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Kingston will release massive 2TB thumb drive

19 points by smb06 10y ago

LordWinstanley 10y ago
You'd think for that money they could have added an eyelet for attaching it to [eg] keyring. Very loseable grand's worth of gear, otherwise.
- kiliankoe 10y ago
  Would you really be wanting to keep something with that form-factor on your keyring?
  - LordWinstanley 10y ago
    I didn't notice anything about the size in the article. From the pics it looked like an everyday sized USB stick.
- mikestew 10y ago
  I've got a 256Gb Corsair GTX drive that I bought this year. Metal case, and though smaller than the Kingston pictured, still not svelte. If I hung that GTX on a keyring I'd be replacing the ignition switch in my car within 12 months. That Kingston? Probably pull that key right out of the ignition. As implied by a sibling comment, Kingston might have considered a keyring loop, and then practicality piped up and said "get real". It's a small version of a 3.5" enclosure, not a USB "key". There is a musical instrument pick/plectrum that sells for $30 in a world where guitar picks are $1 or less. I have three of them, they're popular amongst mandolin players. The common complaint is that picks are easy to lose, and who wants to lose $30 in the couch cushions? My response to the possibility of losing a $1000 USB drive is the same as my response to the pick problem: treat it like the expensive item it is and don't lose it. Plenty of people own jewelry in the five figure range that can be smaller than this drive or an instrument pick, and they manage to not lose those.
  - mmebane 10y ago
    I ran into that same problem when looking for a drive a couple of months ago. I wanted something fast enough to comfortably run portable apps off of, small enough to fit in my laptop without covering up 4 USB ports, and with something more sturdy than a plastic eyelet which would break in < 1 year. I didn't see many options. I finally got the SanDisk Extreme Pro USB 3.0. It only has 2010-era SSD performance, but that was still better than anything else I found which met my criteria. I would love to see another fast, small, keyring-friendly drive with newer tech. Or, alternatively, something at least as fast as the SanDisk drive, but in a thin, rugged form-factor like the Yubikey Neo.
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LeifCarrotson 10y ago
> "This is a terrific follow up to our 1TB drive released in 2013, and by doubling the capacity, users can store and carry even larger amounts of data easily." Um, is it? In 3 (now 4) years you've only increased the density by a factor of 2? That seems paltry compared to other developments in flash storage.
- blacksmith_tb 10y ago
  There isn't much detail on the controller in there either, but it seems like an odd product to me, given that there are physically smaller M.2 SSD > usb 3 enclosures available cheaply now, and then you have a proper SSD and controller at least.
  - type0 10y ago
    Actually, I don't trust Kingston because on SSD side they previously replaced Toshiba controllers with other subpar ones, without changing the model number and without informing the customers.

19 points by smb06 10y ago

You'd think for that money they could have added an eyelet for attaching it to [eg] keyring. Very loseable grand's worth of gear, otherwise.

kiliankoe 10y ago
Would you really be wanting to keep something with that form-factor on your keyring?
- LordWinstanley 10y ago
  I didn't notice anything about the size in the article. From the pics it looked like an everyday sized USB stick.
mikestew 10y ago
I've got a 256Gb Corsair GTX drive that I bought this year. Metal case, and though smaller than the Kingston pictured, still not svelte. If I hung that GTX on a keyring I'd be replacing the ignition switch in my car within 12 months. That Kingston? Probably pull that key right out of the ignition. As implied by a sibling comment, Kingston might have considered a keyring loop, and then practicality piped up and said "get real". It's a small version of a 3.5" enclosure, not a USB "key". There is a musical instrument pick/plectrum that sells for $30 in a world where guitar picks are $1 or less. I have three of them, they're popular amongst mandolin players. The common complaint is that picks are easy to lose, and who wants to lose $30 in the couch cushions? My response to the possibility of losing a $1000 USB drive is the same as my response to the pick problem: treat it like the expensive item it is and don't lose it. Plenty of people own jewelry in the five figure range that can be smaller than this drive or an instrument pick, and they manage to not lose those.
- mmebane 10y ago
  I ran into that same problem when looking for a drive a couple of months ago. I wanted something fast enough to comfortably run portable apps off of, small enough to fit in my laptop without covering up 4 USB ports, and with something more sturdy than a plastic eyelet which would break in < 1 year. I didn't see many options. I finally got the SanDisk Extreme Pro USB 3.0. It only has 2010-era SSD performance, but that was still better than anything else I found which met my criteria. I would love to see another fast, small, keyring-friendly drive with newer tech. Or, alternatively, something at least as fast as the SanDisk drive, but in a thin, rugged form-factor like the Yubikey Neo.
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LeifCarrotson 10y ago

> "This is a terrific follow up to our 1TB drive released in 2013, and by doubling the capacity, users can store and carry even larger amounts of data easily." Um, is it? In 3 (now 4) years you've only increased the density by a factor of 2? That seems paltry compared to other developments in flash storage.

blacksmith_tb 10y ago
There isn't much detail on the controller in there either, but it seems like an odd product to me, given that there are physically smaller M.2 SSD > usb 3 enclosures available cheaply now, and then you have a proper SSD and controller at least.
- type0 10y ago
  Actually, I don't trust Kingston because on SSD side they previously replaced Toshiba controllers with other subpar ones, without changing the model number and without informing the customers.