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Kingston, long a leader in the memory products marketplace, doubles down with their newest creation. Way off in the distance, you can here a very quiet tinkling sound. That is the sound of Moore's Law shattering. 2TB flash drives are here. Back in 2013, Kingston brought the first ever 1TB flash drive into the world. While its exorbitant price made it an unreasonable purchase for the average consumer, we were still impressed that it was even possible. Now, Kingston has doubled down. Despite the fact that no other storage device makers have attempted to even match Kingston on its 1TB flash drive (the fakes on Amazon.com don't count), the company has decided to break its own record by unveiling both the 1TB and 2TB DataTraveler Ultimate GT flash drives ahead of CES 2017 on Tuesday. According to Kingston, the two new flash drives offer USB 3.1 Gen 1 performance, which should theoretically allow transfer speeds of up to 5Gbps in bursts. The reality is always not quite up to what it says on the engineering sheet, but that's still fast enough to make a 2Tb flash drive usable. The new drives are built with a zinc-alloy metal casing for shock resistance and feature a similar (but sleeker) design to the DataTraveler HyperX Predator 512GB and 1TB flash drives introduced in 2013. With 2TB of data, you can store up to 70 hours of 4K video, 96 average-sized PC games, 500,000 MP3 files and 256,000 24-megapixel photos. We don't usually publish tech information like this - in fact this is the first time ever - but there is a table below that shows you just how massive a 2TB flash drive really is.In fact, Kingston has included a handy comparison chart within its press release, in case you want to see just how massive a 2TB flash drive really is. This stuff is almost one of the calling cards of science fiction. Princess Leia had the plans to the Death Star on something about the size of a tea saucer - and remember 1995's Johnny Mnemonic, where Keanu Reeves' character had is brain hacked with a neural net and wiped his personal memories so he could store a whopping 80Gb of data? He could have saved himself a lot of pain by buying one of these tiny 128Gb flash drives for about $35 with shipping. Buy twenty, and there's your 2TB for about $700, but it's having it all on a single device that makes Kingston's accomplishment so remarkable. Both the 1TB and 2TB DataTraveler Ultimate GT flash drives will be available in February, but Kingston has yet to announce a price point. Kingston's previous maximum effort, the 1TB flash drive, sells for a heart-stopping $2.7 thousand. It's a sure bet that the new 2TB drives are going to be even pricier, probably in the $3000 range. Technology so expensive that what fits inside a walnut shell could cost more than a cheap used car is a daunting premise. I mean, what if you lose it? The drives will be back by a five-year warranty, and Kingston will offer free technical support. But I'd get damage and loss insurance on it if I were you. Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT Features and Specifications: Capacities1: 1TB, 2TB Speed2: USB 3.1 Gen. 13 Dimensions: 72mm x 26.94mm x 21mm Operating Temperature: -25°C to 60°C Storage Temperature: -40°C to 85°C Warranty: 5-year warranty with free technical support Compatible with: Windows® 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 (SP1), Mac OS v.10.9.x+, Linux v.2.6.x+, Chrome OS™ DataTraveler Ultimate GT Part Numbers Part Number Capacity DTUGT/1TB 1TB DTUGT/2TB 2TB OS List USB 2.0 USB 3.0 / USB 3.1 Windows 10 Yes Yes Windows 8.1 Yes Yes Windows 8 Yes Yes Windows 7 (SP1) Yes Yes Mac OS (v. 10.9.x +) Yes Yes Linux (v. 2.6.x +) Yes Yes Chrome Yes Yes Storage Chart Storage Capacity1 Photos (Compressed JPEG) Video Recording2 Storage Usage 8MP 12MP 18MP 24MP 24 Mbps (min.) 48 Mbps (min.) 720p 30fps (min.) 1080p 30fps (min.) 4K 30fps (min.) HD Movies .MKV Music .MP3 Compressed .MP4 Movies PC Games Backups 4GB 1500 1000 667 500 20 10 22 15 8 X 1038 3 X X 8GB 3000 2000 1333 1,000 40 20 44 30 16 X 2076 7 X X 16GB 6000 4000 2667 2,000 80 40 88 61 33 1 4151 14 X X 32GB 12000 8000 5333 4,000 160 80 176 122 66 2 8302 28 1 1 64GB 24000 16000 10667 8,000 320 160 260 244 132 5 16605 56 3 2 128GB 48000 32000 21333 16,000 640 320 352 488 264 10 33209 112 6 4 256GB 96000 64000 42667 32,000 1280 640 704 976 528 21 66418 224 12 9 512GB 192000 128000 85334 64,000 2560 1280 1408 1952 1056 42 132836 448 24 17 1TB 384000 256000 170668 128000 5120 2560 2816 3904 2112 83 265672 896 48 32 2TB 768000 512000 341336 256000 10240 5120 5632 7808 4224 166 531344 1792 96 64 *Based on Flash Memory Storage Chart 1Some of the listed capacity on a Flash storage device is used for formatting and other functions and thus is not available for data storage. As such, the actual available capacity for data storage is less than what is listed on the products. For more information, go to Kingston's Flash Guide at kingston.com/flash_memory_guide. 2Speed may vary due to host hardware, software and usage. 3USB 3.1 Gen 1 performance requires a host device with a USB 3.0 or 3.1 port. -30-

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