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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. G-raid mini by Space+cowboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've been using a G-RAID mini for a year or so. The drive I have is only 500GB, but it's fast (for a portable drive) because of the RAID.

    There's a 1TB drive coming out soon - see the 'mini-2', which looks to be $699 before any discount (I got ~25% on the mini IIRC).

    G-Raid is also a *lot* more reliable than Lacie, in my experience but I guess YMMV, one view is not statistically relevant etc. etc.

    Simon

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  2. Re:Give me write-protected flash drives anyday! by MoonBuggy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do you mean USB sticks with little write-protect tabs like floppies? They do exist, you know - I have one somewhere. Admittedly it's a bit old and thus only 128MB, but the functionality is there nonetheless.

    A quick bit of Googling reveals that PQI still makes them in more useful capacities, and that they retain the write-protect tab. They're even still the same colour!

  3. Re:Lacie - No Incrimental Backup? Seriously? by theJML · · Score: 3, Informative

    tar, cpio, and dump do incremental backups... and they're easily scheduled with cron jobs...

    Just saying...

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