The world's largest flash drive holds 2 terabytes of data
Have a ton of digital data you need stow away in your pocket? You're in luck — about two full terabytes worth of it, in fact.
Fresh off the CES news line comes word of Kingston Digital's latest offering, a massive (at least storage-wise) USB flash drive, the DataTraveler Ultimate Generation Terabyte (GT). With up to 2 TB of storage, Kingston claims it's the highest capacity USB flash drive in the world.
In the words of my colleague Damon Beres, "that's a big honkin' flash drive."
Back in 2013, Kingston was the first to release a 1 TB flash drive. The new 2 TB version comes outfitted with a zinc-alloy metal casing for "shock resistance" and a USB 3.1 adapter (sorry, MacBook Pro users).
If you were wondering just how much storage 2 TB gives you, it's about 70 hours of 4K video. You know all those episodes of Game of Thrones you pirated downloaded? You can fit the entire 60-hour series (so far) in glorious 4K with plenty of room to spare — all on a drive that fits in your palm.
The drive is primed to ship in February in both 1 TB and 2 TB sizes, but a price point hasn't been set for either model. Expect it to cost a pretty penny — stuffing all that storage into such a small package won't come cheap.
Topics CES
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