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Is that a 1TB flash drive in your pocket or...oh, it IS a 1TB flash drive!Psst, hey you. Yes, YOU! Take a look at that thumbnail picture over there. Do you see it? Groovy, but do you know what you're looking at? Well, yes, it's a flash drive, but not just any flash drive. That just happens to be the world's largest USB flash drive. It's the Kingston HyperX Predator, and it holds a whopping 1TB of data, which is more than most Ultrabooks. Pretty crazy, right? Come closer and we'll tell you more.
We stopped by Kingston's booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and saw a HyperX Predator in person. Kingston told us it will be out in a couple of months.
In addition to holding lots of data, the HyperX Predator is a USB 3.0 drive that shovels data to and fro at around 160MB/s. In other words, it's fast and capacious. Yeah, we can dig it, we just don't know if we can afford it until Kingston sees fit to reveal the drive's MSRP.
Tireless reporter and Online Editor Jimmy Thang spoke with Kingston about a number of other products, including a new line of RAM with redesigned heatspreaders, a DataTraveler USB flash drive, and a new SSDNow V300 Series of solid stated drives (SSDs), which were actually introduced in November 2012.
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Mayhemm
January 09, 2013 at 2:23pm
Forget storing more data than most ultrabooks, that thing is the SIZE of most ultrabooks! Can you even connect it without a dongle?
Pball1224
January 08, 2013 at 8:26pm
Well, at least the audio was passable, because the video looks like it was shot by a 4 year old with a camera phone.
JonGaddis
January 08, 2013 at 7:16pm
This puts smartphones on the road to having terabyte capacity! Another nail in the coffin of the desktop PC?(I hope not)
Incognito
January 09, 2013 at 4:35pm
That's pretty absurd. I don't care how much storage space a cell phone has it will never replace a PC. Browsing websites on a 4" screen is enough of a chore, let alone doing anything productive. Playing games on a cell phone is a joke unless you're playing solitaire or some other "lite" game like Angry Birds.
pastorbob
January 08, 2013 at 6:39pm
1 TB flash drive. All I can say is I want one!!
I was rummaging through my parts drawer a few days ago and came across a 512 MB flash drive that I bought about 9 years ago. I remember at the time thinking it was enormous and would handle all I would ever need to transport from home to office.
Now I find a 32 Gig flash drive to be restrictive.
