At CES in 1992, a guy came up to me with a chunk of plastic about the size of a credit card. He declared that, in the future, these things would replace hard drives, and we'd store all our music, pictures, and documents on them for easy retrieval.
The Card Drive U510, from PQI looks like a credit card. Its almost as thin as a credit card, at 3mm. But, unlike your boring ole plastic, this baby can carry up to 16GB of data. Connects to PCs or Macs, and is USB 2.0 compatible
Okay, so it's not quite "all our music, pictures, and documents," but at 16GB it's damn close.
Pricing and availability have not been announced, but it's expected to debut in Korea around the World Cup, with a World Cup design etched into one side.
As far as a lot of people are concerned, it has too many moving parts.
Not me though. I like my storage cheap, and until I can pick up a 300GB flash drive for the same price as a hard drive of the same capacity, I'll pass.
WilWheaton
Los Angeles, CA
June 2005
APR 27, 2006 09:56 AM