The price of flash memory continue to drop to the extent, at the time of writing, you were able to purchase a 2GB USB2.0 flash drive for just £15. Economies of scale from larger production and the volatile nature of memory pricing, which is at a current low, have combined to push up capacity to an all-time high, with 4GB now considered to be an average size. In view of these facts, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for a premium-brand company to launch drives smaller than 2GB. What they need to do - if differentiating from the homogeneous norm by adding in, say, in-built security - is to opt for larger capacities.



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