Massive increase in memory card capacities soon?
 

Researchers have developed cheap, low power technology flash memory that could, within a few years, mean we have USB sticks containing a terabyte of data. Just imagine, your latest MP3/pocket video player could have 3000 films on it.

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscell.../10/ion_memory .

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3000 films - the RPAA or whoever they are will love that one :erm:

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No, no, no. Its 3000 linux distributions :)

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Wow! That would look good on a cv!

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Bet you'd be annoyed if you lost one though :Yikes:
Thats a lot of data to lose

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Sounds great, what happens when it gets corrupt?

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you restore from your backup.

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How about no backup? So do I need to buy two?

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then you will cry!

if you have that much vital data then yeah I would suggest buying two. or backing up to other storage. HD-DVD or Blue-Ray.

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Damm rite I would cry, tech is moving soo fast my mom still uses floppy disks, which are becoming so hard to use as PC's stop coming with them standard. Whats after a terabyte anyway?

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a petabyte. then an exabyte, a zettabyte and a yottabyte. (and no, i didn't make that up although it does sound silly!)

as for floppy's, it's good to always have a USB floppy drive handy.

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another one?????????:dozey:

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lol yeah, 2 terabytes :)

(* 700 posts) :)

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Hah! Whatever the size it will never be big enough for some. ;)

But then as is so often said size doesn't matter..it's what you do with it that counts.;)

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and what are you planning to do with your USB flash drive :shocked:

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Damm:shocked: Zettabyte will be like trillions hardly used as its too big.

Very true its how you work it, USB drive that is ;)

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a Zettabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes or 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes if your proper.

although I heard a rumour that VM were starting to trial a 'up to' 20 yottabyte connection.

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I remember showing off my massive 1.2gig Quantum Bigfoot not so many years ago.
I then wondered if I would ever get close to filling the thing!


Today I have 430gig of boot aray and just under 500gig of storage array.

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lol, the bigfoots where those 5.25" hdds arent they? I only ever saw one, it was a 12GB I think and at the time we thought we could never fill it. I had 3.2GB at the time and with all my stuff installed etc I could only use about 75%.

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Hmmm.. just big enough to carry a copy of Windows 2020 "Vision" ;)