During the lead up to CES today, Victorinox is unveiling a new line of mobile SSD drives with capacities up to 1 terabyte. Victorinox is best known for their Swiss Army knives, but in recent years has added USB flash drives to their product lineup.
Fittingly, the new Victorinox SSD drives could perhaps be best described as the Swiss Army knives of mobile storage. They offer USB 2, USB ... [ read the full article ]
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This is kind of exciting to see. First that storage of such size is increasing. Second it seems great when companies adapt and make themselves relevant in modern/current times.
I think besides the obvious price that might be a little prohibitive at first, i'm just curious what the read/write speeds and max concurrent operations will be.
On another note...........nothing like having a handy dandy Swiss Army Knife that has a flash drive for when you're computing deep in a cave or on the top of a mountain right????
Strange if i get a 1TB SSD for a PC you can get one for $500 (US) on newegg right now... Checking for Victorinox on the web i found the price for the 1TB SSD (seems to be a USB flash drive connection) will go for $3000.00 (US). Might be me but seems like full of fail unless Victorinox changes there pricing. On top of that, looking at the picture, they are set in a swiss army knife holder, not rally practical from what i see.
$3000 for a 1TB SSD drive... I just felt my right testicle shoot up behind my molars! It's going to take 2 Vicodin, a beer & a lot of gentle swallowing to get that bad boy back to where it belongs...
I dont even know why someone would need that much space on a mobile device for. Unless they had a sh$t load of movies they wanted to watch on their phone.
Originally posted by Dmite30: I dont even know why someone would need that much space on a mobile device for. Unless they had a sh$t load of movies they wanted to watch on their phone.
Easy for me to see someone would have that much space, a "small" database for me is 500Gb.
