I laugh at your 1GB flash drive

[dparm]

Because mine is 64GB (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/04/07/kanguru_pricey_64gb_flash_disk/)

[drichard]

Good grief... What'll they think of next?!?! :rock:

[abudhu]

Good grief... What'll they think of next?!?! :rock:

100. Come on now. :)

[wwaller]

ya ive heard talk about terabyte mp3 players umm yaaa...............KRAZZY

[dcv]

Moore's Law.

TO THE EXTREME!!!

[jmcgon]

Would be handy for multimedia storage. Too bad it'll burn a hole in your pocket :\

[rjthomas]

Wow..That is impressive.......
I have to say though, with my personal experience (And some others') with flash drives, I would be hesitant to put large, imporrrrrrtant video projects on that with the fear of something happening. My flash drive history:
512 that I LOST
256 that stopped working after a week (Brand: MEMOREX)
512 SanDisk--Which has been okay so far. I'm still very paranoid though.

[Garret Picchioni]

I'm personally not a flash drive person even though I do have a 1GB model from imation. For anything that requires being backed up or transfered to another machine, I use my GB NAS Drive which has an FTP Client in it or my web server.

[lnp]

I would be hesitant to put large, imporrrrrrtant video projects on that with the fear of something happening.

Norrrrrrm neverrrrr puts her pirate video projects on flash drives. Yar.

[rjthomas]

You know Norm so well......!

[jharriso]

Yeah, I see flash drives randomly die fairly often at the Zone. It is bad enough when it's a 512 stick, but if it were 64 gigs worth of stuff? Terrible. They just aren't reliable enough at the moment.

[Garret Picchioni]

I'm wondering what Apple's going to do, the iPod Nano, and Shuffle both use flash based memory instead of hard drives. Flash based memory only lasts so long as we all know. I'd say give it a year or so more and we're going to see more promotions from upset customers about failed memory in the Nano/Shuffle. Did anyone see the video that guy made about the iPod's battery life?

[dcv]

Flash may have a finite number of rewrite cycles, but being that it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 rewrites, I don't think that Apple has all that much to worry about. If the average user synced their nano/shuffle once a day, they'd have about 270 years. My flash drive gets used fewer than a dozen times a day, but even at a dozen times a day, it won't die for about 22 years. I know that's a statistical number (just like lightbulb life) and isn't a hard and fast rule, but I don't think flash memory going bad is really all that big a concern.

//seen more hard drives fail than flash drives
//looking forward to when its cheap enough to use instead of hard drives

[rprice1]

Even older media like cds have a short lifespan (something around 10-15 years?) before they become unusable. Just think how much more reliable flash drives are than floppy disks; those things only lasted for about 3 days tops! I'd say theres absolutely nothing to worry about with flash drives, they are probably the most reliable media on the market. I've put my flash drive through the wash twice now and it still works like a charm!

[dparm]

No-name CDs have crap archival life, something like 4 years. Brand-name CD-R/DVD-R, such as Sony, TDK, Memorex, etc have archival lives of 20+ years.

Precisely why I don't use cheap recordable media.