What has portable storage come to..

[FlyingBook]

Well, this is what the USB drive has came to.

Amazingly, http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/04/toshi bas-capacious-64gb-sdxc-card-sampling-th is-december-thril is what the SD card has come to.

If companies can design those USB drives to manage hundreds of reads and writes per second, you could install an OS on that stick like any normal hard drive, with a huge amount of space to spare. I mention managment because USB thumb drives are meant to read/write that much, and from past user experiences a USB drive currently can last around 5 weeks with an operating system. Plus, there are compatability defects that limit multi-computer usage.

Let that aside, this is huge news. 128 GB of storage, in what, the size of a thumb! I remember when hard drives the size of my HAND used to have 10 GB storage limits, and before that, a GB would fit in a WHOLE BUILDING. Soon it will be terabyte USB flash drives! And imagine mini SD cards; a 50 GB mini SD card would allow playback of full HD movies on a CELL PHONE.

Discuss.

[FatJoe214]

You think that's bad look how much people are willing to pay for a calculator. link

[PenguinKommando]

At 10/28/09 12:51 AM, FatJoe214 wrote: You think that's bad look how much people are willing to pay for a calculator. link

Hey man that calculator will do your math homework, then make you dinner. It's also a high powered laser and a teleporter.

[FlyingBook]

At 10/28/09 12:51 AM, FatJoe214 wrote: You think that's bad look how much people are willing to pay for a calculator. link

Well, what storage has come to is not bad. I guess the way I put it made it seem bad, but I love this trend!

[STEM]

At 10/28/09 12:51 AM, FatJoe214 wrote: You think that's bad look how much people are willing to pay for a calculator. link

Couldn't have imagined getting through my grade school years without the ti-84. It's a dated calculator, but everyone I went to school with had one

[DM692]

At 10/28/09 12:51 AM, FatJoe214 wrote: You think that's bad look how much people are willing to pay for a calculator. link

I dunno, some of the shit on those calculators are pretty fancy.

[FlyingBook]

At 10/28/09 01:15 AM, STEM wrote:

At 10/28/09 12:51 AM, FatJoe214 wrote: You think that's bad look how much people are willing to pay for a calculator. link

Couldn't have imagined getting through my grade school years without the ti-84. It's a dated calculator, but everyone I went to school with had one

You know why I love MY calculator? It simply has a fraction feature. Adds, multiplies, simplifies, every thing you need for fractions. I bought it from my friend for 10 bucks back in 6th grade, and man what a great deal that has been. It was worth $100 when it first released, but that was back in 1997; the Explorer Plus by Texas Instruments. I still do not see the fraction capability in a lot of new calculators, which is quite sad indeed. I am used to seeing $100+ calculators though; the technology is pretty good once you fully understand the calculator.

[Sawdust]

At 10/28/09 12:46 AM, FlyingBook wrote: playback of full HD movies on a CELL PHONE.

I think that storage like that wouldn't be used for HD movies, seeing how the quality would be diminished by the screen of said cell phone.

Also USB 3.0

[hdxmike]

You guys dont know the half of it...

[Jonners]

Im quite surprised at this: Cowon UM1.

It's the same size as a paperclip, but can hold up to 16GB. I'd say that's pretty damn impressive...

[Darth-Zanuha]

Hey, i saw 1TB SD cards on OhGizmo! a month ago.

[kiwi-kiwi]

If this thing comes out, it's gonna make flash drives look like floppy disks

[WritersBlock]

At 10/28/09 01:15 AM, STEM wrote:

At 10/28/09 12:51 AM, FatJoe214 wrote: You think that's bad look how much people are willing to pay for a calculator. link

Couldn't have imagined getting through my grade school years without the ti-84. It's a dated calculator, but everyone I went to school with had one

Graphic Calculators are indeed worth the money with what they can do. I studied calculus in year 11 and 12 in high school. It's just so damn useful. Not to mention its uses in applicable maths (statistics, economic equations and shit), physics and chemistry. You can store notes on them too, which makes exams so much easier, not to mention you can transfer files between them via a wireless connection. It's pretty amazing, considering mine was the new HP model (can't remember the exact name of it), and it's still got a screen that reminds you of the original game boy.

[FBIpolux]

Well I'm not going to pay more than $30 for an USB key so... you can forget about me right now.

Maybe in 3 years.

[Freaki-boy92]

At 10/28/09 04:17 AM, hdxmike wrote: You guys dont know the half of it...

two terrabytes? that's more storage than... certainly the computer I'm typing this on!

I wonder how much porn... I mean music could be stored on that

[SteveGuzzi]

My first computer had a 10 MB hard drive.

In time HVDs will make BDs what CDs are to DVDs.

