USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 Terabytes of Storage, is Smaller Than a Thumb

Display Taiwan ITRI storage space Thin Card thumb drives Transcend

by James Plafke | 12:35 pm, August 31st, 2011

At Display Taiwan, a flat panel display expo, Transcend and Taiwan’s ITRI showed off a small USB 3.0 flash drive, smaller and thinner than an average human thumb, which sports 2 terabytes of storage space. Currently dubbed the “Thin Card,” the flash drive is slightly thicker than a penny, and comes in models ranging from a minimum of 16 gigabytes to a maximum of 2 terabytes.

A company representative said other details, including price and a product listing on the company’s website, hasn’t been made available because USB 3.0 hasn’t yet become an international standard. Once USB 3.0 becomes an international standard, the flash drive will be pushed to the market, expected to hit Taiwan before it releases in other territories. Check out a video of the Thin Card below.

(Slashdot via Tom’s Hardware)

Sslide458

according to the video, the controller can support up to 2To, but no-one is capable of manufacturing such a thing yet.
Travis Wright

yeah. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Joaquin Diaz Trepat

Sslide458 it’s right. Nether the less, it is impresive.
Polyamorykitten

International standards is one way of overcoming technical barriers in international commerce caused by differences among technical regulations and standards developed independently and separately by each nation, national standards organisation, or company. Meaning they are capable of manufacturing this and probably have, they just have to get everyone else on board. It can also be a matter of making the item compatible with all hardware available (within reason).
Bill_rugar

keep your opinions to yourself.
Anonymous

“What the video said” is an opinion, now? They seem to be saying the underlying tech supports up to 2TB, not that anyone is now making such a device.

As far as I know, he’s right – nobody can make 2TB of flash that small yet (and it would cost a fortune – 128 gig drives cost about $200 now. Multiply that by even 14 (assuming lower total markup per unit of storage) and it’s not marketable.

Me, I’m confused about what ITRI means by “not an international standard”; USB-IF sure seems to think it’s a finalized, published standard exactly like USB 1, USB 1.1, and USB 2.

There’s no special “international” magic in USB-IF stuff, as far as I know and can tell from their publications; USB-IF standards are all un-related to national borders, aren’t they?
sugaRush

In my humble opinion, keeping your opinions to yourself should not be encouraged. That is exactly the sort of opinion that makes me very angry and hate people. Therefore, such an opinion (i.e. the opinion that voicing one’s opinions is somehow bad) should never be voiced. Unless it is a perfectly valid fact, in which case, it should be kept secret and shrouded in mystery. ;-)
Guest

Where does one buy a drive with 128 GB? Most are 250, 500, 1TB, 2TB, etc. You can buy 2TB for about $120.

Where do you live that you’re paying $200 for 128GB of storage? That’s absurd.
RockerKitten

but this is new technology, thus making the old pricing irrelevant. New tech = new pricing. Especially since the smallest of the new tech will be 16 GB
Guestposter

He is referring to an ssd drive….
Anonymous

I’d totally tap that, fat girls need love too!!

And I want a 2.14159265TB USB or Gtfo!!
Infinity306

not for an SSD, which is what any flash drive would be.. regular harddrives yeah.. but check the prices for SSD’s.. 128GB SSD is around $150..

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