shropshire 0 #1 July 25, 2009 Kingston have just released a 256GB memory stick (cost around £500) but wow Clicky (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jcd11235 0 #2 July 25, 2009 "Fast transfer speeds" and USB don't belong in the same description. Otherwise, pretty cool, except for the price. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Opendore 0 #3 July 25, 2009 That is pretty F'n big!!! Oh.... the good old days.... the punch card of data dayz... Take Care. I don't have a license for this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #4 July 25, 2009 Wow, my first flash drive was 256K.And I remember working with punch cards. Gotta love technology. Now, I need an I-phone that doubles as a TV remote, garage door opener, and bottle opener. Then my life will be complete. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hausse 0 #5 July 25, 2009 Awesome advance of technology, but what are you gonna do with 256GB? It's probably gonna take about a week to transfer all that data Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #6 July 25, 2009 I too worked with Punch cards .... and Paper tape... Then 8" single sided, single denisty flooy disks .... Oh the good ole daze (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #7 July 25, 2009 Great. Now I can lose 256GB worth of data in one go! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #8 July 25, 2009 Well if you will keep leaving them on a train - that's your fault (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pokerstar 0 #9 July 25, 2009 Quote Great. Now I can lose 256GB worth of data in one go! Been there, done that. (but not quite THAT much data!)Fortunately, I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug, uh, regimen to keep my mind, you know, uh, limber. --- The Dude --- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #10 July 25, 2009 Quote Well if you will keep leaving them on a train - that's your fault Shush. All those people have been given new identities now, so no harm done. Anyway, I never understood what all the fuss was about. I had clearly written TOP SECRET on there. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #11 July 25, 2009 So it WAS you? (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
justinb138 0 #12 July 25, 2009 Quote Kingston have just released a 256GB memory stick (cost around £500) but wowClicky Wow. Wouldn't it be cheaper and much, much faster to just get a SSD and set it up with an eSata interface? It'd take 5-6 hours to fill that thing up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #13 July 25, 2009 hooknswoop was bragging to me about how his new Sony CX100 puts 9 hours of HD video onto a 16 GB Memory Stick. So in a month or two, when the 256GB Memory Stick comes out, that will be ... 144 hours of video?? You can leave your camera on for the whole boogie.Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyBastard 0 #14 July 25, 2009 imagine losing that fucker!Dude #320 "Superstitious" is just a polite way of saying "incredibly fucking stupid". DONK! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #15 July 25, 2009 Should be easy to keep track of it ... it's 10' long (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #16 July 26, 2009 Jesus H fucking Christ... I've got a 4 GB flash drive that made transferring shitloads of pictures and video files from the old computer to the new computer a snap. I can't imagine what the fuck I'd do with a 256 GB flash drive...."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
feuergnom 22 #17 July 27, 2009 Quote Jesus H fucking Christ... I've got a 4 GB flash drive that made transferring shitloads of pictures and video files from the old computer to the new computer a snap. I can't imagine what the fuck I'd do with a 256 GB flash drive.... that should be enough storage for all the sick & twisted shit you come up with in the next 3 decades The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 212 #18 July 27, 2009 Quote Quote Kingston have just released a 256GB memory stick (cost around £500) but wowClicky Wow. Wouldn't it be cheaper and much, much faster to just get a SSD and set it up with an eSata interface? It'd take 5-6 hours to fill that thing up. Why not a retractable fire wire port instead of USB?I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
base689 0 #19 July 27, 2009 > Kingston have just released a 256GB memory stick (cost around £500) but wow ————————————————————————— Theroretically very good indeed, actually jolly crap stuff. I own a 64 GB flash memory stick, which is quite a nice device to carry around movies, music, whatever but at 10 MB/s it takes a lifetime to fill it up. And being read at 20 MB/s doesn't change so much the timing when copying data onto a PC's HD. A 256 GB flash memory to be written on at 10 MB/s = 0.009765625 GB/s is going to be completely filled up after: 256 GB / 0.009765625 GB/s = 26214.4" = 7 h 16' 54.4" You fill it up after 7 h And you can copy the content onto a PC's HD in 3.5 h Not a really piece of technology. Yes, it's small and easy to carry around; it takes a lifetime to use it , though. If you relly need to carry (a lot of) data, either you go in the direction of using SSD 2.5" HD (which can be written at about 100-150-200 MB/s) but they are extremely expensive, plus it would need a self powered box to be able to use it, or using a traditional external 2.5" HD which are availbale at 500 GB of size and can be written at about 60 MB/s.Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #20 July 27, 2009 Horses for courses, I guess. A USB stick is frustratingly slow if you're having to transfer huge volumes of data in a hurry - but when it's fast enough, there's nothing quite like it. I use one now for music production - collaborating with a friend, so taking entire Cubase projects back and forth between my place and his. I originally used a USB stick for copying the projects between our hard drives. Then I was surprised to find that the stick itself is fast enough to stream the data for multiple MIDI and audio tracks - record and playback simultaneously - in real time, without a glitch. So now (except for backups), the songs never leave the stick and it's really cool to be able to carry them around like that! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 212 #21 July 27, 2009 Quote Horses for courses, I guess. A USB stick is frustratingly slow if you're having to transfer huge volumes of data in a hurry - but when it's fast enough, there's nothing quite like it. I use one now for music production - collaborating with a friend, so taking entire Cubase projects back and forth between my place and his. I originally used a USB stick for copying the projects between our hard drives. Then I was surprised to find that the stick itself is fast enough to stream the data for multiple MIDI and audio tracks - record and playback simultaneously - in real time, without a glitch. So now (except for backups), the songs never leave the stick and it's really cool to be able to carry them around like that! You can put an operating system on it too - run a completely different machine - on the same machine.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The111 1 #22 July 27, 2009 Quote Kingston have just released a 256GB memory stick (cost around £500) but wowClicky I'll stick with my 256,000 floppy disks thank you very much. (Ok, actually it would be less with a 1.44MB floppy.... but point remains)www.WingsuitPhotos.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #23 July 27, 2009 Good to see that you're moving with the times (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
