These USB flash drives are pretty cool!

[Doramius]

They only have a CD ROM. and I don't have to waste any blanks. I use my company mail spending account to send the drive FedEx. I don't use the account enough anyway and have a surplus that I lose if I don't use it. I still lose an average of $250 a month because I don't use it. At the end of this year it'll be cut by $50 because I don't use it enough. I told them to cut back $200, but they say they have to keep it relatively similar to the same position across the nation. Some people use it a lot. Doesn't bother me. I mail practically everything through my company. My branch manager approves it too.

[Capmaster]

...there'd always be someone who has been tap dancing on a carpet in an unhumidified house, and then draws a three-foot-long lightning bolt off the connector pins

Nice Visual!

Even more funny to touch the cat's nose

[garman]

alright cap look at this compact flash card

-garman

[Capmaster]

[Goober57]

alright cap look at this compact flash card

-garman

You forgot to add one little detail..........the price.

$15,000

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0405/04052601pretec12gb.asp

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[Conquest10]

It'll be WAY cheaper if you just get 12 1gb cards.

[Goober57]

It'll be WAY cheaper if you just get 12 1gb cards.

Yep. I bought a 1gb card for my camera for $81, but that 12gb
sure looks cool.

I'll have to sell my house first though!!!

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[ViRaL1]

http://www.pretec.com/OnlineSales/SSD/Cheetah/Cheetah_Pages/Cheetah80X_12GB.htm

If anyone's interested, I can get you one for only $12k. :/

BTW FW800 AKA IEEE 1394b supports speeds of up to 800Mbps (equal to ATA100)....
...and they said ATA133 was a waste. :P

[Capmaster]

It'll be WAY cheaper if you just get 12 1gb cards.

Yep. I bought a 1gb card for my camera for $81, but that 12gb
sure looks cool.

I'll have to sell my house first though!!!

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But then three weeks after you sold your house and bought it you'd see a sale on them for $99.95

[Doramius]

http://www.pretec.com/OnlineSales/SSD/Cheetah/Cheetah_Pages/Cheetah80X_12GB.htm

If anyone's interested, I can get you one for only $12k. :/

BTW FW800 AKA IEEE 1394b supports speeds of up to 800Mbps (equal to ATA100)....
...and they said ATA133 was a waste. :P

Would you really notice the difference? :/

[Garibaldi]

Is 12 GB the biggest they have so far in flash tech?

[Goober57]

Even if they keep increasing the size of the cards, what about the devices that use them?

I have a 1gb card in my camera. So, if I would put that 12gb card
in it, wouldn't that be the same as putting a Hemi in a lawnmower?

How long would it take to fill, and then erase, the card with
my little camera.

Doesn't all of the technology have to keep up at the same time
to work properly together?

Just wondering!

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[Goober57]

Is 12 GB the biggest they have so far in flash tech?

I just found this, but I didn't read all of it.

16gb on the way!

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Sep/bch20040920027032.htm

So, now my last post really makes sense!
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[Garibaldi]

Even if they keep increasing the size of the cards, what about the devices that use them?

I have a 1gb card in my camera. So, if I would put that 12gb card
in it, wouldn't that be the same as putting a Hemi in a lawnmower?

How long would it take to fill, and then erase, the card with
my little camera.

Doesn't all of the technology have to keep up at the same time
to work properly together?

Just wondering!

Good question! I'd like to see a lawnmower with a hemi in it, it would almost fly!

[tekkieman]

Even if they keep increasing the size of the cards, what about the devices that use them?

I have a 1gb card in my camera. So, if I would put that 12gb card
in it, wouldn't that be the same as putting a Hemi in a lawnmower?

How long would it take to fill, and then erase, the card with
my little camera.

Doesn't all of the technology have to keep up at the same time
to work properly together?

Just wondering!

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In a way, it does. I still don't fill 48M in my 2Mp camera (16M internal/32M SD) since it's just used for quick snaps. I have three 35mm SLRs for the heavy stuff. That same amount of memory wouldn't make it through a birthday party in a 5Mp.

