The past few months have been full of wonderful announcements about increasingly large storage at ever declining per-gigabyte prices.
Pretty much most of the big manufacturers of USB key drives have released 4gb drives in recent months and street prices are starting to fall below $300 for some of these models. I’m a big fan of Memina’s Rocket (thank God they dropped the “Pocket” adjective as that was just too suggestive on a number of levels).
Meanwhile some companies have released 4gb SD cards. A-Data’s 4gb SD card goes for $215.99 at NewEgg.Com. Add that to Sony’s planned Sony Reader, and you’re able to carry about 5,000 books with you wherever you go.
And hard drive prices continue their amazing free fall. Internal 500gb SATA drives can be found online for about $360 — that’s 2 TB for just $1,440. That’s just $5.75 to rip and store a double-layered DVD. Ah, what a great time to be a digital pack rat.