SanDisk Announces 128 GB USB Flash Drive
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SanDisk announced a thorough refresh cycle for its USB flash drives, with one model boasting up to 128 GB capacity.

The mainstream of storage capacities for USB flash drives isn't really moving this time; 8 to 32 GB is what you typically will see. 64 GB will be the higher-end that takes you well above $100. SanDisk's Cruzer Facet and Cruzer Pop models fill the role of the 8 to 32 GB mainstream products with prices ranging from $33 to $85. For 64 GB, you will have to look to either the Extreme for $160, or the Cruzer Glide for $100.
The Glide can also be bought as a low-cost model with 4 GB for $20 and in Q3 as a 128 GB high-capacity version for $250.
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LOL. you should know by now these."news stories" are advertisement
LOL. you should know by now these."news stories" are advertisement
2020? We already have 256GB USB sticks and I've heard of 512GB versions. They aren't always as fast as the USB SSDs that are more like 2.5" or 1.8" SSDs with a USB port, but they're often fairly fast and at a high capacity (and very high price).
But I cannot see paying three times what I paid for the 64GB just to get double capacity. The law of diminishing returns just hit a wall. But as per usual, over time, the price will surely go down. Now the question is, how much bigger can these things get while still holding true to the "thumb" size rule?
JC indeed. I haven't had a single HDD under 100GB in a PC build since about 2004.
No?
Oh well.
Shhh, don't tell anyone otherwise covert marketing doesn't work......... Drink Coke.
It can happened to those who bought Macbook air. The 2006 version was featured with a 80GB HDD.
Not as if it was important to notify but for office or work use 40GB of storage are often enough. So my question is what would be the need of that sized usb flash drive? if you need to transfer movies or lot of pictures External HDD (or SSD for the richest) are efficient enough no?
128GB to transfert .doc in your work is like hunting fly with a rocket launcher from my point of view.
I have a PC with a 32 GB hard drive, and a 64 MB flash drive.
i got my 64gb drive for about 70$ granted that was over 6 months ago, but its far from the price quoted above.
the highest capacity drives do take a premium cost, that i wont argue,
1. Bloatwares
2. HD Movies which ridiculous resolutions cannot even perceived by the human eye.
3. HD Audio with ridiculous bit rates cannot even perceived by the human ears.
And when that 50TB fails...oh boy...MY PRONNNN!
Thank you I feel less alone! As I have a 17" screen I don't feel the need of UHD resolution. I can understand that need if you have a 1.20m digonal wide screen, but on a computer it's quite unusual...