Apr 01
The most hated Star Wars character ever is coming to a USB port near you. For reals this time.
Feb 18
We wouldn’t have foreseen thumb drives figuring prominently into our President’s Day observations, and yet… here we are. In sync with the holiday, Mimoco has kicked off a US Presidents collection of Mimobot storage that lets Americans carry their national pride on their USB 2.0 ports. Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are the only current options — what, no William Henry Harrison model? — but the 8GB to 64GB of capacity should keep either stick useful once the novelty wears off. As long as you’re prepared to spend between $20 to $130 to pick one up, either of the Mimobots is a decent choice for a drive. Just hurry if you want a flash-based replica of the country’s key founder — there’s only 1,000 Washington drives to go around.
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Sep 17
What’s this? Just another USB 3.0 thumbdrive at IDF 2012? Not quite. You’re looking at Kingston’s DataTraveler Workspace, a storage device that incorporates bona fide SSD technology not usually found in thumbdrives — like a bunch of ultra speedy flash memory and a SandForce controller that supports TRIM and S.M.A.R.T commands. As such, it shares more in common with Kingston’s line of SSDs. It’s not really designed for data storage — instead, it’s meant to be used as a certified Windows To Go fixed drive, “a fully manageable corporate Windows 8 workspace on a specially configured, bootable USB drive”.
The idea is that corporate IT can deploy these thumbdrives to employees who can then run a secure, managed instance of Windows on a variety of PCs with a bootable USB 2.0 (or faster) port. Another interesting feature of Windows To Go is that Kingston’s DT Workspace thumbdrives can be removed for up to 1 minute without crashing Windows — the OS simply alerts the user to “keep the USB drive plugged in” and continues where it left off. Pricing remains a mystery, but the device will be available for business customers in 32, 64 and 128GB capacities when Windows 8 launches. Until then, you’re invited to peek at the gallery below and to watch our hands-on video past the break.
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Aug 27
The USB “Thumb” drive is back!
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Back in 2005 the Japanese company SolidAlliance introduced a wide range of crazy USB Disks including the Sushi Disk Series but also the “Thumb” USB Disk that replicate a human thumb… 7 years later this rather unique USB Thumb disk is back in Japan but this time thanks to Green-House Japan!
While the 2005 Version was sporting a cool 128MB Flash Memory the 2012 edition come by default with 4GB of memory and is of course only available in Japan or if you are lucky enough via …
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