1TB SSD Crammed Into Swiss Army Knife, Costs $3000
Pack all that you need to survive for an entire weekend in your pocket.
Nothing says “I’m a survivalist” like a pocketknife. But we’re hard pressed to think of a disaster scenario where you might need a two blades, scissors, a screw driver, a file AND 1 terabyte of SSD data storage (capacities of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB are also available). Nonetheless, that’s what the venerable Victorinox (Swiss Army) brand is offering, among other things, at CES this year. The memory stick itself connects to both USB 3.0 and eSATA ports, and features a 96x48-pixel display that can help you keep track of what is stored on the drive (and how much space has been used). It's decently speedy too, with a read speed of 220MB/s and a write speed of 150MB/s.
The 1TB version will sell for $3,000 later this year.
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epic crammage!
Where is the blades the scissor and screwdriver :[
Where is the blades the scissor and screwdriver :[
as pictures in the ssd =]
Oh boy do I WANT..
Except 3k is well.. you know.. A "LITTLE" too much. Just a "LITTLE" -.-
$3000? Expensive "knife"...
I dropped my usb in the wash several times it lived.. I don't ev- $3k...
1TB
so boss :>
Sounds cost efficient.
I think they put the decimal in the wrong place...wishful thinking.
still sounds cheaper than the current price-fixed hdds
still sounds cheaper than the current price-fixed hdds
orly now?
still sounds cheaper than the current price-fixed hdds
some amount inflated price no reason, some amount is general need to recup some money lost in the flood.
the peoeple screwing us on the price is the retail
the newer drive with the reduced warranties cost far less than the older drives... though thats not much good news... the cheapest ones with a decent warranty are 450$ but those are enterprise.
anyone know why enterprise cost so much? better parts, better features, or just because they can cost more because enterprise support and such?
that said, i really want to know how big the knife is, how they fit 1tb in that small area, it kind of looks like they broke pcb and wired them together to do it, which is awesome... but still doesnt look like it has 1tb worth of chips in it.
anyone i really want to know the dementions of a ssd chip, the silicon, not the black outside, i want to do the math to figure out about how much is made per silicon wafer, and how much it really costs to make, if its them jacking it up for no reason or if its a legitimate price.
I believe that's just absolutely amazing!
I'd love to get 64/128GB of 100MB/s+ memory on my phone, and $3/GB is a price I'd probably pay.
damn man... earlier they crammed a whole pc into a usb stick sized container with gpu,cpu, ram and little bit of memory that has ports only for monitor, usb.. simple stuff.. and now this?? man where is this world going to???
doesn't pass on airport scanners.
Just hope you don't lose it...
Neat but ouch on the price. At-least it serves as a glimpse into the future onto what is to come however.
Mother of god...
SSD? shouldnt this be considered a flash drive?
"The 1TB version will sell for $3,000 later this year."
Really?
The writer of this article thinks that "it will sell" that that price?
LOL
If it has a knife in it you can not take it aboard an aircraft. There goes the report you wanted to work on while flying from LA to NY.
Still, this thing is übercool; if only the price... yeah, we know, it will come down eventually.
Sadly it won't work like in movies, copy all information in 30 seconds.
if you want to copy lots of spy stuff it still gona take you hour to copy that video of senator banging hooker, he wanted it HD 1080p lol
SSD? shouldnt this be considered a flash drive?
if it has an ssd core, than yea, its a exturnal ssd device.
From the website it looks like you can get one without knives included.
If they can fit 1TB into that small of a space; why aren't we seeing 20, 30TB 3.5" SSDs for desktops, and why aren't they at affordable prices? Maybe I'm crazy but it just blows my minds that they can make it now but we won't be up to amounts like this realistically til years down the road. It's almost as if companies release it more slowly so they can milk it for each 'tier' of data as much as possible. I feel the same way about cell phones though, it seems like the technology has been there all along but they're taking baby steps toward the consumer.
And if anyone's wondering "why would you even need that much data?" well I would have to say getting away from data compression completely, lossless or no, would be a really nice change of pace.
as pictures in the ssd =]
The pictures shown use the optional holder. If you buy the drive it does come as an attachment in a red Swiss army knife, along with all the other Swiss army goodies. I don't know why toms only has the optional holder shown, and not the original.
you mean i can carry my whole porn collection in my pocket?
It is a little insane but, as stated, it's a fair enough price considering. Sure, it says it'll retail for 3k (and it probably will) but that's simply a price they're slapping on it. Do you really think they're going to mass produce these? No. Is it a standard item essential for a PC to operate? No. Therefore, in computing terms, it's a luxery item. Luxery items usually cost more. Again, this is still fairly new technology and therefore, it's going to cost a buttload.
I don't understand where this self-entitlement crap comes from. As if we're entitled to get these items at a cheaper cost simply because we're all too financially aware that this is a bank breaker. If it's too expensive, then don't get it. I bet you don't go into a BMW dealership and complain that Ford is selling a car cheaper, therefore, you deserve to get a BMW cheaper 'just because.' It's a luxery item.
As for the technology being there; It's been there for years! SSDs have been around long before they went mainstream. Making crap fit into smaller places is what these companies specialize in now a days. Just because they CAN do it, doesn't mean they should. You wanna know why? Because it cost a buttload and this complaining about the prices is something they're trying to avoid.
Use your brains, people.
The awkward moment when your terabyte ssd becomes a murder weapon.
uh, so... 1tb = 3000, your proposed 30tb drive would run $90,000. That's affordable to you?
"For collecting only." All these random innovations are starting to make my head spin. They are really cool... but they make me feel poorer and poorer. Hopefully some pretty BA security features will be added.
it costs an arm and a leg