Saw a 32GB thumb drive on Gizmodo. 32GB is pretty sweet for a thumb drive however it is priced at $399.00 and that is after a price drop. Seems a bit too pricey for me especially when you can buy an iPod or other MP3 device and use it as a storage drive but you can also use it for music, photos and with a Zune you get radio too. So I really can’t see paying well beyond the price for one of those devices for a thumb drive that just does data storage.
I want my tech to do it all for me. When I look for data storage, I also want to access my media. When I buy a watch I want to know what the barometric pressure and what time it is in Tokyo. I was looking at a sweet D&G watch that had three different time zones. that is what I expect in a watch, more information than i would ever truly need. And that is what I expect with my tech. so keep your 32GB thumb drives. Unless of course they have a 3.5in screen speaker jack and oh year more functionality.
I was reading on Gizmodo about these new HDD SATA racks where you can plug bare hard drives in as if they were NES cartridges. I had an NES, in fact my first one had serial number 0000001, really it did and I wish I had taken a picture of it before I sent it back to be fixed.
Anyway, with this product the bare HD plugs in for use. I can see a ton of problems right off the bat with this. For one thing in our home we have cats and they shed like you wouldn’t believe. We find so many giant hairballs after 2 days of them sprinting around the house that it almost feels like we have more than two cats. And with an exposed hard drive you know where those furballs are going to congregate? Exactly, right on the hard drives. I think that is why they make enclosures for hard drives, call me crazy but I don’t see this being a big seller unless you have a ton of space in a sterile room. And there are many other better alternatives like the Drobo. Oh, I want a Drobo so bad.