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How much storage space do you need on a laptop? For most people, a few hundred gigabytes volition do it. Maybe yous need a terabyte on the device if you lot work with a lot of large files. Flash drives were long seen as a way to go on a subset of your files for easy transportation; they were smaller than your hard drive. That might non be the case anymore with Kingston'south new 2TB flash drive. You'll pay handsomely for admission to all those mobile bytes, though.

Announced at CES yesterday, the DataTraveler Ultimate Generation Terabyte (GT) comes in both 1TB and 2TB varieties. They connect to the figurer via a standard USB 3.1 Type-A port, not the new (and still rather rare) USB Type-C port. While that makes sense for the majority of devices right now, a Type-C port might have served the DataTraveler Ultimate Generation well in the near future.

Unlike other modern thumb drives which are much, much smaller than a thumb, the DataTraveler Ultimate GT is rather hulking by comparing. The casing is roughly 27x21mm, which ways it'll most likely cover more than one port, and may not even fit into some more cramped areas. Hopefully Kingston sees fit to toss in a female to male cable add-on to reach those ports. The drive has a zinc blend metal casing that Kingston says is highly resistant to shock.

It's big for a flash drive, only it's tiny compared with anything else with 2TB of storage. As Kingston points out, that's enough infinite for more than than 70 hours of 4K video at 30fps; on a flash bulldoze. This isn't the first time Kingston has broken the terabyte limit with a thumb bulldoze. The DataTraveler HyperX Predator was announced in 2013 with a maximum capacity of 1TB. Unfortunately, it wasn't produced for very long and is simply available at vastly inflated prices (i.east. over $2,000) from third-party sellers now. The original cost was a trivial over $ane,200.

Kingston wasn't ready to commit to a final retail price yet, but says the DataTraveler Ultimate GT volition be priced between 40 and 45 cents per gigabyte. That works out to $400-450 for the 1TB and $800-900 for the 2TB. That'southward a lot of money, but a significant price cut compared with the older 1TB drive. The drives will send in Feb, then Kingston doesn't exactly take a long fourth dimension to effigy out the cost.