1Tb flash drive

[Walter D Vaughan Jr]

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> bounces+wvaughan=steelerubber.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of
> Richard Kreiss
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:49 AM
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> Subject: OT: 1Tb flash drive
> 
> I was reading the business section of the New York Times about CES.
> 
> One item highlighted is a 1Tb USB 3.0 flash drive.  That's a lot of
storage in a
> very small package.  The only problem is the price $1,750.
> 
> I think I'll wait 6 months or so until the price comes down to a more
> reasonable level :).
> 
> That little drive holds more than the 240 GB SSD I recently install in my
laptop.
> 
> One could run a fairly large database off a drive like this.  I wonder if
they will
> develop software to have a USB drives run in a raid configuration?
[Walter D Vaughan Jr] 

Yes. Been available for many years. That's how they developed zfs for
OpenSolaris/FreeBSD. The testing ground was a series of thumb drives from my
memory of watching that project around 6-7 years ago.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/filesystems-zfs.ht
ml