I have a few different 2GB flash drives... and I have a WD Passport (320GB) hdd...
I want to have a 64GB flash drive, if they didn't cost so much ... anyone know of any *good* cheap high capacity flash drives (that are usb 2.0)
I want to have a higher capacity drive similar to my passport... its good reliable (never crashed)... fast (awesome access for playing everything Steam )... so I wish there was a bigger wd passport, but there isn't... anyone know of a company that makes comparable drives, but high capacity?
Isn't the WD Passport a 2.5" drive?
I think the capacity on those is limited by what the HD manufacturers have out right now.
It's not as easy to cram a terabyte of data into one of those drives as it is a 3.5" drive.
Can't help much on the flash drive front though. I have an 8GB that I carry with me and I don't use it enough to even fill that up, moreless anything larger.
For storage sizes above 16 GB, I'd have to look at hard drive based technology as well. Most affordable are 2.5" drives. But I did find a Seagate 3.5" 250GB USB 2.0 for $29. Mwahahaha!
I know that some flash-based hard drives are starting to come down in price since they've moved to a higher density chips. (Some would argue that this presents its own problems when they moved from SLC to MLC, because you lose twice as much data if a cell goes bad in MLC. Others would argue performance is worse with MLC. I think both camps would be right.) But I haven't seen any of those drives hit the mass market at a price point that I would say it "didn't cost so much."
I always figured if you needed that much more space, just to get a portable hard drive. But i suppose that for ultimate "portability" you'd want a flash drive huh...? Aside from that, is there a special reason you're choosing a flash drive over a portable hard drive? and would you care to share with the class? I'll be taking notes
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I'm curious why Flash vs. Disk as well. At $0.50 per Gig, a bunch of 2.5" disk based drives would nearly net you 1TB in storage at the same cost of a 64GB Flash drive. And certainly with 3.5" drives costing $0.25 per Gig you can hold almost 2TB at the same cost.
USB 2.0 is what, 1.5 - 60 MB/sec in performance? I can't think of a single drive (Flash or external Disk) that introduces itself to the max throughput levels.
I'm curious why Flash vs. Disk as well. At $0.50 per Gig, a bunch of 2.5" disk based drives would net you nearly 1TB in storage at the same cost as the said 64GB Flash drive. And certainly with 3.5" drives costing $0.25 per Gig you can hold almost 2TB at the same cost.
USB 2.0 is what, 1.5 - 60 MB/sec in performance? I can't think of a single drive (Flash or external Disk) that introduces itself to the max throughput levels. I'm curious how well these 64GB flash drives do. I did find an announcement in 2007 from Samsung which stated that they would approach 53MB/sec for flash based drives. Interesting.
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Neophyte wrote:I'm curious why Flash vs. Disk as well. At $0.50 per Gig, a bunch of 2.5" disk based drives would nearly net you 1TB in storage at the same cost as the stated 64GB Flash drive. And certainly with 3.5" drives costing $0.25 per Gig you can hold almost 2TB at the same cost.
USB 2.0 is what, 1.5 - 60 MB/sec in performance? I can't think of a single drive (Flash or external Disk) that introduces itself to the max throughput levels.
)... so I wish there was a bigger wd passport, but there isn't... anyone know of a company that makes comparable drives, but high capacity?
