OMG! I just found out that they have 64 GB USB Flash Drives and they cost like $3,000!! Who would pay for something like this??

You would be surprised....Techies who have the money and want to show off will probably open their wallet for these. Remember when the first CD burner drive came out? I'm sure it wasn't cheap back then at all. Now you can get the burners for almost nothing. Technology will always be advancing and when an even bigger flash drive comes out, the price of this one will decrease as usual

Is Buslink the brand/model of the flash drive you were referring to?

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/29/buslink...e-pro-2-series/

If so, it looks like the price took a dive. $2000 off after a little over a year

Yeah. I am sure someone will have the money. I don't really understand why you wouldn't just buy another hard drive for about $50. Oh well. People are stupid.

I've never seen a flash drive with 64GB capacity before. And yes, I think that they would cost $3,000. But I mean buying 64 flash drives with 1GB capacity or even 32 flash drives with 2GB capacity would cost probably $1000 less!

I mean, other than huge movies and stuff, who would need to carry around 64 entire gigabytes of data with them?!? Many distributions of Linux are well under 64GB, even combined My Windows and Linux partitions are just exceeding 25GB a little. A variety of operating systems could run off of this thing!

But someone would have the money to buy this, as if it were to be carried around, make sure they safeguard it, it will be a target for thieves I'm sure.

Like, who is going to even spend $500 on an HD-DVD or Bluray disc drive? Maybe the industry hasn't realize that it's still too expensive.

xboxrulz

We know that from this flash memory is what's comming next, this has proven it can handle large memory sizes but still. In my opinion anyone that wants large volume storage would be better off with a portable hard drive not a flash drive. Over the next few years you will probably see these large volume flash drives for what you pay now for 1gb flash drives.
As someone said above technology is always advancing and prices dropping when new things come out.

-HellFire

64GB is about the amount of space that the nightly backup of a medium-size company would take.
So I guess this would be a viable alternative to tape backups for these companies.
So the high-availability / disaster recovery strategy of such a company would greatly benefit from putting the backups on flash drives instead of tapes.

It would be a good is the had a SD card or memory stick that was that size! If there was a SD card with 64gb, you could carry music, pictures around on the card, and use them in heaps of devices. With a USB drive, you can only use it in computers, the SD card (or similar card) could be used in many more devices (mobiles, pda's etc)

woah 64 gb, mines 1 gb

i dont think anyone would actually need a 64 gb flash drive, although, if its like mine and its setup to be an actual hard drive then u could use it as a mini portable hard drive, i installed a linux distro on mine once.

That's quite a lot of memory for a small flash drive!!!! I don't know about other people, but I had a one gigabyte flash drive when that kind of size was supposed to be huge, and it went bad after alot of wear and tear use. That thing was priced pretty steeply compared to the prices right now on those drives. I wonder how companies manufacturing 64gb flash drives at high prices will deal with people coming back for their $5000 back when the drive fails, or having to replace bad drives.

I wouldn't want to put alot of data on a 64 gig drive because I might become dependent on it and then one day lose it... lol

But I guess this paves the way for invention of 64 gig ipods or mp3/video players that run on flash memory! Probably for a price tag of around 10 grand? lol