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Valeriy Lushchikov/Getty Images Once upon a time, 1GB of flash memory was serious capacity (and it wasn't cheap either). In early 2002, the industry was abuzz about JMTek's USBDrive and its up-to-1GB capacity. Today, that same capacity is tiny by consumer standards. Most of Kingston's current DataTraveler models start at 64GB, with some reaching 512GB.

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