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Re:Why lasers are so brilliantly useful by cogman10 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @09:59AM (#25777031)
Oh man, I remember laughing about that exact idea. Though, at the time it was going to be "holographic storage" which never seemed to pan out.

We never envisioned that NVMe would end up being the storage medium of choice for pretty much everyone.

I still remember my first 128MB usb drive. At the time I was like "Wow, this holds about 100 floppies worth of data, insane!"

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Re:Why lasers are so brilliantly useful by ryanmercer on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:53AM (#25777804)
My first thumb drive was 32mb, cost me 100ish USD IIRC. I was so proud of that thing, sadly I seem to have lost it in my most recent move but I keep hoping that little bit of nostalgia turns up in a box somewhere.
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Re:Why lasers are so brilliantly useful by cogman10 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:51AM (#25778648)
About the same cost of my first thumb drive.

It was one of these (though I believe the model before).

https://www.techpowerup.com/5494/usb-sticks-from-geil

Blazing fast 20MB/s write and 300MB/s read (lol)

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