2TB USB 3.0 drive… but it’s not for sale, yet

[CrouxL]

Who wants hard drives with these babies on the way...



Transcend and Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has developed a USB drive that has a capacity of 2TB. The 2TB thumb drive is called a Thin Card because it is thinner than the USB 3.0 interface that it uses. Transcend and IRTI have yet to officially release information about the drive or make a formal announcement but a video on Tom’s Hardware shows a 16GB version of the Thin Card with the unknown woman (apparently she is a rep) in the video explaining that the card will have a 2TB big brother available.

According to the female rep the drives have not become available on the market because Transcend and ITRI are waiting for the USB-IF to finalise some aspects of the USB 3.0 standard before releasing the new Thin Cards to the market.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Fp_...layer_embedded

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ITR...ard,13320.html

[X-Gamer]

No....It's theoretically capable of 2TB, It doesn't mean that they've figured it out yet.

[Sinshroud]

Looks quite interesting. I remember hearing about some kind of new storage media in development that was basically a type of crystal and data stored on it was written and read in the forms of light similar to have Fiber Optics work. Not sure if this is true or not but always interesting to hear about new types of technologies coming out.

Edit: here we go, I think this is it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_data_storage

[Ichigo]

Who wants hard drives with these babies on the way...



Transcend and Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has developed a USB drive that has a capacity of 2TB. The 2TB thumb drive is called a Thin Card because it is thinner than the USB 3.0 interface that it uses. Transcend and IRTI have yet to officially release information about the drive or make a formal announcement but a video on Tom’s Hardware shows a 16GB version of the Thin Card with the unknown woman (apparently she is a rep) in the video explaining that the card will have a 2TB big brother available.

According to the female rep the drives have not become available on the market because Transcend and ITRI are waiting for the USB-IF to finalise some aspects of the USB 3.0 standard before releasing the new Thin Cards to the market.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Fp_...layer_embedded

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ITR...ard,13320.html

Looks quite cool would be great to not have to carry a big hardrive everywhere

[TBlaar]

Nice fingernails there, to the person holding up this drive....

[R4C3]

Wow now that would be worth a buy....

[Seun]

A 500gb flash would be more than enough for me. Probably gonna cost an arm + leg

[Iam3G]

I know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy and apparently according to him its not that expensive. He said he'll be getting it for R1100 but somehow I find that hard to believe. Will see believe it when I see it.

[ZAP_Tech]

I know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy and apparently according to him its not that expensive. He said he'll be getting it for R1100 but somehow I find that hard to believe. Will see believe it when I see it.

That there should tell you exactly how far off those drives are, yes its possible, but real world application is probably to far off for mostconsumers... What you expect to pay for this? R1100 is a hope all i can say, you looking more at R3000+ its new and almost always expensive.

[TBlaar]

I know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy....

I also know that guy, he often talks shit