
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Fragmented files take more space on the disk than contiguous ones and require more time to manage them.
Only a tiny amount more space (in the allocation table) is used, even for the most fragmented of files. The actual data doesn't take any more space regardless of fragmentation.
As for speed, again it is insignificant compared to disk access and data read times (even on SSDs). Even at 600MB/sec (pretty much the limit of SSDs today), a 4KB read takes about as long as executing 50 CPU instructions at 3GHz. If the allocation table is cached in RAM (which it very likely will be), then even requiring a lookup a
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I've got bad news for you. Even if your SSD was 100% defragmented it would still be physically fragmented due to the internal wearleveling that SSDs use. They intentionally scatter storage around the drive in order to even out the amount of cell usage to prolong life.
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No, it doesnt. Fragmentation is only an issue when seek times are an issue. The filesystem really doesnt care how your data is split up.
Regardless, Microsoft, as well as basically every SSD vendor, highly recommends that you do NOT defragment your SSD. You're welcome to argue with them if you like.
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Fragmentation in SSD does affect the system performance. It is just that the effects are much smaler than on disk, so everybody ignores it.
Except for the in die cache, all the levels of the memory hierarchy of a modern computer are affected by fragmentation. But only disks are completely ruinned by it.
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Umm, what? Is there another (less common) usage of that TLA?
The most common usage of NFS (citation not provided!) is Network File System, originally developed by Sun. Maybe you mean a specific IMPLEMENTATION of that from MS?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System [wikipedia.org]
He just lost a T and didn't mean NFS (Score:3)
Seems it was only a few years ago... (Score:5, Insightful)
8GB drives were something to salivate over, because you could store an entire DVD on it.
Now these things are so commonplace I have them littering my desk, giveaways from tradeshows, vendors, etc. You can get them in amusing shapes of Taz, Hello Kitty or Dora the Explorer at the office store.
Finally dipping my toe in the water with an SSD for the desktop machine. It's been running for years on a pair of Seagate 160GB SATA I drives, which are near capacity. I thought about buying a couple of 1.5 TB drives, but reviews are very dismal on mechanical storage drives now. Seems a lot of old manufacturers are being bought up by Seagate and Seagate and Western Digital will soon be the only players left in a "buggy whip" market. Hard to beat the GB/$ deal with hard drives, but with 1 year warranties and a lot of DOA deliveries, plus quite a lot of drives which seem to die within the first year, I'm not super inclined to put my valuable files on them.
Here's hoping by the end of the 2013 we have some good prices on high capacity SSDs and In can move my photos, videos and miscellaneous crap onto new drives.
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Hard to beat the GB/$ deal with hard drives, but with 1 year warranties and a lot of DOA deliveries, plus quite a lot of drives which seem to die within the first year, I'm not super inclined to put my valuable files on them.
IMHO, the current way to go is big old spinning disks configured as RAID on a NAS for bulk storage, and SSD for PC/Laptop/etc drives. Your valuable files are safe enough and you get great OS performance without breaking the bank on big SSDs...
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I think the only people to care enough to write reviews on mechanical drives these days are those with a bad story to tell because there's absolutely nothing exciting to say. Nobody cares about performance anymore because SSDs has spanked them every which way but they're cheap, big and they work, sure you could get a lemon but I'd take backups of that SSD too. I think your chances of a broken drive was much higher back when they had new tech and doubled in capacity every two years.
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I think the only people to care enough to write reviews on mechanical drives these days are those with a bad story to tell because there's absolutely nothing exciting to say. Nobody cares about performance anymore because SSDs has spanked them every which way but they're cheap, big and they work, sure you could get a lemon but I'd take backups of that SSD too. I think your chances of a broken drive was much higher back when they had new tech and doubled in capacity every two years.
Approximately 50% of respondents mentioned the drives worked and the were mostly happy, aside from quite a lot of drive noise. ~25% remarked their drives worked for a while. About 15% mentioned at least 1 DOA arriving in their order, whether it was the only one or one or two out of a few or several.
Not quite the expceptions. I've dealt with RMAs before, but the concept of spending a day moving frome one drive to anther and then having it die isn't very attractive. A RAID is the only way I'll go with har
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I've got spinny-disks in all of my machines at home (for a total of...about 12 drives, at the moment spinning 24x7, not including game consoles). The drives get changed out every now and then, but not because they're broken -- instead, it's just because the old drives are small/slow and I've happened across a substantially larger/faster drive for little/no money.
I've been doing it this way for more than 20 years.
In my personal use, it has been over a decade since I had a hard drive die without an obvious e
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My father/dad/pa has a bunch of old USB flash drives, memory cards, etc. They ranged from 16 MB (MEGA Bytes) to 1 GB. I wonder what to do with all them. Can I RAID? Hehe.
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Oh, you can't use different sizes of each drive as a single drive? Darn. I read that USB2 is slow and doesn't do well. :( Sheesh.
Can we have real USB SSDs? (Score:2)
I bought a 512GB SSD for $400-ish. It's about time somebody stuffed that kind of drive into a USB stick. It should have mass market appeal so the volume should be much higher than regular SSDs.
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I bought a 512GB SSD for $400-ish. It's about time somebody stuffed that kind of drive into a USB stick. It should have mass market appeal so the volume should be much higher than regular SSDs.
