“Are there USB pen drives that can hold as much data as external hard drives?”

(Answer requested by Pavlov Pascale)

Sure. If you have deep enough pockets, you can even buy USB pen drives up to a full 2TB — that’s TB, not GB — in size.

Two terabytes is huge capacity in a pen drive, but the price is likewise outsized — something like $1000/TB, or roughly 10x more expensive than SSDs, and maybe 20x more than HDDs. Ouch!

For example, a 2TB Kingston Data Traveler normally sells for around $2000, although sale prices can lessen the sting a bit. Here’s what I found today, as I was writing this:

So, sure: You can get pen drives in just about any reasonable size, and even some unreasonable sizes, too. But, yikes, the larger sizes are gonna get very expensive.

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