PQI Releases Hot Looking USB 3.0 SSD Drive
PQI releases a pair of ruby USB external drives today. Clicking theses sparkling red slippers together may not get you back to Kansas but it also won't ruin your drive. These babies are SSDs, and it will take more than flying monkeys to shock these drives. The larger of the pair is also the faster sporting USB 3.0 interface and faster SSD memory. The MLC flash within the PQI S533-E can read at 236MB/s and write at 86 MB/s. In contrast, the S532-E has both mini-USB 2.0 and SATA-II for both internal and external use. The Turbo HDD USB software also helps both USB SSD drives boosting greater speeds and is likely similar in function to Buffalo's TurboUSB drivers.
The PQI S533-E is USB 3.0 capable but is still USB 2.0 compatible. You can get the S533-E in either 80 or 160 GB capacities while the S532-E is only available in 40GB. If you are in need of some portable shock resistant storage that is a real piece of eye candy this is definitely an option. Details on release date and price aren't clear yet. You'll likely have to wait at least a few months for these to hit shelves. There are other readily available USB 3.0 SSDs on the market, including the Enyo from OCZ and SHD-PEHU3 from Buffalo.
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Yanko Concrete Flash Drive Concept Brings New Meaning to Mass Storage
Warning heavy use of puns ahead, heavy. Another unusual flash drive design from the stylish dreamers at Yanko. Today, they beat down our doors with a flash drive that could be a very nice doorstop. Fashioned out of everyday concrete, the drive's weight in grams matches its capacity in gigabytes. The brick shaped drive doesn't need any drivers, it will show up on modern OSs as a mass storage drive. Even though it is designed to be bulky, the drive looks like it might be a little large to be comfortable to plug and unplug. This concrete flash drive might look and actually ACT like a parking stop for your other peripherals. The heft of this drive might also act as a security feature, if someone tries to steal your laptop, throw this at them.
If they scaled down these drives in size instead of just concentrating on tipping the scales. They could keep the proportional weight and turn this into a really useful tactile sorting feature. You would be able to find the right drive just by its heft without having to see it. They seem to be planning to prototype drives of 64, 128 and 256 GB which would be pretty expensive as 64 GB drives are at the top end of the consumer price point. We wonder how rugged a drive made of concrete is? Could it withstand all that we put the Corsair Flash Voyager GTR through? As with many of their designs, very few actually make it to market. We'll have to wait patiently to see if they get picked up by a manufacturer. Let's hope they remember to lift with their knees and not their backs.
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