Dennis Nedry called, he's got the complete mapped DNA of all the dinosaurs for you. He'll be delivering them as soon as he gets his car out of the mud.
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Holy crap, not only did someone make a Jurassic Park reference, but I got it without having to look it up.
You realize it's been twenty freaking years since that movie came out? I remember playing the theme song in my high school band. Sometimes I look at the guy in the mirror and wonder where the wrinkles and gray hair came from.
Then my nine-year-old daughter asks me to get out of the bathroom so she can do her hair before she goes to her mom's house.
"Oh, right."
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Holy crap, not only did someone make a Jurassic Park reference, but I got it without having to look it up.
You realize it's been twenty freaking years since that movie came out? I remember playing the theme song in my high school band. Sometimes I look at the guy in the mirror and wonder where the wrinkles and gray hair came from.
Then my nine-year-old daughter asks me to get out of the bathroom so she can do her hair before she goes to her mom's house.
"Oh, right."
Yeah. And I remember reading the book, at 3 AM with my heart pounding so hard in my chest that it hurt. Michael Crichton was a hell of a suspense writer -- too bad so little of it survived into the film. Steven Spielberg can be terribly overrated at times.
So any day now someone's going to do it. Clone a mammoth or something. Count on it.
Re:Can we have real USB SSDs? (Score:4, Interesting)
I've never seen a good movie adaptation of a book. LotR was pretty good, but so much went missing or was different than what we imagined...
The worst I've ever seen was The Postman. It's one of the best sci-fi books I've ever read. I re-read it last month, and there were parts that brought a tear to my eye.
We should clone a mammoth just because we can. I mean, holy shit, a mammoth. We could do it too.
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Go watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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Blade runner was much better than the source material.
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for that same $400 you spent, I was able to get a 60GB SSD for my desktop, and a diskless gigabit NAS drive with a pair of 3TB mechanical drives.....
SSD's are nowhere near cheap enough to use for mass storage. They're fine for installing your OS on, but if you're archiving large amounts of data (say a BluRay/DVD collection, or a CD collection in FLAC) they're overkill.
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> for that same $400 you spent, I was able to get a 60GB SSD for my desktop, and a diskless gigabit NAS drive with a pair of 3TB mechanical drives.....
Yet none of that is terribly portable.
It's a flash drive. You're not just paying for the capacity.
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Really? Where? I saw 3 TB drives in the Fry's ad over the weekend for $129. 2x would be $258.. Oh, ok, I guess you may be right.. NAS enclosures are around $100 nowadays for 2 drive ones, right?
Still, more info about the specifics you got would be useful, maybe the 3 TB drives were cheaper than I saw.
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WD Caviar Green 3TB were on sale at NewEgg over the xmas holiday, and could have been picked up for $120... the price has gone up to $150 for them though. I'm sure if you shop around you can find different drives for less, or you could get 2.5TB or 2TB drives to make the budget. The point wasn't so much about building a 6TB NAS device for that price as it was that SSD's are *way* overpriced when it comes to large amounts of storage. :)
Ultimately, it was slightly fudging the numbers. If you shopped around an
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I bought the SSD to build large projects. My 128GB had become too small.
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The USB protocol is not designed for high performance IO to the level where you really are going to see 'real' SSD gains.
True. True.
So it'll give a little tinge of suspense while some weasel stands at a server, dowloading the entire SQL database of all Taxpayers in the US, as the seconds tick by and the weasel begins to sweat as he hears footsteps approaching the door to the server room...
My DataTraveler Experience (Score:2)
100% failure within one year, with minimal usage. None of the drive were ever more than half full.
Finally! Just stay civil & we'll get cloaking (Score:2)
"Klingon Introduces 1TB Flash Drive"... Instantly confirming my suspicion that Star Trek was an elaborate enculturation ploy -- why else would we be porting our holiday carols, plays and other cultural events--- Then I read it again, made a prolonged sad face, and went to make more coffee.
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Aren't they just encouraging piracy?
"Enabling piracy" is the mindset of a consumer, not a producer.
I produce data. I can easily generate 200GB of data from a multi-day photo shoot. I would LOVE to have that much storage available to me on a stick. Right now I use a small pile of 64GB and 128GB class-10 SD cards. I'd be a little worried about having that much data in a single point of failure, but the convenience factor would be very nice.
Videographers are becoming more commonplace at weddings and other events, and I've heard them complai
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Large raid array for a low cost/medium performance VM environment.
Low cost in about 2 years.
How many flash drives can fit in the size of one 3.5" drive?
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My late wife was an amature nature photographer and easily filled most of a terabyte.
Not everyone has an enormous pir8ted scat porn collection.
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I don't pirate at all, but want bigger disks to use as Tivo drives. Not Flash drives, of course, but heck, maybe when those get huge/cheap, then maybe so.
Even now, I download shows legally with my Tivo Stream to my iPad mini to watch on my treadmill.. (you can also stream them when in the same house, but with a semi-flaky WiFi network, I'd prefer t
Re:Piracy enablers? 2^19+2^18 is NOT enough!!! (Score:2)
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I run Knoppix as a live distribution off a USB stick (a 64-GB one using K7.02 updated and upgraded to the latest level) and I'm hitting the end of the sticks capacity with all
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Apples and oranges. That's an internal, full-size, SATA drive. This is talking about a USB stick.