Are these new Sony USB drives out to buy yet?

Marcos · 14 Jul 2006 at 13:08

They are pretty impressive :eek:

http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/general/general/microscopic_memory!

Wouldn't mind paying a little bit of a premium for a 1gb

xb8browney · 14 Jul 2006 at 14:32

impressive :eek:

paulsheff · 14 Jul 2006 at 14:59

I'd definitely lose that.

Whatever happened to whistle keyrings...

Stelly · 14 Jul 2006 at 15:02

very very very nice

Stelly

Pulseammo · 14 Jul 2006 at 15:09

Cool, wonder what it costs though.

Lanz · 14 Jul 2006 at 15:10

U can buy simular generic flash drives like these already
http://image.******.com/UK/P0092577_C0000036_P0000000.jpg 2mm thick, bla bla, really cheap.

Marcos · 14 Jul 2006 at 18:24

Lanz said:
U can buy simular generic flash drives like these already
http://image.******.com/UK/P0092577_C0000036_P0000000.jpg 2mm thick, bla bla, really cheap.

Yeah but look at it

, looks cheap as hell

Found the sonys, ~£30 for 1GB, i think i'll leave it, i'm going to get a 2GB Duo for £5 more and a USB pen drive converter. That way i can use it on my phone.

Might pick up one of these when they drop in price

kinggost · 14 Jul 2006 at 18:38

seen you can get up 2 6gb on them

mosfet · 14 Jul 2006 at 18:53

kinggost said:
seen you can get up 2 6gb on them

More Sony Lies. The largest model is has a 2GB capacity, but they'll supply you with compression software that has an optimum of 3:1 performance.

DaveBennett · 14 Jul 2006 at 21:24

My music teacher at school has one of them, there tiny! But there preety cool, but why have one that small? The smallish ones at the moment are more convinient. Those types are just too small and fiddly.

FrankJH · 14 Jul 2006 at 22:12

mosfet said:
More Sony Lies. The largest model is has a 2GB capacity, but they'll supply you with compression software that has an optimum of 3:1 performance.

That isnt lies - storage tapes used for backups are quite often rated at 200GB / 400Gb for instance

Its common practice

Marcos · 14 Jul 2006 at 22:37

mosfet said:
More Sony Lies. The largest model is has a 2GB capacity, but they'll supply you with compression software that has an optimum of 3:1 performance.

Yeah i didn't buy the 6gb thing, 2gb sounds great, i'll winrar something if i need it compressed

Marcos · 14 Jul 2006 at 22:42

DaveBennett said:
My music teacher at school has one of them, there tiny! But there preety cool, but why have one that small? The smallish ones at the moment are more convinient. Those types are just too small and fiddly.

Yeah, i'm curious to try one of these micro format drives, the agfa aqua drives are the next best size:

If Agfa did those in different colours and up to 2GB i'd definitely have one. One in smoke black would be great, shame they only do red and only up to 512mb. I need 1Gb minimum

mosfet · 14 Jul 2006 at 22:59

FrankJH said:
That isnt lies - storage tapes used for backups are quite often rated at 200GB / 400Gb for instance

Its common practice

I've never seen a professional backup storage system that claims consistant 3:1 compression, let alone a free piece of software that comes with a cheap product.

utherpendragon · 15 Jul 2006 at 01:05

A tape drive will quote it's real capcity along with 2:1 compression capacity usually. Do Sony market them as 6GB or 2GB/6GB?

Energize · 15 Jul 2006 at 01:36

Micro sd cards are much smaller, nothing to see here.

Personally I cant see the point in these, they are too small;

micro-sd cards are smaller size
usb pens have a larger capacity and arent fiddly
usb hard drives have much bigger capacity and can fit in your pocket easily.

FrankJH · 15 Jul 2006 at 07:57

mosfet said:
I've never seen a professional backup storage system that claims consistant 3:1 compression, let alone a free piece of software that comes with a cheap product.

Even you said in your opening post "optimum" - shrugs - all I was saying was that in the (backup) storage arena compressed storage amounts are used regularly

mosfet · 15 Jul 2006 at 10:39

FrankJH said:
Even you said in your opening post "optimum" - shrugs - all I was saying was that in the (backup) storage arena compressed storage amounts are used regularly

So? Sony don't say that, Sony say that the largest capacity model is "up to 6GB".

At the end of the day, it's a lie.

Marcos · 15 Jul 2006 at 12:46

Energize said:
Micro sd cards are much smaller, nothing to see here.

Personally I cant see the point in these, they are too small;

micro-sd cards are smaller size
usb pens have a larger capacity and arent fiddly
usb hard drives have much bigger capacity and can fit in your pocket easily.

Since when can you plug micro-sd cards into any computer? i think you missed the big point, these sony drives plug straight into usb

Marcos · 15 Jul 2006 at 12:50

mosfet said:
So? Sony don't say that, Sony say that the largest capacity model is "up to 6GB".

At the end of the day, it's a lie.

but its not a lie? They've just conned you with their marketing talk. I never trust "up to" figures, on anything.

These 2GB drives really COULD store up to 6GB, thats not a lie, but what people should look at it is not the maximum they can store, its the consistent minimum they can store, which is 2GB.

Not saying its nice of Sony and all the other companies to use those sly "up to" figures on products. But they are not lying, people are simply not looking at the important figure.

Also, Sony don't print "6GB capacity" on the product, if they did then yeah, we could have a right go at them, but they probably just have something stating "up to 6GB capacity" on the packaging somewhere of the 2GB model.