Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT 2TB Is World's Largest Capacity Flash Drive (betanews.com) 79
BrianFagioli writes: Today, Kingston announced a product that may get people excited about flash drives again. The company has created a 2TB pocket flash drive (also available in 1TB), called DataTraveler Ultimate GT (Generation Terabyte). This is now the world's largest capacity USB flash drive. "Power users will have the ability to store massive amounts of data in a small form factor, including up to 70 hours of 4K video on a single 2TB drive. DataTraveler Ultimate GT offers superior quality in a high-end design as it is made of a zinc-alloy metal casing for shock resistance. Its compact size gives the tech enthusiast or professional user an easily portable solution to store and transfer their high capacity files," says Kingston.
when you need to take ALL OF YOUR PORN (Score:5, Funny)
everywhere you go
Imagine the horror when you're overseas, no access to cheap data and you have run out of porn to watch
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Is the usable life of this drive long enough to even fill it to capacity?
Will it be obsolete before you can get it full?
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This story is about a thumb drive not an external disk drive.
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If your thumb is as big as this thing then you should see a doctor.
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From TFA: 72mm x 26.94mm x 21mm
I've measured my own thumb; and it's not much smaller.
If I calculate volume, my thumb is actually a tiny bit bigger than this thumb-drive.
And my hands are actually pretty average.
I'd say that if your thumb is significantly smaller than this, you're either a child or you'll soon be US president.
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It was a joke. I laughed. You may need to ask someone to explain humour to you.
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Imagine the horror when you're overseas, no access to cheap data and you have run out of porn to watch
For the money that this stick will probably cost, you could afford to fill your hotel room with hookers for the length of your stay.
. . . and coke . . .
. . . ask the Concierge about Blackjack locations; that's what he's there for.
. . . "Anything else you need, Mr. Sheen . . . ?"
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Ob. Futurama: "I'll build my own flash drive with hookers and blackjack. You know what? Forget the hookers. And the blackjack!"
Kingston gives you the power... (Score:5, Insightful)
... To lose EVERYTHING at once!
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USB-A does 5 Gbps, 10 Gbps on very few connectors and pretty much no product I know of, or 480 Mbps (or 12 Mbps on old enough computers)
USB-C does 10 Gbps, or maybe 5 Gbps, or 480 Mbps on some phones. So, more of the same. Sustained write speed of the drive will make it either slow or fast, or reliable and fast concurrent reads/writes if you run operating systems or VMs from it.
USB-C has more electrical power and features, homosexual connectors and can be used on phones, so it's great if needed but we're no
Re:Already a flawed product. (Score:5, Informative)
USB-A 3.1 and USB-C 3.1 is the same speed.
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Either way, the target audience for expensive flash drives is mainly Mac users, and current Mac laptops don't have any legacy USB ports—only USB-C. So building such an expensive product and giving it only a legacy USB port is a really, really bad idea, and has been for at least the last year or so.
Then again, I wouldn't expect anything better from a company that still hasn't figured out after the better part of a decade that their slide-to-uncover design offers no real protection for the USB connect
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I think you're missing my point here because of my hyperbolic comment about Mac users (on average) having more disposable income than Windows users. I guess I should tone down the snark a little.
Obviously, USB-C isn't just a Mac thing. Even on Windows machines, USB ports are being phased out, albeit not as quickly. The difference is that for Mac users, those ports are here, and they're the only ports that exist on the new machines. But even Windows users (at least the ones who are serious enough to con
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At first glance, I thought the same about USB ports, and I do agree that in the very short term (say the next year), they can be handy. But when I thought about it a little more, I concluded that ditching legacy USB isn't that much of a stretch. After all:
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I expect desktops to keep them for a decade, considering desktops still come out with PS/2 , even if only standalone motherboards you can buy on their own.
I'll go one up further. I suspect the general populace doesn't know about the existence of USB-C at all. I mostly know about it from wasting time on slashdot and tech news sites, really. The rare normal person that knows about it perhaps knows it as a slightly different kind of USB plug on phones.
USB devices that you do carry in your pocket don't matter because they are typically inexpensive and easy to replace with new versions, most of which have USB-C.
Not too bad, although spending 8 to 15 euros is a pain for
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Either way, the target audience for expensive flash drives is mainly Mac users
The target audience is anyone who's bought a laptop since the SSD era started and aren't content with their 500GB-2TB HDDs being reduced to 128-256GB. This is not a mac issue, and if it were, fuck em they can use a dongle they so rightly worship.
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The target audience for this is people who have an insane amount of disposable income, bought a computer with an 1 TB SSD, and still need more, and are willing to pay through the nose for a small improvement in portability and/or speed. That tends to match much more closely with Mac users. PC users are more likely to have cut corners on cost to begin with (resulting in too little capacity), and thus are far more likely to spend a hundred bucks for a 2 TB external hard drive and carry it in a laptop bag r
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Or maybe technology companies continue to develop expensive top ends to bring savings to the profitable mid sector who are their actual targets. But what would I know I only buy $75 memory sticks which for some reason keep getting bigger.