Just a decade before I was born people would pay around $400 for a basic four-function calculator.

Yeah yeah yeah technology is neat.

[YeOldeSierra]

Wow. That's great to think that we could run an Operating System off a USB. It would be nice, but it might not become mainstream for a couple of years.

[PureCarnage]

At 10/28/09 08:36 AM, kiwi-kiwi wrote: If this thing comes out, it's gonna make flash drives look like floppy disks

Nanotechnology will microsize everything now. I can't wait to see IBM get this working stable enough for production.

[robin1232]

At 10/28/09 12:46 AM, FlyingBook wrote: a 50 GB mini SD card would allow playback of full HD movies on a CELL PHONE.

a full HD movie is only 8GB, they already fit on the disks, the problem is RAM and CPU power

[fuzzum111]

The only issue I have with our tech getting smaller and smaller, is not only will we eventually get down to insectums of light we are already having issues with Quantum tunneling.

For those who don't know what that is, think of it this way.

You have a wall, and you're throwing tennis balls at it. Eventually one of those balls will hit the wall, disappear, reappear on the other side and keep moving with the inertia it hit the wall with. That is our current issue we need to overcome.

[hdxmike]

Hey fuzzum you lvled up !

Also i think that its obvious we would never actually watch hd movies on a phone for three reasons

Comfort
Practicality
Power

The phone wouoldnt be capable of it , i can store crysis on my ipod nano , that doesnt men my ipod can play it does it ?

[fuzzum111]

At 10/28/09 11:02 AM, hdxmike wrote: Hey fuzzum you lvled up !

Also i think that its obvious we would never actually watch hd movies on a phone for three reasons

Comfort
Practicality
Power

The phone wouldn't be capable of it , i can store crysis on my ipod nano , that doesn't men my ipod can play it does it ?

Yea unless it's a phone with a huge screen which would kinda..defeat the purpose. Any who I'm surprised someone who notices me o.o and noticed that I leveled up. Thanks.

[UnkutAcid]

At 10/28/09 12:51 AM, FatJoe214 wrote: You think that's bad look how much people are willing to pay for a calculator. link

I got bad news for you. Those are required in most colleges.

[hdxmike]

At 10/28/09 11:04 AM, fuzzum111 wrote: Any who I'm surprised someone who notices me o.o and noticed that I leveled up. Thanks.

Were like one big gay online family whether you like it or not :P

I looked at that HVD thing with theoretical 6 TB and i noticed something , it uses green lasers D:

Infra - RED
BLUE - ray
GREEN - laser

can anyone spot whats happening , whats next , PINK beam ?

[fuzzum111]

Nah not a pink beam, a Nova beam. Nah but seriously, tech is encountering more and more weird problems as we go into nano and smaller levels of design.

[1Tyla1]

At 10/28/09 11:17 AM, hdxmike wrote: can anyone spot whats happening , whats next , PINK beam ?

Oh cool, beams in my favourite colour, and better than the rest!

I think I'll stick with getting 16GB memory sticks for now, (estimated) £280 is pretty steep when I could get a hard drive caddy and stockpile them.

[tally1989]

At 10/28/09 12:46 AM, FlyingBook wrote: Well, this is what the USB drive has came to.

Amazingly, http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/04/toshi bas-capacious-64gb-sdxc-card-sampling-th is-december-thril is what the SD card has come to.

Wow, just wow.
That usb drive has more space then my computer

[FlyingBook]

At 10/28/09 09:31 AM, SteveGuzzi wrote: My first computer had a 10 MB hard drive.

In time HVDs will make BDs what CDs are to DVDs.

Just a decade before I was born people would pay around $400 for a basic four-function calculator.

Yeah yeah yeah technology is neat.

Translation of the technology: Two laser beams are shot at each other and combine like the death star laser weapon and reads some laser interference stuff at a holographic layer near the surface of the disk. A normal inferred beam reads a lower layer of the disk (where the servoinformation lies, which I don't quite understand yet), which would be a regular CD style aluminum layer like we have today. A "dichroic mirror" (a mirror XD) is placed IN BETWEEN these two layers and PREVENTS THE GREEN LASER from passing through and reading the lower layer, but ALLOWS THE INFERRED LASER to read the lower layer. This insures the lasers are reading the correct layers. So, this is how the storage can be doubled or more, because it is basically two disc's in one side. The holographic layer must allow some supernatural storage, because the Wikipedia information states the storage can theoretically be from 1TB to 6TB, and even a PB which is a thousand and twelve TB.

For my opinion, I have to say; you have to be fucking crazy and have WAY to much time to invent this thing. It is SO bizarre, but if it works, then hey-I want it.