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A Look at Excessive Portable Storage

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the makes-my-keys-really-hard-to-carry-around dept.

Tom's Hardware has an interesting look at portable storage devices that fall a little outside of the normal bell curve. The reviewed items include Buffalo's all-flash portable storage drive, Chaintech's flash SSD w/ an additional USB port, and LaCie's state-of-the-art RAID drive based on two 2.5" drives. LaCie's drive seemed to come out on top for usability and performance with the main downside being the $600 pricetag and lack of adequate backup software, but all had interesting advantages.

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  1. Re:Give me write-protected flash drives anyday! by palegray.net · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure they do. You've got to strike the flash drive exactly three times with a nine pound hammer. I assure you, nobody will able to write to it again.

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  2. Re:Give me write-protected flash drives anyday! by geirnord · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doh...

    That's not write protected, that's read-protected!!!

  3. Re:Give me write-protected flash drives anyday! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're right. Ok, to get write-protection, you've got to strike any user attempting to write to your drive exactly three times with a nine pound hammer. I assure you, nobody will want to write to it again.

  4. "Excessive Portable Storage" by rthille · · Score: 2, Funny

    You say that and I think of a C-5A Galaxy full of 2TB drives...

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    1. Re:"Excessive Portable Storage" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Google? Is that you?

  5. Re:Give me write-protected flash drives anyday! by TwistedSymmetry · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's also an excellent form of one-way encryption.

  6. Re:wither plain text? by Applekid · · Score: 4, Funny

    So they could not store documents in plain text?

    You haven't lived until a user emails you a Word document with an embedded screen capture of a pdf viewer viewing a document that once existed as a Word document.

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  7. Re:"Excessive" Storage? by Narnie · · Score: 1, Funny

    Everytime I get my hands on storage I'll "never be able to fill", I usually find that my definition of "never" is not what we see in dictionaries :)

    I tried to explain my definition of "never" to my ex-gf in regards to storage/cheating-on-gf. She wasn't too happy about the 3-4 month time frame.

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  8. Re:The title is right. by Red+Flayer · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is excessive. At home I have my two 160GB Seagate hard drives and an 8GB flash drive which I use when I'm on the go. What tom's has here is extremely overdone. This is just waste.

    Obviously, you have not been collecting porn long enough. Especially HD porn.

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  9. Re:The title is right. by brackishboy · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sadly, replying to this means I can't use a mod point on it, but then there's no entry in the drop-down menu for '+1 Getoffmylawn'.