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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. Video and Photographers by Samschnooks · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is a wet dream for photographers and film makers!

  2. Re:Another way of doing it.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Some stuff is too large or numerous to fit on just a laptop

    You can get half-terabyte laptop drives for just over $100 each, and 17" or larger laptops can take 2 drives. What files are you using that take up more than a terabyte?

  3. "Excessive" Storage? by blcamp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's no such thing.

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    1. Re:"Excessive" Storage? by lofoforabr · · Score: 3, Insightful

      There's no such thing.

      That's something I learned during my years with computers. 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 :)

    2. Re:"Excessive" Storage? by Lord+Ender · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yeah, "hours of uncompressed 1080p video" really is the most important storage metric now, and there are no products which provide enough of that for any conceivable scenario.

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  4. Re:What is the point of the LaCie drive? by Space+cowboy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if you use it like I use my G-Raid-mini, taking it with you as the storage for your portable when on photography trips, you'd be the one with the backache, and I'd be strolling around with .5T in my jacket pocket.

    Same old fallacy: Just because *I* can't use it means that *you* can't use it. Just not true...

    Simon

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  5. Re:The title is right. by DarkOx · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Welcome to the IT industry as a whole for the last 5 years or so. Rather then devote even once moment of mental energy into deciding what to keep and what will never be needed again, or if {insert} is really the most efficent algorithm we just throw hardware at it.

    IT is no fun any more it used to be about finding good solutions to problems; now its just about waste because you can also buy faster/denser hardware cheaper then you can pay someone to use their head.

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