There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and bigger USB thumb drives every six months. Well, don’t hold us to the third in 100 years, but it certainly looks like a sure bet for the time being. SanDisk announced the next iteration of their Cruzer Micro line on Tuesday, which boasts 8GB of flash storage – double the capacity of the last Cruzer Micro.
Packing all that extra storage into the new thumb drive isn’t entirely a miracle of miniaturization; the drive will also be a little fatter than its predecessor. The 4GB Cruzer Micro was about a third of an inch thick, while the 8GB version will be half an inch thick. The length will stay the same at two inches.
