Dang ... flash drives to replace your hard drive?

[Mr. Laz]

yes... this is a tech thread, i'm sure somebody will move it once it drops.

but man, a 4 gig high performance flash drive for 94 bucks. :eek:



pretty soon you're not gonna have an installed hard drive ... just carry around a credit card size flash drive with ya all the time.

beam me up, Scotty!



Patriot Extreme Performance 4GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) Model PEF4G200USB - Retail

$92.99
-5 dollar MIR
87.99

In Stock $4.99 Three Day Shipping (Not available in HI, AK and PR)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220156

[Calcountry]

yes... this is a tech thread, i'm sure somebody will move it once it drops.

but man, a 4 gig high performance flash drive for 94 bucks. :eek:



pretty soon you're not gonna have an installed hard drive ... just carry around a credit card size flash drive with ya all the time.

beam me up, Scotty!



Patriot Extreme Performance 4GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) Model PEF4G200USB - Retail

$93.99
5 dollar MIR

In Stock $4.99 Three Day Shipping (Not available in HI, AK and PR)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220156 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220156)

Isn't it great?

[RealSNR]

I work on a laptop. I doubt you can order one without a hard drive

[Baby Lee]

1. HDTV records at 8.5 Gigs and hour, so. . .
2. What is the transfer rate, solid state over USB, compared to say, SATA or RAID?

[morphius]

Damn, that would be sweet.

[Mr. Laz]

1. HDTV records at 8.5 Gigs and hour, so. . .
2. What is the transfer rate, solid state over USB, compared to say, SATA or RAID?
Patriot Flash Drive - 32MB/s read speed and 26MB/s write speed
ATA RAID - 230MB/s READ, 225MB/s WRITE


need at least 120MB/s write speed for HDTV


still doesn't compare to SATA ... but it's getting better all the time.

[ct]

So maybe pretty soon you can plug your flash/hard drive into some outa town kiosk, and you're setup with your own home PC on the road.

Of course, big brother will be watching...

[ck_IN]

Give it a few years so the r/w times catch up and you've got the idea.

By the end of the decade I expect laptops to be little more then a cpu, screen, and a host of usb ports.

[Mr. Laz]

So maybe pretty soon you can plug your flash/hard drive into some outa town kiosk, and you're setup with your own home PC on the road...
yep ... won't be long


the drives are already big enough ... just need USB 3.0 and to improve the R/W times and you're good.

[Saulbadguy]

Won't be long, but at this point the transfer rates are too slow.

[Saulbadguy]

1. HDTV records at 8.5 Gigs and hour, so. . .
2. What is the transfer rate, solid state over USB, compared to say, SATA or RAID?
African or European?

[StcChief]

Flash USB drive has a battery built in good for 5 years,
ok for portable, don't put anything on it you want around
for a long time.

[thepascalblaze]

Glasses/flip downs will repace screens, keyboards will shrink and be supplemented w/ voice recognition. It all exists commercially already, but there's a little way to go 'til costomer satisfaction/perceived relative convenience creates real market demand to pull it all together.

Get rid of the hard drive and screen, your whole rig will fit in your pocket. Headsets, wires and flipdown visors... will be all you'll see...

...coming soon to an isolated(in the immediate physical reality)/uber-connected(in the virtual world of pixels and data) individual near you...

[ct]

Glasses/flip downs will repace screens, keyboards will shrink and be supplemented w/ voice recognition. It all exists commercially already, but there's a little way to go 'til costomer satisfaction/perceived relative convenience creates real market demand to pull it all together.

Get rid of the hard drive and screen, your whole rig will fit in your pocket. Headsets, wires and flipdown visors... will be all you'll see...

...coming soon to an isolated(in the immediate physical reality)/uber-connected(in the virtual world of pixels and data) individual near you...

I'm in for $20.

[ck_IN]

<i>keyboards will shrink and be supplemented w/ voice recognition.</i>

Great, as if the idiots walking around and yammering into their bluetooth earpieces isn't bad enough, now you're going to do the same with keyboards?! A pox upon you sir!

Actually what I think we'll get are the keyboards that roll up and fit in your pocket. They're already out but not quite ready for prime time. Perfect those and you're back to the idea of a laptop being a usb host.

The flipup idea is kind of interesting. I wonder if that would screw with your eyesite though? Another concept is a PC that projects its screen on a flat surface. I'm not too sure that'd work in an airport though.

