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Recently at the PC fair, i bought the slimmest thumb drive i ever had from one of the booths. How slim is it? Here is it:

The type that i bought

8GB is sold at RM54 while 16GB is only RM99, pretty cheap compared to one year ago. And after looking at the product features, i decided to buy one @ 16GB storage capacity.

The promising product's features

I really amazed with its ultra thin and capless design which is dust and water proof. splendid right?

The actual size of the drive,almost same size as 20cts coin

But then, I was wondering what is the catch for a product which is nice looking and cheap? Finally, after started using it for few rounds, I can conclude the drawback is in its transfer speed,which is horribly slow. For an RMVB file size of about 250Mb, it took me more than 10 minutes to complete the transfer from PC to this thumb drive. WTF!!!

If you see the product features above again, it never promises high speed transfer rate!!! So, nabei to me,myself for overlooking this most important feature in a flash drive.

Talking about the speed and ultimate convenience for flash drive use, I am wondering if we can forgo the conventional mode of transfer via plugging the drive into the computer to do the transfer of information. I have a better idea to do the transfer instead: thumb to thumb contact!

Proposal: The future transfer mode from drive to drive!

Well, you may laugh at this silly thinking now but who knows one day it might be possible!

In fact, USB 3rd generation is coming soon!!!

- The SuperSpeed (USB 3.0) rate of 5.0 Gbit/s. The USB 3.0 specification was released by Intel and partners in August 2008. The products using the 3.0 specification are expected to arrive beginning in Q3 2009 and 2010. USB 3.0 connectors are generally backwards compatible, meaning the flow of information can go in both directions concurrently.

- Current USB standard is 2.0 version which max transfer rate is capped at 480 Mbit/s and introduced in 2001.

Today USB drives has even gone a further step! From being merely a computer peripheral, it has become a fashion icon or jewelry handicraft, see the other product portfolio from PNY: