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Western Digital subsidiary SanDisk at CES 2019 is showing off a
prototype 4TB thumb drive featuring a USB Type-C interface. It’s being billed
as the world’s highest capacity USB drive although technically, it’s more of a
tiny SSD considering the Type-C connector is attached to a small wire, but
that’s beside the point.
Unfortunately, there’s not much else to report about the drive.
SanDisk isn’t sharing hardware specifications and potential pricing / launch
information also remains a mystery. Truth be told, however, the product will
probably never make it to market, at least not in this iteration.
SanDisk did something similar at last year’s CES, showcasing a
1TB USB-C drive that never launched. The idea here isn’t so much to showcase a
future product but to demonstrate advancements in flash technology. Cramming
4TB of storage onto a drive that can easily fit into your pocket certainly
accomplishes that goal.
If SanDisk did decide to go to market with this drive, it’d be
prohibitively expensive considering 2TB flash drives currently command around
$1,200
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