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Not ones to be outdone, Kingston has just seriously upped the capacity of their thumb drives to 64GB. Now, that is a significant amount of data storage, right there. And even though it might seem excessive to some, it really will be useful to those with on-the-go data needs.
The DataTraveler 150 now has a storage capacity of 64GB, adding a boost to all previous portable pocket drives. Now, it might be a bit unnecessary if you tote around an external hard drive, too. But if you rely on a flash drive for your portable back up, then this may very well be the storage solution for you.
It’s not going to be cheap to back up your data on this DataTraveler 150, however. Expect to pay $177 for this gadget. The smaller 32GB thumb drive costs $116. They make great stocking stuffers, that’s for sure.
22 Responses to “Kingston DataTraveler 150 thumb drive has 64GB capacity”
Seriously November 20, 2008
Seriously, who wants to try and shit 64 gb of data onto one of these things? Plus these key drives do have a life cycle. I don’t see the point of them going to this size unless they have radically change how they work.
-7Daniel Lim November 20, 2008
The same way i have trusted a thousand times more riskier 3x 500Gb Raid 0 for my data drive. They been running for 3 years.
Seriously, If you don’t have faith in flash-based memory storage, you shouldn’t even turn on a computer. :)
+1mike November 20, 2008
what they need to do first is design a better case than that! I’d lose that top in no time and the hole for the tether/keyring/lanyard looks too weak. if i’m going to be hauling around 64gb i’d like it to be secure physically also.
+2Cook66 November 20, 2008
I don’t know about you Daniel, but I have used about 10-15 different thumb-drives the past 4 years and only a few of them are still working. The main reason I change them out is because they start getting seriously unreliable. While my hard drives haven’t been perfect over the years they sure are more reliable than flash storage.
Using flash storage as means of backup isn’t reliable in any way as means of storing files securely, they are great on the fly, but you really shouldn’t rely on them.
It might not be the actual storage that starts to fails, but there a lot more prone to failure than just the storage bit in these things.
Another issue is with transfer speed, we need something faster when dealing with this amount of data.
+1erick November 20, 2008
I love thumbdrive, it is small and giving me the flexibility. I would not trust it though, so there is always backup of the data inside the thumbdrive
Neutralmemories... November 21, 2008
I still have an archaic 64 mb usb flash drive.
I think we got it about 8 years ago. maybe a year or two more,trying to remember.
but this is amazing.
Neutralzero-kill November 21, 2008
Now if they were to stick a lifetime warranty (i.e. free replacement drive for life) or even the option to upgrade after a period of time, then the investment would be well worth it.
NeutralDynoJunkee November 24, 2008
You can’t leave everything up to the company. I’m pretty sure with just a little bit of thought put into it you could figure out a way to connect the cap to the thumb drive. I can’t be that hard.
We should start giving ourselves a little more credit rather than asking for it.
Nevertheless, if I had 64gb of data on this thing and I connected it to a different computer than I usual connect it to I’m sure that more than likely it will want to be reformatted. I agree that drives would need a little more software involved with them. Even considering the fact that I could install and run programs off of it. I doubt it’d work efficiently.
I’d take a lifetime warranty on this thing, that would push the sell over the edge.
NeutralIf I’m going to spend over a hundred dollars though, for storage, I’m just going to get an Ipod.
me the omnipotent November 26, 2008
this is flippin impossible. i’m looking forward to 64 GB ipod nanos…
Neutralxxshutdownxx November 26, 2008
I dont know, i think Flash drives are pretty reliable AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THEM!! Which means safely removing the device each time, annoying but well worth it. Hard drive fail more be cause they are a electronic device with moving parts, flash drives are eletroic with no moving parts, less likely to fail….just my opinion. drop a flash drive, and then drop a hard drive, which one is more likely to still work?
NeutralPaleBlueDot November 27, 2008
I have a thumb drive laying around somewhere that still works after about 6 years, including a trip through the washer AND dryer. I’d like to see any hard drive ever made do that!
Neutralmadhan November 27, 2008
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7g23 November 28, 2008
I don’t care what anyone says, 64 Gigabytes in a one inch by have an inch by quarter of an inch space or so is AWSOME!
Neutral7g23 November 28, 2008
Although the flashdrive of my dreams would have at LEAST 100 Gigs, shock PROOF casing, waterPROOF, easy to carry, a unique way of covering the plug without any loose parts(ditch the cap), and be just as fast as an internal harddrive, preloaded with thousands of tools like converters, portable applications, everything except the things that would make it not a thumbdrive, like the processor and the monitor, all with at least 100 gigs extra. I could go on, but seeing as how its late and im tired if i typed any more i would hate myself for sounding soo pathetic that the only love in my life is an imaginary thumbdrive.
+1Ike November 28, 2008
“You can’t leave everything up to the company. I’m pretty sure with just a little bit of thought put into it you could figure out a way to connect the cap to the thumb drive. I can’t be that hard.”
dynojunkee, in your knee-jerk pseudo-libertarian attempt to defend yet another boneheaded decision by yet another american corporation, one probably made by the wrong people for the wrong reasons, you overlook basic market realities.
it’s plainly obvious that anybody who needs a 64GB thumbdrive places such a high priority on their data that the physical shortcomings of this product make it non-starter. most people who would have considered purchasing this will turn instead to a ruggedized and/or capless product instead.
why not go out and carve our own thumbdrive out of wood, then mail kingston money. after all, you can’t leave everything to the company, right?
+1Jason November 28, 2008
Ike, quit being so critical.
As for me, switching between computers so often, I need a form of file transportation. While 64gb is a bit much for my needs, it’s still cool and I’m sure someone can make use of it, though I hope they back it all up very often.
NeutralRyan G December 1, 2008
How soon will we see a 1TB thumb drive? Very soon I reckon.
NeutralTheBabblingHousewife December 6, 2008
How about just having someone transform your real thumb into a bionic digit and have the flash drive built into that. Have a flip-top thumbnail. Just plug yourself into your computer. And then you wouldn’t have to worry about losing the blasted things, or anyone stealing them.
Sorry to be a smart ass….
I have no need for anything right now over 8-10 GB. But Bill Gates also once said 64KB of RAM was more than anyone would ever need…
NeutralKS December 24, 2008
I was in Shanghai and I saw them selling Sony thumb drive 120GB, 320GB and 500GB.
+2Is it possible and is it genuine?
slrman October 17, 2009
I’ve been using thumb drives for years. I currently have one by Sony (marked Vaio, of course) with 32 GB capacity I bought on ebay for $49.95. I have never had a thumb drive fail, not once, not ever. I use the 32 GB drive as a scratch drive for Final Cut Express so it gets quite a bit of use.
The proof that flash memory is the coming thing is the emergence of SDDs. They are faster, consume less power, and are more reliable than the current crop of hard disk drives. With the next generation of computers, there will be no moving parts and people will just have to get used to keyboards (the unreliable part of any computer) that are either virtual or touch pad-type devices. Technology marches on. We computer geeks should be the first to embrace that.
+1Ewdison Then October 17, 2009
Add passive cooling, there won’t even moving fans inside the system box :)
ahhh dream HTPC!!!!
-1slrman October 18, 2009
Passive cooling. Good point, but I think that, except for SDDs, we’re not close to that yet. More efficient CPUs will be the solution there. For that matter, even my thumb drives get a little bit warm, but nothing like a hard drive, of course.
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