By Desire Athow
There was a time when USB flash drives were hailed as the saviour of a generation, riding to the rescue of the many folks who had been burned so many times by the unreliability of floppy disks (and their low capacity).
Memory sticks or thumb drives, as they are also referred to, made the venerable plastic magnetic disks obsolete almost overnight, and single-handedly started a race to cram even more data in per unit volume with decreasing costs.
That race has now cooled down and nearly two decades after the first USB sticks hit the market, the biggest of them all has landed with the intention of stirring things up again.
Meet the Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT, a memory stick with a gargantuan 2TB capacity, not to mention an equally massive price tag (£1,507 from Currys/PC World Business – that’s around $1,950, AU$2,650). That’s twice the capacity of the previous record holder, a 1TB drive launched in 2013 by the same manufacturer.
2TB is about a million times bigger than the capacity of the first flash drives. It’s enough to store 70 hours of 4K footage, and is an order of magnitude larger than what most laptops or smartphones can cope …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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