[DaFace]

They're already producing actual flash-based hard drives for use in laptops and camcorders, but yeah, the transfer rates still suck. Plus they're expensive as hell.

PQI 64GB 2.5" SATA Drive - $2000 (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/06/07/pqui_ssd_flash_drive/)

[Mr. Laz]

<i>keyboards will shrink and be supplemented w/ voice recognition.</i>

Great, as if the idiots walking around and yammering into their bluetooth earpieces isn't bad enough, now you're going to do the same with keyboards?! A pox upon you sir!

Actually what I think we'll get are the keyboards that roll up and fit in your pocket. They're already out but not quite ready for prime time. Perfect those and you're back to the idea of a laptop being a usb host.

The flipup idea is kind of interesting. I wonder if that would screw with your eyesite though? Another concept is a PC that projects its screen on a flat surface. I'm not too sure that'd work in an airport though.
actually they already have the flip down ... it's slighty transparent and only on 1 eye so you can still function.

although i wouldn't want to try Driving with it.

[DaFace]

<i>keyboards will shrink and be supplemented w/ voice recognition.</i>

Actually what I think we'll get are the keyboards that roll up and fit in your pocket.

Who needs a roll-up keyboard when you can just use one that's projected onto any surface (http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/)?

[Saulbadguy]

I'm waiting when you can just get a jack installed on the side of your head that you can "plug in" to the system ala Shadowrun.

[Mr. Laz]

I'm waiting when you can just get a jack installed on the side of your head that you can "plug in" to the system ala Shadowrun.
The Bio to electronic connection is gonna be a difficult

[Saulbadguy]

The Bio to electronic connection is gonna be a difficult
Bio-technology amazes me.

[Hammock Parties]

Flash drives will rule. We're moving towards a completely quiet PC.

[Mr. Laz]

Bio-technology amazes me.

it does ... it's freaky stuff


it's the future too, the distant future but the future imo

[ck_IN]

<i>Who needs a roll-up keyboard </i>

Interesting. I hadn't seen that. So you could have a projected screen and a projected keyboard. The only drawback would be finding the real estate to project on.

I've seen the flipups in commercials but I haven't tried one. Any idea how well the work? It would seem that if you spend any time looking at such a thing with one eye you'd get a blinding headache. I may be wrong but I'm curious about the ergonomics of it.

[Mr. Laz]

The only drawback would be finding the real estate to project on.
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/i-glassesonline_1898_694817

won't need space to project the screen ... they will just refine some kind of optical projection glasses.

http://www.i-glassesstore.com/iglassessvga3dhphones.html

[ck_IN]

<i>it's the future too, the distant future but the future imo</i>

Not that distant. I'm looking at that in 20yrs time. They already have amputees that can control limbs with a nerve hookup and I don't mean simple open/close control either.

In 20yrs time I'm thinking something along the lines of a sensor that wil pick up nerve impulses. Basiclly you'd have think about it and the nerve would fire and trigger the sensor. The computer itself would likely be bio based.

In shorter order would be a flipup that tracks eye movement. Just like in the Appache choppers. You want to hit return? You look at the projected control on your visor, blink twice quickly and you've got it.

[Mr. Laz]

<i>it's the future too, the distant future but the future imo</i>

Not that distant. I'm looking at that in 20yrs time. They already have amputees that can control limbs with a nerve hookup and I don't mean simple open/close control either.

In 20yrs time I'm thinking something along the lines of a sensor that wil pick up nerve impulses. Basiclly you'd have think about it and the nerve would fire and trigger the sensor. The computer itself would likely be bio based.

In shorter order would be a flipup that tracks eye movement. Just like in the Appache choppers. You want to hit return? You look at the projected control on your visor, blink twice quickly and you've got it.

hope so ...

the eye trigger isn't really a bio < electronic connection, it's just a different "mouse"


true intregration of Mind>electronic will be a truly fantastic thing


6 million dollar man stuff will follow closely behind

[chief2000]

Bio-technology amazes me.

:cuss: Shutup Mean Kstate BOY.

[ck_IN]

Sorry Laz, I didn't mean for the eye control to be a bio device. I didn't make that clear. My bad.

Actually I think the only limit on bio computers/controls will be human squeemishness. I live and breath computers but there's no way in hell I'd allow myself to be biologicaly hooked to one.

Maybe the next generation won't mind a chip implant or a input port in their bodies. If so then the sky's the limit. If they do then we're limited to eye mouse controls and projected screens/keyboards.