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Via ars
Toshiba has announced a new 1.8" 100GB hard drive that will enter mass production in January 2007.
Finally portable device sizes are increasing... although I could definitely get into a 32-64GB solid state device as mentioned in the end of that article.

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Even bigger on the way!
The process features a combination of perpendicular storage technology with a new optical thermal recording method. The company promises that drives made with this new thermal assistance could achieve recording densities as high as one terabit (128GB) per square inch. At these densities, a 1.8 inch portable drive with two platters could store as much as 500GB of data.

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That is what I'm talking about, I'm gonna wait to upgrade.

Even now USB mem drives have jumped in value with Vista being able to utilize them as "write to" memory.

Yes Sir, a feature that most people don't appreciate enough, maybe because they don't know yet?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/f ... mance.mspx

see "Windows Ready Boost" :)

Upgrading from that 1gb jump drive to a 2gb? Don't throw it away.

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Wow - that is a strange feature. But isn't the USB bus considerably slower than SATA - even if media fetch times are faster?

Is their a capacity limit?

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The SATA transfer rate maybe faster than USB 2.0 but it's the physical disk-write time which makes the flash memory faster overall.

I don't know of any limit.

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