Transcend introduces 256GB Pendrive

sabjiv1 · BRL Addicted , 100 Posts, Reputation : BRL$: 0, **August 24th, 2009, 05:20 AM**

Transcend has recently introduced, its next generation state of art flash drive which has capacity of 256Gb at a tech show. It is almost the same size as that of our normal 8 GB Transcend pen drive available in the market.
But the price is not offordable for ordinary people. the ex-showroom price is marked us $990. Yet it is not available in the market

Ultimate · BRL Addicted , 557 Posts, Reputation : BRL$: 0, **August 24th, 2009, 05:31 AM**

Technology is growing like anything. I am still using just 40GB hard disk in my personal computer.

dust · BRL Addicted , 447 Posts, Reputation : BRL$: 0, **August 25th, 2009, 04:52 AM**

the price is really sky rock and it is hard to imagine a 256G pendrive. by the way, there will be doubt on how many percent the capacity will lose after formatted.

dxunited · 07:35 AM

I have seen 32 gb pendeive,my friends have it.

256 gb pendrive is really a strange thing ,technology is developing at fast rate.

camhiliciouz · BRL Addicted , 242 Posts, Reputation : BRL$: 0, **August 25th, 2009, 17:46 PM**

surely, the aim of such big sized pen drives are to eliminate bulky extra hard drives right... well thinking of the mobility and the functionality of this stuff, they may actually achieve their goals..

i myself would definitely choose this than additional hard drives..

cytin · BRL Addicted , 194 Posts, Reputation : BRL$: 0, **August 25th, 2009, 19:41 PM**

The larger space for the pendrive really will give us many convenience. However, the price is really too expensive for me. USD990, not a small figure.

dust · BRL Addicted , 447 Posts, Reputation : BRL$: 0, **August 25th, 2009, 21:58 PM**

with such a high capacity, it reminds me on the SSD which using on most of the netbook. but to the worst case, it has been taken out and replaced with normal 5400rpm notebook hard disk due to its price and capacity.

bhing

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Originally Posted by sabjiv1

Transcend has recently introduced, its next generation state of art flash drive which has capacity of 256Gb at a tech show. It is almost the same size as that of our normal 8 GB Transcend pen drive available in the market.
But the price is not offordable for ordinary people. the ex-showroom price is marked us $990. Yet it is not available in the market

That's a lot of money! Well, as of now I am just confident with mine..

So, why it is not yet available in the market?

GekiDan

256GB Pendrive? It will cost one a hell lot of money. If I were to choose if I will but this or an external hard drive, I'll go for external hard drives.

Ultimate · BRL Addicted , 557 Posts, Reputation : BRL$: 0, **August 31st, 2009, 03:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by camhiliciouz

surely, the aim of such big sized pen drives are to eliminate bulky extra hard drives right... well thinking of the mobility and the functionality of this stuff, they may actually achieve their goals..

i myself would definitely choose this than additional hard drives..

I think 256GB pendrive will have more time while accessing large data when compared to the 256GB hard disk, reason will be interface, Pendrive uses USB and Hard disk uses IDE.

pralhad30 · BRL Addicted , 82 Posts, Reputation : BRL$: 0, **August 31st, 2009, 16:50 PM**

256gb pendrive is very nice ,,high innovation from transcend,,i am currently using 100gb portable harddisk,,it is good

GekiDan

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Originally Posted by Ultimate

I think 256GB pendrive will have more time while accessing large data when compared to the 256GB hard disk, reason will be interface, Pendrive uses USB and Hard disk uses IDE.

You got to be wrong. USB are fast, especially USB 2.0. I have an external hard drive that is connected on my computer via USB port loads and reads up fast. I can also transfer large files in just minutes.

~~samj221~~ · Banned , 83 Posts, Reputation : BRL$: 0, **September 2nd, 2009, 07:39 AM**

i wish i get that pendrive so I can take my whole data from my computer in my pocket

GekiDan

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Originally Posted by samj221

i wish i get that pendrive so I can take my whole data from my computer in my pocket

Well, it's kinda risky putting all your data on that removable drive and bring it anywhere you go. You might lost all valuable data and regret it.

~~samj221~~ · Banned , 83 Posts, Reputation : BRL$: 0, **September 5th, 2009, 07:06 AM**

but its good to take backup on that drive cause your harddisk can crash anytime and recovering data from crashed harddisk is a very costly so better to keep backup of all your important things

GekiDan

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Originally Posted by samj221

but its good to take backup on that drive cause your harddisk can crash anytime and recovering data from crashed harddisk is a very costly so better to keep backup of all your important things

As a backup, yes. But would you always bring your backups with you, in your pocket?
It has a higher risk of getting lost.

Hsekhar

Are you sure about the 256 GB thing? Because I can't see any information on the web regarding it. Can you share any link to the news?

If it is real, that would be one great achievement.

GekiDan

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Originally Posted by Hsekhar

Are you sure about the 256 GB thing? Because I can't see any information on the web regarding it. Can you share any link to the news?

If it is real, that would be one great achievement.

Well, the link I found is not fo the Transcend 256GB but for a Kingston 256GB flash Drive:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/20...b-flash-drive/

animemagic · BRL Addicted , 97 Posts, Reputation : BRL$: 0, **October 7th, 2009, 22:27 PM**

Wow you can have a super computer in the palm of your hands! that is what you call technology!

Ultimate · BRL Addicted , 557 Posts, Reputation : BRL$: 0, **October 8th, 2009, 03:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by GekiDan

You got to be wrong. USB are fast, especially USB 2.0. I have an external hard drive that is connected on my computer via USB port loads and reads up fast. I can also transfer large files in just minutes.

I agree that USB 2.0 is faster. But I suspect that when you use USB device with higher capacity, data access speed may be affected.

GekiDan

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Originally Posted by Ultimate

I agree that USB 2.0 is faster. But I suspect that when you use USB device with higher capacity, data access speed may be affected.

It will definitely not. Have you tried using External Hard drives? the speed of file transfer is remarkable and you can transfer lots of files withing seconds depending on the sizes of each files.

tyler13

Pen drive are replacing external hard disk. But the speed of transfer of the files between the pendrive and computer still will be an issue unless USB 3.0 is widely available.

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