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8GB USB flash drive!!!

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LoKyBuckeye

LoKyBuckeye

I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
I have a 256mb fash drive that I use for work.... I'm not sure I'll ever need 8G.

Transcend JetFlash: 8GB USB flash drive
Posted Nov 4, 2005, 9:45 AM ET by Thomas Ricker
Related entries: Peripherals

USB flash drives are hardly news unless someone can push the specs. Funny to think that even though it’s been about a year since we first started hearing about flash drives in this capacity, Transcend’s new JetFlash can still turn heads with 8GB of storage (and decent 21MB/s reads and impressive 11MB/s writes). No pricing yet but expect to drop a grand for the big GBs.
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The prices have dropped so low that instead of the usual freebies I have been getting the 128MB usb drives all the time now. I will probably send some out to our customers with our logo on it of course. They are small but it is easy to transport and I do not care if I lose one or more.
 
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LoKyBuckeye said:
I have a 256mb fash drive that I use for work.... I'm not sure I'll ever need 8G.
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My squadron bought SanDisk Micro 2GB thumb drives for all of us contractors with end-of-year fallout money (about $140 each at the time). I do a lot of large file transfers, and I've put about a gig and a half on it a couple of times. Trust me, if you had an 8GB thumb drive, you'll put so much crap on it that you'll eventually get close to filling it up. Hell, 3-4 years ago who thought you need more than 40 GB of hard disk space?

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Did a quick Google search and found at least three brands of 8GB flash drives:

Generic

SuperFlash

Transcend JetFlash
 
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Muck said:
That being said my 1Gig is normally pretty full, although the encryption adds a bit to that.
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Well, if you didn't load all that porn on it you wouldn't have to resort to encryption... :biggrin:

As for whether you'd ever need that much capacity in a thumb drive, my military supervisor asked me about moving 17GB of files onto our web server. I don't even want to think how long that would take over the network. We could burn 4 or 5 DVDs, but that would take too long. If I had one of those 16GB drives, I could probably knock that shit out in under an hour making a couple trips between the servers...
 
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