If you're experiencing a sense of déjà vu, it's not because we are repeating a news item but rather because the last couple of days have seen three different manufacturers announce 128GB flash drives. Monday it was Kingston who led off with the DT200 drive and yesterday we saw announcements from both Patriot and Edge Tech.

With yesterday's announcement, Patriot has doubled the capacity of its Xporter Magnum line of drives from 64GB to 128GB and is touting the possibilities of the Magnum not in terms of the number of photos you can store, but in the number of Blu-ray titles you can fit on the drive (in case you're wondering, Patriot says the answer is 14 movies).

Although neither Patriot not Kingston can claim to have the biggest drive on the market with offerings from three different companies out there now, Patriot is laying claim to being the fastest with a reported data transfer rate of 31MB/s. No word yet from Patriot on how much the Magnum 128GB will cost or when it will become available.