A Look at Excessive Portable Storage

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.

Comments

Re:Give me write-protected flash drives anyday!

[palegray.net]

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.

Re:Give me write-protected flash drives anyday!

[geirnord]

Doh...

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

Re:Give me write-protected flash drives anyday!

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

"Excessive Portable Storage"

[rthille]

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

Re:Give me write-protected flash drives anyday!

[TwistedSymmetry]

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

Re:wither plain text?

[Applekid]

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.

Re:The title is right.

[Red Flayer]

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.