----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Read" : Well, the new iPod touch has up to 16GB flash drives. And at least : one vendor announced 64GB flash drives a while ago (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130165-c,harddrives/article.html : ). Physics doesn't seem to be slowing them down, so don't give up hope : for a 1TB flash drive, yet. I'm not. ;) the 64Gb with thumb drives.. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/04/07/kanguru_pricey_64gb_flash_disk/ "US-based storage specialist Kanguru has launched the product for Flash disk fans who are unhappy with the weenie capacity most USB drives offer: a memory key with a whopping 64GB of storage capacity. The downside? It'll cost you rather more than your computer probably did. Yes, the Kanguru Flash Drive Max can be yours for a mere $2,800 ..." makes a clunky 200gb 2.5" laptop drive look kinda cheap :) and the 256gb solid state drive is already with us here: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20070530081801.html price so far seems to be guestimated in the 10's of thousands though. but we're 1/4 of the way to a Tb ! :) given ram was around $1000 a Mb back in the early 80's and a gigabyte of ram would have cost in excess of a cool million, I suspect we'll be seeing terabyte drives soon enough, and once the smaller SSDD's start coming out in notebooks, price drops will see them becoming reasonable soon enough. k
