Buffalo launch 100 GB USB SSD portable drive
December 19th, 2007
It seems that never a day goes by without a storage manufacturer claiming a new larger storage unit. Today’s manufacturer is Buffalo with the 100 GB SHD-UHR100GS SSD, along with two lesser siblings, 32 and 64 GB models.
The claims, as usual for SSD manufacturers, is a physical space saving, a power sucking reduction and size. Although we couldn’t get our hands on any specific dimensions, it’s alleged that this little puppy is the size of a business card and unless USB ports have leapt in size over night, that estimation is about right given the photo above. Buffalo are also claiming a 70% power saving over their HD-PHGU2 HDD series, a bonus for all of us laptop users aching for a portable drive. As for weight this baby weighs in at a mere 60g, a mere nothing even in world of portable hardware.
The downside? Ah well, to become the proud owner of a super-slim SHD-UHR100GS, your wallet needs to be weighed down with US$952. The 32 GB version rocks in at $312, whilst the 64 GB has a price tag of $665. So these suckers aren’t cheap, but 100 GB the size of business card, what price can you put on that!
Source: engadget
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I can see why people pay the extra for an SSD when it’s internal, but for now, a 64GB Flash drive makes much better sense.
Who needs such high performance from an external disk? Also USB2 is very restrictive on this front, so really it’s just an attempt to pay for some further research by getting rich bling merchants excited over nothing
Good luck to them
YOU ARE RIGHT THEY HAVE 32 GB USB FLASH DRIVES SOO A 64 GB USB FLASH DRIVE SHOULD COME OUT SOON A EXTERNAL SSD DRIVE DOSE NOT MAKE MUCH SENSE SSD SOLID STATE DRIVE SHOULD BEEN PUT IN THE NEXT GENERATED GAMING CONSOLES SOO THE SSD SOLID STATE DRIVE WILL FLOOD THE MARKET IN LARGE NUMBERS.