S.T. Dupont's uber-pricey 2GB USB flash drive

If that Pasha De Cartier USB drive is getting a bit stale these days, why not replace it with yet another grossly overpriced, albeit totally fashionable one from S.T. Dupont? This designer flash drive, dubbed the Lacquer and Palladium USB Key, sports that trademark diamond head pattern and a vividly colored cover. Apparently, these gems are available in turquoise blue, soft pink, palladium, and black, and while we personally feel that 2GB of data should never be worth the $480 asking price without some pretty confidential documents already loaded on, those with more money than sense can have at it. More colors after the break.

[Via Sybarites, thanks JW]

[oliveros123 @ Aug 24th 2007 11:03AM]

Now thats a very stupid way to spend money

[jessy @ Aug 24th 2007 11:05AM]

excuse me, a stone + is 2gigs...

[Rainier @ Aug 24th 2007 11:16AM]

I have a non-fashionable 4GB Lexar JumpDrive Lightning; but since I don't have the luxury of having a "diamond head pattern" or a "vividly colored cover" it costs roughly $620 less.

[Jean-Charles Prabonneau @ Aug 24th 2007 11:30AM]

The price doesn't seem to be right. The USB drive costs 480$ on their official website:
http://www.st-dupont.com/usa/catalogue_detail.php?id_gam=5&type=fonc&id_cat_sel=33
I wouldn't call it a USB drive, it's jewelery before all. it acts like a USB Key, ok. Then it's useful jewelery :-)

[Miranda Kali @ Aug 24th 2007 11:27AM]

This sounds pretty par for the course, considering that most Dupont lighters sell for about the same.
I just wonder if it makes the same trademark "ping" when you flip the cap........

[STIEN @ Aug 24th 2007 11:44AM]

But look..it's shiny!

[geforce @ Aug 24th 2007 11:56AM]

How fast is it? It's only good if it fully saturates the USB 2.0 bus by itself on reads and writes (~40MB/sec)

[trevor @ Aug 24th 2007 1:15PM]

I'm sure the target market is flooding Dupont's website as we speak with that very concern.

I mean, if their grassroot efforts could convince the company to roll out palladium cases instead of those boring old platinum ones, anything's possible!

Seriously, platinum is SO 2007 Q1.

[Steve @ Aug 24th 2007 5:05PM]

finally-- something worthwhile to buy for my kid's super sweet 16 party.

It's a good compliment to their uber destructible porsche i just bought. shh.

/end sarcasm

[A-Dawg @ Aug 24th 2007 1:40PM]

For that much, you'd think they'd at least give you somewhere to clip the cap when it's in use. I lose the cap on a $20 stick who cares, lose it on a $480 one...

[rafvrab @ Aug 24th 2007 1:43PM]

If I wanted to waste my money, I'd still buy a 2G USB drive for $20, and throw the rest out the window. Mind you, it just might get to someone who needs it more that I do!

[jason51873 @ Aug 24th 2007 2:23PM]

Looks like crap - gawdy, ugly, goofy gumby swapmeet louie looking crap.

[lol @ Aug 24th 2007 3:08PM]

Well, readers of Robb Report will jump at this. I remember seeing an ad for a platinum coated 1gb a couple years back for roughly the same cost.

Why someone who is wealthy wouldn't want to be gadget savvy enough to spend their money on something top of the line as opposed to just shiny is totally beyond me. Hell, if you've got that kind of cash to burn, just PAY someone to hook you up with the best, then pay someone else to bling it out. Geez.

Of course, I'd rather just go pick up a 2gb cruzer for $20.

[joxterthemighty @ Aug 24th 2007 4:00PM]

with the price of Palladium at over $300 an ounce its an investment! (ok even I couldnt keep a straight face saying that)

[mdesrosiers @ Aug 24th 2007 10:19PM]

Bah, I just spend $30 on a 4GB stick from Target. I had to wait weeks for them to have it in stock, but I got it.

[Jeff @ Aug 25th 2007 2:45AM]

i wonder if they will release a gold+lacquer version for those that want to match their line 2 lighters

[Dave @ Aug 25th 2007 12:22PM]

it'd make alot more sense to spend that kind of cash on a few LARGE thumbdrives with a normal style casing............ like 3 Corsair Flash Voyager 16GB drives or something, then at least for $480 you'd have 48GB of flash........... whereas with this silly blinged-out drive all you get is 2GB...........