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You might think they only make knives, but Victorinox also makes some of the best flash drives on the market (in this reporter’s opinion.) They’re well-built, extremely fast, and in a few days might be available in one terabyte capacities.
Yeah, you read that right. One terabyte! In addition to more storage than you’ll ever really need hanging on your keychain, the USB 2.0/eSATA II drives will include 256 bit AES hardware/software encryption, and what appears to be a built-in monochrome LCD display. Presumably providing details on the drive contents, and available capacity.
Of course what would a product from Victorinox be without some added functionality? So it looks like the drive will come in a version packing a knife and scissors, and one free of bladed tools so you don’t have a terabyte of data confiscated by airport security. Availability should be unveiled once CES officially opens in a few days, including what will probably be a very hefty price tag. [Engadget]
You could fit 23 hours of the very finest, high definition, adult entertainment on that little stick.
You could have a lot more than 23 hours. 1000 maybe if you wanted to keep it high definition. You’ll be needing a lot of tissues. Sadly I don’t think there is a tissue dispenser tool.
Little sticks gives you adult entertainment do they…
If it is possible to fit a whole terabite into less than a square inch, it makes me wonder why the highest capacity SSD Apple can offer in its flagship desktop machine, the Mac Pro, is only 512GB…
Price probably. If Apple were to have this in their devices they would either have to jack up the prices or sacrifice profit margin. The latter of these is not going to happen.
If Apple can get away with charging £899.00 for a 27″ display (you can get an ASUS for £239.36), I’m sure they also get away with overpriced SSDs.
It is worth bearing in mind that SSD drives don’t come as standard in desktop Macs, but are an optional extra that users decide whether they want it or not.
Fact is, that spinning disk drives’ days are numbered, and that eventually all HDs will be solid state.
If I remember correctly, IBM created 1TB of storage on something the size of a stamp some time ago… I think storage sticks of this size will be more common before long.
this stuff gets under my skin they say 1tb but its only 1000gb 1000gb aint 1tb and even if it was 1000gb when u plug it in you will only have lie 950gb.
When it comes to storage, Hard drive manufacturers use one KB as 1000 bytes, and Windows uses 1024KB to 1000 bytes, this is why when you put a hard drive into Windows it says it’s smaller than it is. So it is 1TB depending on who you are talking to…
Oliver is correct, the SI unit is 1TB = 1000GB = 10^6MB etc. Computers operate in binary due to their design to the capacities are expressed as 2^x (in the case of a GB it is 2^30 Bytes) which is the reason for the discrepancy.
The article remains correct in saying 1TB = 1000GB. Your computer is wrong.
Not exactly “cutting edge” technology…
Could have been USB 3.0. If you have lots of files on the 1tb to move around you also want the speed.