USB Drives

I’ve got an Apple G4 with a 40Gig drive that uses something called Firewire. It’s blindingly fast. You should see it downloading Digital Video in real time, that’s really fast.

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Originally posted by Vortex
Hyundai? or you mean Samsung? SEC.

Both – Hyundai has the capacity to swamp the market , and Samsungs capacity is only slightly less – the only real competitor they have now is the NEC Fab in Shanghai , along with LG – the three main South Korean Chaebol’s combined to try and corner the ucom market , they have done ok so far – although the Hyundai Wafer-Fab in Fife , Scotland , was built then immediately mothballed .

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Hyundai? or you mean Samsung? SEC.

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Originally posted by Vortex
these things are out a couple of years now….you guys find that new 😀
Anyways, the chips inside are exactly the same as with compact flashes, except for an additional microcontroller/processor to convert the memory address to USB format…bascially parallel to serial plus extra functionalities like encriptions. So, in theory, a four chip stack like those in compact flashes mean they can make at least 2GB versions and charge you roughly the same price…but no, these things are many times more expensive, there goes profittering for you…. 😡

A very good point , NEC now have the capability to produce ucom logic/memory chips with an onboard databus up to 4GB using existing manufacturing processes , so the price should stay roughly the same ……. ******** the first four chip sim board cost $16 and when it was mass production capable the price dropped to $2 , the 4GB versions ( the S chip ) cost much the same to manufacture but they tried to charge $16 for it – now their semi-conductor foundry in Livingston ( the largest in Europe ) is lying mothballed – the Koreans kicked the feet from under the market – now Hyundai have more or less cornered the market – even badge producing them for other semi-con manufacturers.

I bought a smaller 64mb version on the Internet for £17 I think it was. My primary use for it was to transfer MP3s from my laptop to my main PC, since this is the computer with the CD Rewriter on it.

It’s a great value device and something I would recommend to anybody. In the long run, it works out cheaper than dreadfully big, tiny capacity floppy disks.

Re: USB Drives

Originally posted by SOC
If anyone has seen The Recruit with Colin Farrell, the thing the one person (I don’t want to give too much away for those who haen’t seen it) uses to smuggle data out of CIA headquarters is one of these.

Poor Sandra Bullock had to save the world with a floppy disc. Someone should also tell Sandra how to close a webpage after viewing it on someone elses computer so they dont suspect anything.

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these things are out a couple of years now….you guys find that new 😀
Anyways, the chips inside are exactly the same as with compact flashes, except for an additional microcontroller/processor to convert the memory address to USB format…bascially parallel to serial plus extra functionalities like encriptions. So, in theory, a four chip stack like those in compact flashes mean they can make at least 2GB versions and charge you roughly the same price…but no, these things are many times more expensive, there goes profittering for you…. 😡

You’re right this thing is very handy.
However this turns to nightmare if one uses NT4 or older since USB drivers are quite “exotic” in those releases.