Kingston's 256GB USB Flash Drive is $1,108
A USB flash drive larger than your console's hard disk drive.
Living in the U.S. and in search for a USB flash drive with massive capacity? Kingston is finally shipping its 256GB drive to the United States with data transfer rates of 25MB/sec. read and 12MB/sec. write.
The model known as the DataTraveler 310 replaces the 256GB DataTraveler 300, released in July 2009 to the Asia/Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.
“We saw an opportunity to push the capacity envelope for USB Flash drives in the marketplace. Customer feedback and our research determined that this is a great solution for designers, engineers and architects who have a need to easily store and transport large data files,” said Andrew Ewing, USB business manager, Kingston. “For the enthusiast who wants easy access to their full media library, the DataTraveler 310 can store up to 365 CDs, 54 DVDs or 51,000 images. This device makes an entire collection of data easily portable.”
For those thinking of packing this massive drive with sensitive information, the DataTraveler 310 features Password Traveler software, which allows the user to create and access a password-protected privacy zone. The secure area of the drive can account for up to 90 percent of the drive’s capacity and does not require administrator rights.
If you want one of these, you'd better have $1,108 sitting around.
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'A USB flash drive larger than your console's hard disk drive.'
Not really, my ps3 has a 500gig in it
It's scary that I can put the contents of my storage drive onto this USB memory stick. Honestly, theres got to be a limit to the size of these things, I still haven't found a way to fill my 16GB stick.
Copying 256GB data into this drive would take 6 hours even if the data transfer rate is 12 MB/s (I am ready to bet that actual transfer rate would be lower than this somewhere around 9 MB/s). Well I cant w8 that much amount of time. So much capacity in a USC stick makes sense to me only if the interface we are talking about is USB 3.0
Copying 256GB data into this drive would take 6 hours even if the data transfer rate is 12 MB/s (I am ready to bet that actual transfer rate would be lower than this somewhere around 9 MB/s). Well I cant w8 that much amount of time. So much capacity in a USC stick makes sense to me only if the interface we are talking about is USB 3.0
Who's asking you to fill it all up right away ? Most ppl do it overtime.
One presumes the only reason you would need a portable drive that size would be because you were constantly transfering big files. The speed and size don't match.
One presumes the only reason you would need a portable drive that size would be because you were constantly transfering big files. The speed and size don't match.
I know what you mean, but this is for people who aren't interested in transferring large files, but rather many files that add up to take a large amount of space... so they arent that concerned about the speed.
All goes well until you forget to take it out of your jeans and the missus puts your $1000 memory stick with 256GB of data through the washing machine...
perfect excuse for a divorce. If you hate ur wife that is..
i think its nice but sure way too expensive when thinking about an USB,
but id still buy it cause less place to take, easy to carry, it can b real usefull up 2 the aim n user,
liked it for sure but usb 3 wud b way much better