CES 2013: Kingston’s 1TB USB 3.0 thumb drive coming out this year
Oh you thought you were cool with your 64gb flash drive? Later this year, Kingston will be selling this hefty 1TB USB 3.0 flash drive, so you can store every god damn thing you come across on the internet and keep it in your pocket.
Kingston is not the first company to try to cram one terabyte of flash storage into a USB drive. Victorinox beat Kingston to the punch a year earlier with its 1TB Swiss Army USB flash drive that would have fetched $3,000 if it was actually released.
So why care about Kingston’s flash drive? Well, it’s 1TB of storage in your pocket. Capacity aside, Kingston’s DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 USB flash drive (whew, that’s a mouthful) has read speeds of 240MB/s and write speeds of 160MB/s.
The Predator 3.0 also comes in a much more rugged looking metal case to withstand more physical abuse damage.
Kingston won’t say how much the 1TB flash drive costs, but based on the fact that it’s selling a 512GB of the same flash drive for $1,750, it’s probably at least half that again, if not close to double.
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