http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/ Engadget Comments for 16GB Iocell CellDisk: world's largest flash drive http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Apr 22nd 2008 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/
...and if 16gig is the current benchmark, how many of those Samsung 16gig beauties can you stuff together?

This, is, of course, the death knell for hard drives.]]>Mar 10th 2006 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Mar 10th 2006 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Mar 10th 2006 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Mar 10th 2006 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Mar 10th 2006 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Mar 10th 2006 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/"The drive comes with a protective cap which protects the USB connector."...wow! that rocks! what a deal...it comes with the protective cap! cant find those just anywhere]]>Mar 10th 2006 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/
I'm excited as hell about the size for music, but until flash media can withstand a large amount of write / rewrite cycles, magnetic disk drives will be the standard.]]>Mar 10th 2006 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/
How does that compare to the average shelf life for a traditional hard disk drive?

I’m genuinely curious because I understand that there is a DEFINATE and FINITE life limit for flash media, but realistically traditional HDs are expected to wear out after a slightly less determinable amount of time. Also older drives are often replaced for performance reasons as technology evolves, so all a flash based storage option would have to do is be guaranteed for 3-4 years and enough people would find it practical for use in a laptop (maybe still backing up files on a traditional external hard drive as a safeguard). Just a thought...]]>Mar 10th 2006 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Mar 10th 2006 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Mar 10th 2006 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Mar 10th 2006 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Mar 10th 2006 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Mar 10th 2006 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Mar 10th 2006 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Limitations
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As long as it is mass storage compliant, as all USB memory sticks are, it will work fine with the Mac.]]>Mar 11th 2006 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/
If I have a digital mp3 player, I already have portable storage; I have a digital camera with flash memory in it - I do have portable storage; and so on. I am _sure_ that every person who reads engadget on a daily basis has at least two devices that can be used as removable storage, _and_ provide other functions too [ex: camera, player, etc]

Sure, it is great to know that such a drive exists, and I'm sure I'd find a use for it if I had one. But generally, it will simply replicate the functionality of the stuff I already own.

And at the same time, Internet is a very common thing, I can upload the files I need directly to my home server. Sure, it won't work for big files.. But think about it, if you have a >1 GB drive - how many times have you used it to transport big files? (in other words, not a meg or two here and there...)

]]>Mar 14th 2006 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/
For the simple reason, that none of those solutions you mentioned (like music players and camera phones) can be just plugged into a computer without requiring a cable. You expect me to carry a cable around for the rest of my life??

Also most phones have specialized cables with one end as USB and the other as a phone socket type (which depends on the brand of phone). Same with the mp3 players, many of them require that special cable which is USB at one end and a different type USB at the other.

Flash disks are the most popular medium for data transfer bcoz u can just plug it in anywhere. That you haven't perceived this probably means, you have never used them. So, really you donot understand :)
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nope...there is larger than this one...

but 4 me..this is good enough...

can't hardly wait to grab one!!!!

]]>Sep 28th 2008 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/
Can I be confident that the data on a flash drive, with few r/w cycles, will last, uncorrupted for say... 20 years? ]]>Nov 8th 2008 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/
Now-$116,000
Discounted- $71,000]]>Jan 9th 2009 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Check out this Kanguru 64GB flash drive at TigerDirect !!
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2074958&CatId=0]]>Aug 15th 2006 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Sep 5th 2006 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/
Some flash media has a "lifetime" while others don't. MMC cards, for example, have a finite number of write/erase cycles. SD cards don't, or at the least have one so large that nobody has ever found that number. It should be noted that some flash drives have this problem, however most of those are the "32MB USB 1.1 wal mart special" veriety and I doubt these 16GB drives would use that kind of chip. Also, even MMC cards which don't last forever can be read indefinately, meaning if you just write them full of data, you can read back from them forever. As an example, using an MMC Card in a cell phone (Nokia's 3300 and N-Gage for example) to store music would be usable forever because once that music is loaded, playing the music back only reads data (assuming you don't write back more music several billion times).

On the other hand, samsung has created both a 16GB and 32GB flash-based hard drive, using flash chips instead of moving parts (It's here on engadget somewhere) put into a standard 3.5 inch hard drive case with normal ATA/IDE ports, so in a way that has been done, though not in a laptop to my knowledge. Microsoft has also added support for what they call "hybrid drives" in Vista, which are normal hard drives with some flash memory onboard. For example, a 60GB hard drive with an extra 8GB of flash, where the HDD stored the most used 8GB of data in the flash memory, and religates the less used data to the HDD. I don't see harddrives dying, but these hybrid drives seem too be the future to me, bbecause they allow most of the power/sped gains flash offers, while still allowing for 500GB of space (or more at some point).]]>Oct 9th 2006 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Jan 12th 2007 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/
The largest one is 64GB.... maybe it came out after this product.

Here is a link to see it

http://blog.techarp.com/archives/2006/08/01/fancy-a-64gb-usb-flash-drive/

:)]]>Mar 19th 2007 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Apr 11th 2007 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/and don't worry about the write cycles ..before you use the full capacity write erase time you would jump for another high capacity drive..even if you really don't have to.

Think of possessing 1.44 MB floppy drive or even better 16MB Flash drive..if you think of buying a flash drive at least you will go for 1GB..why? simply that's the way the cookie crumbles.

By the time someone say 16GB is enough there comes 64GB and people go for that irrespective of their memory needs...It's just like the case of Uncle Bill's (Bill Gates) sayings "512 KB is enough for everybody".... and think of today's people who possesses 80 GB HDD to 1500 GB HDD..so where does this 64GB Flash comes?...by the time somebody reads this there will be probably a 128GB Flash Drive or most likely 256GB. How'zat?]]>Apr 13th 2007 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/May 10th 2007 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Jun 12th 2007 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/
We are a direct importer of these drives. They also have a 32GB model which is awaiting licensing here in the US. If any one would like one we can get it for you.

www.elitebrandmgmt.com

jhuffman@elitebrandmgmt.com

Thanks,

Jensen]]>Aug 9th 2007 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Sep 16th 2007 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/16gb-iocell-celldisk-worlds-largest-flash-drive/Nov 30th 2007 2:38PM