[Conquest10]

I'm constantly filling up my 512 and 256 cards. Thinking about getting a gig card soon.

[Doramius]

I have a 128M CF card in my digital cam. I use the highest resolution on all of my pictures, so I am always filling it to capacity. However, the flash cards are used for more than still photograpghy. I'd not suggest the larger cards in older digital cameras. If you try and format it, you'd be waiting a pretty long time. The technology IS improving, which is why we have digital video cameras. A 12G CF card may not be enough time. A high quality digital capture may require 12G for 4 hours. I know people who have long wedding videos, or family vacation videos that last that long. As technology improves, we'll probably find that we can use flash drives much faster than regular HDDs and that they are more durable and easier to cool. We may end up totally not needing SCSI or IDE HDDs. They'll become obsolete. Imagine a computer with 1TB of storage space, 5G RAM, and a highly stable processor running speeds excess of 8G. Now, think of the small size and fit it into a package the size of a Tablet PC. Rather than have the PCI slots, there are 6 PCMCIA slots. How far away from that do you really think we are?

[Garibaldi]

I have a 128M CF card in my digital cam. I use the highest resolution on all of my pictures, so I am always filling it to capacity. However, the flash cards are used for more than still photograpghy. I'd not suggest the larger cards in older digital cameras. If you try and format it, you'd be waiting a pretty long time. The technology IS improving, which is why we have digital video cameras. A 12G CF card may not be enough time. A high quality digital capture may require 12G for 4 hours. I know people who have long wedding videos, or family vacation videos that last that long. As technology improves, we'll probably find that we can use flash drives much faster than regular HDDs and that they are more durable and easier to cool. We may end up totally not needing SCSI or IDE HDDs. They'll become obsolete. Imagine a computer with 1TB of storage space, 5G RAM, and a highly stable processor running speeds excess of 8G. Now, think of the small size and fit it into a package the size of a Tablet PC. Rather than have the PCI slots, there are 6 PCMCIA slots. How far away from that do you really think we are?

Check out that link Goober57 posted above, some of the responses talk about the same thing as your saying. Some of them say as close as 3-5 years until we see flash tech in hdds. That would amazing!

[tekkieman]

Imagine a computer with 1TB of storage space, 5G RAM, and a highly stable processor running speeds excess of 8G. Now, think of the small size and fit it into a package the size of a Tablet PC. Rather than have the PCI slots, there are 6 PCMCIA slots. How far away from that do you really think we are?

In some aspects, we've passed it. I was working on a project last year that involved a fully working computer for field use which was comprised of a 6x6 inch motherboard with a Celeron cpu, 256M of ram, booting embedded XP off a 512M flash. All collected data was stored to a 512M flash.

[Garibaldi]

In some aspects, we've passed it. I was working on a project last year that involved a fully working computer for field use which was comprised of a 6x6 inch motherboard with a Celeron cpu, 256M of ram, booting embedded XP off a 512M flash. All collected data was stored to a 512M flash.

That sounds really cool! You don't have any pics of it do you?

[tekkieman]

Afraid not, but I can check the client website and see if they have any.

[Doramius]

I just hope an 80G flash drive doesn't cost $500.

What's scary is imagine if movies are placed on Flash drives in the future. Imagine a HYPERBIT movie. Just add polarized 3-D glasses and you're virtually living inside the movie as an extra. You can add an extremely detailed audio track with that kind of storage capacity. On the next level, you'd be able to make a 10" LCD screen and not have any bulky motorized equipment that could malfunction or need replacement. The whole thing would be totally digital. Rental stores would be the size of the old photo huts and just have an animated touch screen to pick your titles. Now that's the future.

What's funny, is if that happened, not only would DVDs be the fastest and largest accepted digital & video medium, but it would also be shortest lived if flash technology stormed through in only the next 5 years. Being faster than BETA by 5 years.

Wal-Mart is selling the Lexar IMPACT 256M drive for under $30. If they can make it in the color RED instead of BLUE (like at Wal-Mart), I'm sure target would sell them (if they aren't already).