Gentlemen, meet the DT-310, a Kingston flash drive that holds 256 gigabytes of data in its tiny frame. It costs eleven hundred dollars, reads up to 25 megabytes per second and writes at 12 MB/s. It’s the most unneccessary thing I’ve ever seen, and as such, I want it very badly.

Hilariously, it’s the second generation of this model – the first, released in late 2009, had slower read/write speeds, which is understandable for a drive carrying around a whaleload of data.

Could Kingston’s monster of a flash drive be the world’s largest commercially available flash drive? My searches on Newegg and Amazon have failed to find a bigger one, so I’m willing to concede that the DT-310’s the biggest. Hey Technomaly readers – if you can find a bigger mass market, commercially produced and available flash drive, email me at asterios.kokkinos@gmail.com and I’ll send you something free in the mail! It won’t be expensive, but it will be  free!

Hey, who wants some Windows 95 installation discs?

Source & Photo Source: New York Times

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Data retrieval will be a thing of the past with this bad boy – it’s encased in CNC-milled, aircraft grade aluminum, (I don’t know what that means), comes molded in a shock-dampening collar and EPDM seal, (I don’t know what that means either), and is water-resistant to a depth of 200 meters. (I have no idea why you’d go swimming with this).

Corsair claims that reviewers and bloggers have baked, boiled, dropped, run over and microwaved this thing without breaking it, so…holy lord, these are all conditions that would never be met in real life, yet I’m happy have been enacted!

A sixteen gigabyte model will run you fifty dollars on Amazon, which isn’t too bad  – it comes with a USB extension cord, some dogtags, a 10 year warranty and bragging rights. Lots and lots of worthless bragging rights.

Source: Maximum PC

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