Monday, July 20th 2009
Kingston Out With 256 GB DataTraveller USB Flash Drive
Kingston Technology today announced its new high-capacity USB flash drive, the DataTraveller 300 (model: DT300/256GB), which packs a massive 256 GB of data in a pocketable package measuring 70.68 x 16.90 x 22.99 mm (as big as a typical flash drive, nearly twice as thick). The package design is cap-less, with the USB connector popping-out at the push of a slider. The drive offers read speeds of 20 MB/s, and writes data at 10 MB/s. The company packs its own data-encryption software to protect data. The drive supports Windows ReadyBoost technology on Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. Backed by a 5-year company warranty, Kingston is selling the DT300/256GB for 775 Euro.
32 Comments on Kingston Out With 256 GB DataTraveller USB Flash Drive
lets do some math...
256GB * 1000 (decimal GB's) 256,000MB
at 10MB/s that wil take 25,600 seconds to fill, also known as 426 minutes, aka 7.1 hours.
SEVEN HOURS to fill a flash drive. with its 20MB/s read speed, 3.5 hours to read everything off it.
With the price and the performance, i dont see a point for this.
This is just ridiculous!
it'd still be faster than the flash drive...
It is this kind of ingenious ideas and products that makes a company go down at last. :wtf:
It'd be easier and cheaper just to get an external hard drive...
An attempt to ditch old stock?
If you REALLY want large mobile memory device so bad, just buy a large Camera Datacard, and use it in an external reader.
And no, we dont have an option to pay more to get more.
They're amazing. So small and cheap. You could buy 18 1TB HDDs for the same price as this retarded thing. :p