terabyte flashdrive?

allanon1965

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I have googled and not found anyplace selling these things yet, anybody know if they even exist yet?
 

Fullmetal Chocobo

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Originally posted by: allanon1965
I have googled and not found anyplace selling these things yet, anybody know if they even exist yet?

A 1,000 GB flash drive? I haven't heard or seen of anything even remotely near that.
 

ForumMaster

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Originally posted by: BUrassler
Are there even 10GB flash drives?!?!
actually i believe i read in an article that Samsung createdsa these 32gig flash chips for thier prototype SDD hdds. im looking for the article.
i'll add it later.
 

Looney

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Originally posted by: allanon1965
I have googled and not found anyplace selling these things yet, anybody know if they even exist yet?

Seeing as how there's not even a 1TB HDD yet... i highly doubt there's a 1TB flashdrive.
 

ribbon13

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Given the largest Flash drive available is 128GB and even that costs ~$20,000 . You could get nine of them for RAID5 and you'd have 1TB for ~$180,000
 

ShadowBlade

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they dont even make regular HD's 1TB (10 bucks says i will get pwned soon after posting this) so how do you expect them to be in a tiny flash drive
 

crazylegs

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Sure i gotta a couple of spare terabyte drives....

let me fish one out from behind the couch...

i'll swap it for 1 of ur FX-475's
 

alimoalem

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Originally posted by: crazylegs
Sure i gotta a couple of spare terabyte drives....

let me fish one out from behind the couch...

i'll swap it for 1 of ur FX-475's

would be willing to trade for my FX 470? :p
 

Mark R

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I've not seen terabyte flash drives.

However, you can get terabyte RAM 'drive' systems - essentially, they consist of 1 TB of battery backed RAM, together with a RAID array of normal HDs (data is periodically transferred from RAM to the drives, to protect against power failure - and on power-up the whole content of the drives is copied into RAM for fast access).

1 TB RAM drive

If you really must have flash - then the largest flash drives I know of are 589 GB. No reason, why you couldn't just RAID 2 of them for 1 GB. Be aware that flash is a lot slower than RAM, so this product isn't anywhere close to the performance of the one above.

589 GB Flash drive
 

minofifa

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laCie makes a 1TB drive,
in fact they may even make a 2TB one as well. although i think i may have read that the 2 TB unit is actually a couple of smaller HDD's enclosed in a case and RAIDed
 

Smartazz

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Originally posted by: ribbon13
Given the largest Flash drive available is 128GB and even that costs ~$20,000 . You could get nine of them for RAID5 and you'd have 1TB for ~$180,000

Oh man that's ridiculus.
 

allanon1965

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well fellas, dont pound me too much ok? someone on another board said that they saw a 1 terabyte flash drive and I said BULLSH*T, and wanted to make sure I wasnt hasty in my BS call....thanks... and thanks mark for posting those links, very interesting reading....