Why no thunderbolt flash drive?

[Radiating]

http://gizmodo.com/intels-prototype-thunderbolt-flash-drive-is-the-world-511645717

The potential is there for incredibly fast thumb drives, so why doesn't someone make a non-prototype thunderbolt thumb drive? Or even a thunderbolt/usb 3.0 thumb drive?

 

[Intell]

USB 3 flash drives do exist. I've had one for a year or two now. Thunderbolt flash drives don't yet exist because the Thunderbolt chipset is still too large for mass production for on a small flash drive.

 

[Bear]

A Thunderbolt flash drive would be over $100 more expensive than a USB 3.0 one. And it would not gain you any performance benefit. So why bother?

 

[rikscha]

never mind.

 

[droo]

intel has a prototype

http://gizmodo.com/intels-prototype-thunderbolt-flash-drive-is-the-world-511645717

Droo

 

[53kyle]

intel has a prototype

http://gizmodo.com/intels-prototype-thunderbolt-flash-drive-is-the-world-511645717

Droo

That was in the op