The Most Expensive USB Drive on Earth

Storage is a tricky thing. While Hard Drives are great for archiving Terabytes of Linux ISOs, they are VERY slow and their mechanical bits are vulnerable to magnets and wear and tear. SSD's are fast, but also susceptible to bit rot. RAM is super fast, but can't store anything once the power is off. But what if there was a tech that could solve (nearly) ALL of those problems? It's called Ferro Electric RAM, it's a form of Non-volatile RAM that has some incredible features. And a painfully high price.

Thanks @BranchEducation for use of clips from their video "How Does Computer Memory Work?"

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
2:00 What even is FeRAM?
5:15 The USB
6:40 Why don't we use it?
8:22 Long Term Storage
10:25 Outro

[LinusTechTips]

Thanks for watching!

THE USB DRIVE HAS BEEN LOCATED CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU FOR PLAYING

[SirSaizo]

shoutout to the guy the filled that usb stick daily for 2.7 billion years in a row to see how long it would last

[TeoSupreme]

8 Kilobytes is more than enough to write "I love you", and that love will sure last for a very very long time

[DaveMcIroy]

BIOS: 4MB
Storage: 8KB
Now that's what I call weird priorities.

[PsRohrbaugh]

This is so crazy. My best friend bought the very first usb flash drive ("Disk On Key"). They came in 4mb and 8mb variants. This was 2001. 8kb is crazy.

[ridnerboy]

I've watched LTT for a long time... and let me just say, this was one of the BEST, most informative, well scripted, well edited, all around fantastic videos they have ever produced... 10/10.

[unoriginalcontent]

fucking hell those magic tricks/editing at the start was smooth

[Davski]

Linus won’t do a petabyte build with this

[sploders]

1:38 - totally got faked out. I was fully expecting "right... After our sponsor!"

[gimmickmusic]

There was so much effort put into the 10 minute video. Great job guys. More videos like this would be great.

[IntrepidSpliff]

0:40 either Linus has been working on his sleight of hand or the camera op and editor did an amazing job.

[sethdavis]

I wonder how many light blue USB drives with malware will be inserted into geocaches in the Vancouver area this week?

[JoeStuffzAlt]

I worked corporate. They drilled into us that if you ship a USB drive with unreleased stuff on it, consider how much that IP is worth. That data can make a USB flash drive worth millions.

[ErikTk]

This the absolute best produced LTT video yet, by a lot. Really, really want to see more in this direction. Love that they did it with the product they did. Fantastic job Adam!

[thomasafine]

For the record, I really appreciate these dense nerdy videos. More like this please.

[selim_ct]

I loved the interrogation kilo-bit, I think it really elevated the video. Thanks to whose idea that was!

[MarcSpctr]

2.7B years you say ?

Knowing my luck, I would be the only customer who got a faulty one and it would die within 2.7 years.

[MyMacaroniman]

Loving the more "educational" content you all have been producing. It's super nice and well put together imo.

[falafell]

This is one of those golden videos from LTT, informative and filled with stupidly funny skits. Its up there with those videos where they just mess around snd teach people things, like the USB limit. Thats why I love LTT.

[neuronbuster]

3:52 that Get Out was Linus' revenge after Adam asked him to get out of his house in his AMD Extreme Tech Upgrade 😂😂