Their target market is offloading data from small devices. Your conceptions about something being over priced or people being rich and therefor this being targeted at mac users is just stupid, and I say this as someone who will happily line up to diss mac users.
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The thing is, Kingston is a flash part manufacturer. They don't need to develop super-high-end products, because they don't need an excuse to increase chip density beyond current levels (or at least they shouldn't). Yes, there's a benefit to having the high end for the people who really need it, but the high end for SD cards and CF cards and USB flash sticks usually means spending a couple of hundred dollars per unit, not a couple of thousand dollars. That's like the 1% of the 1% market, if that.
For a p
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The thing is, Kingston is a flash part manufacturer.
Keep telling yourself that.
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Either way, the target audience for expensive flash drives is mainly Mac users, and current Mac laptops don't have any legacy USB ports—only USB-C. So building such an expensive product and giving it only a legacy USB port is a really, really bad idea, and has been for at least the last year or so.
But now Kingston can sell you an adapter and tell you that you are using it wrong. I wonder if Apple will sue them.
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Homosexual connectors? Wouldn't a more appropriate comparison be to doggy style and missionary?
stress, either way (Score:5, Informative)
Heck, look at the size of the thing; looks like a great way to stress the socket when hanging off a desktop or stress the socket the opposite direction on any reasonably thin laptop as it props up the system.
Re:stress, either way (Score:5, Informative)
To be honest I don't think anyone is expected to buy it and use it!
If you look on Amazon they have a 512 GB version and a 1TB Version
512 GB = $296
1TB = $2700
2TB = ????
You can by a mac mini with 16gb ram a 2 TB fusion drive and i7 cpu for about â1700 why would you spend $1000 more on a flash drive.
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"any reasonably thin laptop" is probably going to require an hub/dongle to be useful anyway.
If you're really worried about stress bring back screw-on D-sub connectors!
Or 2000 hours of 720p. (Score:1)
Or even more with H.265.
Why bother with 4K when this could store most of the movies and videos I've seen in the past ten years?
Shock resistance from what? (Score:2)
How about improving the usb connector that always seems to get ripped off on this design or stopping the small all metal designs from overheating.
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Even the cheapest plastic Chinese knockoffs can handle falling from an airplane, too. They're lightweight and have a decent amount of surface area for the weight. I keyed in some approximate weight and dimension values into a terminal velocity calculator and got an estimate of only 20 meters per second. This means it has only something like 4 joules of energy while falling at terminal v
Prices? (Score:2)
I'm guessing they're pretty expensive when they have to buy copy at places like this, but you forgot to tell us the prices in this advertisement.
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Googling about, the Kingston 1TB drive sells for $1,163. This one will be a whole lot more.
You will cry when it dies a premature death (Score:4, Insightful)
Flash drives tend to die a short life if use them frequently. The ones with the USB ports that move usually fail more frequently. I'm not looking for a warranty, I'm looking for something built to last.
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If you ignore the fact that the cable breaks, and that the cable hole is so small that a standard cable will wear its way through the aluminum in under a year, the XtremKey is what you're looking for. Mine is several years old and still works. Before I got that, I would go through a flash drive every two or three months.
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I looked briefly at that.
For years, I kept a USB drive on my keychain. Various styles. Their mounting systems always inevitably failed, and this usually left me without one until I replaced it or it was returned to me (which HAS happened, though I always nuke the data and restore from backup upon its return).
The ExtremKey seems cool, but has some problems. One, the business-end -- where the data is -- unscrews and is then left to freely disappear. The tailcap is cast rather than machined (unlike any che
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Flash drives tend to die a short life if use them frequently.
Short life being defined as several years idle. Don't you have more relevant things to worry about?
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No kidding. I had multiple USB(2-3) flash sticks that didn't last ong. 2 (PNY & SP) died from installing and booting mac OS Sierra v10.12 onto it. And then I had rarely used flash sticks that died too with basic copied files. Are there any reliable USB flash sticks that will work long at all? My old USB1 64 MB flash sticks still work today!
Oh hell naw. (Score:1)
For the very rare times when I've ever needed to make that much data portable, a basic external hard drive that cost a fraction of the price was more than sufficient (and probably faster).
When the day comes where we routinely need to carry around files that are 100s of GB in size then we can talk. And on that day this thing better be in the $30 range.
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You can buy a good quality 1TB SSD [amazon.com] for $280 - much cheaper, faster, and incomparably better endurance than this thing. It'll be a little lighter and much more shock resistant and reliable than your hard drive for not a hell of a lot more $. You'll need an external USB-to-SATA enclosure, but you can get those cheap.
And, yeah, 2TB is also available for an even better $/GB.
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Hum, 1TB of FLAC from ripped CD's is over 2000 albums. At 320kbps MP3 it would be over 10000 albums, and if your bicycle touring or backpacking then frankly 320kbps MP3 is just fine and dandy.
I think people have very little idea how little space music actually takes once compressed even losslessly in comparison to modern storage capacities.
As such I call bullshit.
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But the real question is: (Score:1)
obligatory (Score:1)