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Dan

3:00 PM on 20 July, 2009

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Employees will start being searched at the door, in case they rip off the companies entire IP with something that could fit in their sock.....!

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lifethroughalens

3:11 PM on 20 July, 2009

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a classic case of just because you can, doesn't mean you should!

Surely putting a 7.2K 250GB 2.5" HD in an ESATA / USB case would be a much faster and much cheaper and it's not exactly a bulky alternative. I can't for the life of me think who would need this.

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Neil B

3:52 PM on 20 July, 2009

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@lifethroughalens, I don't NEED it but I do WANT it :-)

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Thomas

4:04 PM on 20 July, 2009

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If like some of my memory sticks I lose this or it breaks I would be mad!

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xbrumster

4:43 PM on 20 July, 2009

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waste of resources... even billionaires wont buy this thingy...

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Pbryanw

5:02 PM on 20 July, 2009

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In ten years time we'll think, pah, 256GB, want a tiny amount of space, while we carry around our 100TB holographic-thumb-drives :)

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Ardjuna

6:08 PM on 20 July, 2009

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@Pbryanw:

Indeed. We'll probably be reading about it using the holographic-thumb-drives' projectors while scrolling through pages using our mind, all while flying through the air in our cars. :)

- you think I'm kidding, don't you...

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Ryan131

7:29 PM on 20 July, 2009

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Hmm, I wonder how long that would take to fill up, going at full-tilt?

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Xiphias

7:50 PM on 20 July, 2009

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Roughly 145 minutes, assuming 30MB/s write speed.

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bg552

8:01 PM on 20 July, 2009

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why cant any company produce a solid state 256gb mp3/pmp player using the same technology? I would buy that!

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Chocoa

8:11 PM on 20 July, 2009

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@lifethroughalens " I can't for the life of me think who would need this."

Tho' I tend to agree. History does not.

Obvious stuff, but is seems to me the more capacity we get - the more we 'need'.

So far as portable storage goes, look as far as floppy disc -> CD(700MB) -> DVD (9GB) -> now BluRay (50GB) ->?

I would think the move away from mechanical(HDD/CD/DVD/BR) technology, to non mechanical storage can only be of advantage, in the long term. In addition, as we all know, emergent technology is initially expensive and of limited capacity....

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ChaosDefinesOrder

9:34 PM on 20 July, 2009

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wow, so now Social Services, the NHS and the MoD can lose EVEN MORE data down the back seat of a taxi or bus!

I'm with Chocoa in the notion that the future of A/V is not with optical disks but more thumb drives containing the HD movie that you plug into the player. Be much more efficient and less prone to scratches! Current downside being that it would cost a lot more to produce than a BD-ROM currently does...

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lifethroughalens

10:32 PM on 20 July, 2009

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@Chocoa

As I tried to incline in my post - the size of the storage doesn't impress me at all - the more the merrier, hell i'd appreciate a 1TB USB stick...but not at that speed - or lack of.

That's pathetic - you'd be hanging around for hours waiting to get that filled up by which time it'll be so hot it'll melt the case probably!. And it will never achieve the 30MB/s rate so as I said - seems a tad pointless.

Now if they were using eSATA or USB 3 standards then it would make great sense :)

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rav

11:03 PM on 20 July, 2009

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it'll just be the same stuff stored in better quality. uncompressed .wav files, even higher hd films.

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Steve

8:48 AM on 21 July, 2009

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@bg

There's too much money to be made selling people paltry amounts of storage space, that's why.

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