Iomega Reveals USB 3.0 External SSD

[exfileme]

Iomega's rugged external SSD will ship next month.

Iomega Reveals USB 3.0 External SSD : Read more

 

[mrubermonkey]

Finally, a rugged SSD.

 

[harth13]

pricy

 

[applegetsmelaid]

Krivens.

 

[aevm]

A card that inserts into the USB 2.0 port and gives you a full-speed USB 3.0 port at the other end??? Sounds unlikely, but it would be cool if true. I would love to hear more about this part, maybe see a link.

Anyway, there are $40 cards you insert in PCI-E x1 ports to get two USB 3.0 ports.

 

[ansemx324]

why would you honestly need solid state drive speeds for an external drive that small? SSD's are really only worth the money right now if you're using it as a boot drive and taking advantage of the performance...moving whatever data to an external drive that costs 5x more than anything else isnt' worth it, especially when esata does comparable speeds

 

[Thunderfox]

Iomega is still around? What have they been doing since Zip drives died out a decade ago?

 

[TeKEffect]

damn sounded really good until I read the $750 price tag

 

[dEAne]

wow but still the price is not impressive.

 

[Scanlia]

[citation][nom]aevm[/nom]A card that inserts into the USB 2.0 port and gives you a full-speed USB 3.0 port at the other end??? Sounds unlikely, but it would be cool if true. [/citation]
That's great idea! You could have a USB 3.0 adapter that plugs into 2 USB 2.0 ports, or maybe even 3... I'd buy it anyway...

 

[soundping]

Just wait it will get better.

 

[theoutbound]

Steep price, but it's a step in the right direction. Hopefully we will get some larger capacities and prices will drop soon.

 

[Guest]

Two comments:
1 - Not interested until the price for SSDs is more like $1 per GByte.

2 - I hope IOmega is a different company than the one from years ago. The Biomedical company I work for now got burned badly, years ago, when IOmega removable drives were destroying themselves and the data. What a mess that was.

 

[Guest]

In reply to why you would need this: virtual machines baby! Virtual Machines!!