Mini back-up hard drive
p2p news / p2pnet: Maxtor has released a 2.5-inch password-protected back-up hard drive for $150 for the 60GB version, and $200 for 100GB.
Called the OneTouch III Mini Edition, it’s Maxtor’s first small form factor external storage product, and weighs about seven ounces.
It’s the, "first mobile storage solution in the industry that comes fully loaded with the latest software innovations to protect and manage digital content, including automated backup, data encryption, data synchronization and system rollback to restore applications and operating system while keeping digital files current," says the company.
The hard drive includes Maxtor Sync to automatically synchronize files between two or more computer systems on the same operating platform.
In titanium metallic paint, it comes with black rubber side panels molded to fit above the housing on all sides, providing non-skid "feet" as well as added vibration protection, says Maxtor, adding the OneTouch III includes both software encryption and Maxtor DriveLock, embedded firmware that further restricts data access "should it fall into the wrong hands."
Also See:
OneTouch III – Maxtor Introduces Sleek, Trusted Storage to Go, April 17, 2006
April 18th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
But a 2.5″ drive in a USB enclosure can be had for about $150 for 80GB. These make great ways of carrying your entire music collection and sucking up that of your friends.
With tools like these, file sharing is unstoppable. This isn’t copying the odd CD for your friends. It’s about aggregating the collections of all your friends. And it’s all completely under the radar.
April 18th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Unless they try to file a lawsuit stopping this technology.
April 18th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Items such as the ScanDisk 100-gig key-chains are quite handy too ; )
April 19th, 2006 at 1:14 am
The problem with drives in enclosures is that while they’re on they never spin the disks down. This is bad because one it means they use more power over a whole day, and two because the drives will simply wear out a lot faster than if they got some regular downtime.
Sure if you want to carry your drives around, go the enclosure, but if you want to add some drives to a lan for backup purposes, find an old pc and put some drives in it. The pc can be as slow as all heck, it doesn’t matter, the speed of the lan itself is the major bottleneck. Gigabit may sound fast, but in reality it’s only 120 megabytes per second of raw data, less than 100 megabytes per second of usable data. Assuming nothing else is also on the same lan chewing up the available bandwidth.
Basically as long as the pc has 100meg network adaptor and enough grunt to run the os of choice, it’s a good way to recycle an old pc and some older drives you might otherwise throw out. Even if you never turn that pc off, you can always tell the os installed on it to spin the drives down after a preset period of inactivity and so extend the drives lifespan.
April 19th, 2006 at 4:59 am
100 gig flash memory? Right!! What the hell are you smoking??
April 19th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
That may have been a typo, and yet ……
http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/29/buslinks-64gb-usb-2-0-flash-drive-pro-2-series/
64gb keychain by BUSLink.
The PRICE ain’t quite right yet but …..