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  • kaidenshi - Thursday, January 12, 2017 - link

    If I need to move that much data using a high speed connection, I'm going to pay one third as much and get a $25 m.2 > USB adapter[1] and a $300 1TB m.2 SSD. If I avoid NVMe, the costs stays low and I have the same data throughput as the Kingston device. Maybe my solution isn't as "rugged", but throw it in a laptop bag and it's just as safe as the laptop I'll connect it to.

    [1] https://www.amazon.com/ZTC-Enclosure-Adapter-Super...
  • vladx - Thursday, January 12, 2017 - link

    That would be a waste of a SSD unless the enclosure has TRIM support and those that have it are >$80. Still cheaper than these premium flash drives but still not that cheap.
  • skavi - Thursday, January 12, 2017 - link

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01LXI5O01/ref=mp_s...

    This one is $20.
  • iamlilysdad - Thursday, January 12, 2017 - link

    Well that was a shallow rabbit hole.

    I couldn't seem to find a "cheap" USB-C, USB3.1 10Gbps enclosure with TRIM support.
  • BrokenCrayons - Friday, January 13, 2017 - link

    The loss of TRIM might not be a big problem for external storage devices where data is written infrequently.
  • vladx - Friday, January 13, 2017 - link

    Data is written infrequently on flash drives? Lol what are you smoking, I'm using my 64GB usb drive daily to exchange data between devices.
  • BrokenCrayons - Sunday, January 15, 2017 - link

    Even daily data transfers account for a lot less write activity than a SSD would experience when used as a system drive. There's a LOT of write activity being done behind the scenes that's transparent to the user (file modification date, paging, logging, etc) so even with very frequent writes on an external drive, the demand is usually still much lower.
  • vladx - Sunday, January 15, 2017 - link

    Lol you can't be serious. A system doing OS maintanence is writing much less than the 10-30 GB I'm writing everyday on my flash drive.
  • BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, January 17, 2017 - link

    Hello imaginary corner case invented just to have a reason to be objectionable in the comments box of an article.
  • vladx - Monday, January 23, 2017 - link

    Sorry that you can't imagine something so simple.
  • joe_merchant - Monday, January 16, 2017 - link

    It's all about the form factor. If you need to courier 1TB around all over the world, this makes sense. It doesn't make sense for 99.9% of people.
  • webdoctors - Thursday, January 12, 2017 - link

    I guess if I'm a spy or a soldier or nuclear scientist smuggling data out of a rogue state, I don't mind paying >$1K for this ...
  • jabber - Thursday, January 12, 2017 - link

    Needs to be more egg shaped for that.
  • xype - Friday, January 13, 2017 - link

    Jabber: You’re clearly playing life on the "easy" setting… :P
  • jabber - Friday, January 13, 2017 - link

    When it comes to that I sure do! ;)
  • Michael Bay - Friday, January 13, 2017 - link

    (((rogue state))), maybe.
  • shabby - Thursday, January 12, 2017 - link

    Who wants to carry that thing in their front pocket... idiots.
  • FreihEitner - Thursday, January 12, 2017 - link

    So what you're saying is... is that a DataTraveler in your pocket or... ? :-)
  • BrokenCrayons - Friday, January 13, 2017 - link

    Hey! My eyes are up here. Stop oogling my Data Traveler. Just because it's big and bulging doesn't mean you can stare at it like that.
  • zodiacfml - Friday, January 13, 2017 - link

    I like it when AT includes a use case for a product. Anyway, the product caters to a small niche.
    I another application that I hope to see is offloading of images/videos to this device during capture. For example, photographers who makes high resolution time lapses or 4K video at 60 fps.
  • fanofanand - Friday, January 13, 2017 - link

    Now if only they could drop the price by 90% and then have Sony allow me to use these for storage on my Playstation......

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