14 DAY TRIAL // Looks like there is a new portable solid state drive in town, one that is portable and equipped with the latest iteration of the Universal Serial Bus standard.
It is Super Talent that graces, this once, the market of solid state drives with its activity.
What the company built is an external solid state drive, or a series of external of solid state drives depending on how one views it (there are three capacities).
More precisely, the Storage POD Mini (this is the official name) has storage options of 60 GB, 120 GB and 240 GB, respectively.
As expected, the company used embellished sentences when announcing the product, much like everyone else in this segment of the industry does.
That Storage POD Mini is “a portable SSD that will change how you think about external storage” is just one of them.
Prospective buyers can go ahead and make their own opinion on the truth of that bold statement.
We aren't exactly strangers to external, USB 3.0 SSDs, though, but this one is quite fast for its kind, at 260 MB/s.
This is well beyond what any hard disk drive and most USB 3.0 SSDs can do, and it comes in a lighter and more rugged package to boot.
The blue anodized, all-aluminum casing is responsible for the sturdiness of the solid state drive and Super talent even tossed in a read/write switch that protects from unintentional writes.
Unfortunately, even though the official stance is that the newcomer is already shipping, no price was provided.
"Where this design really shines is in the real world performance,” Super Talent states.. “Its onboard processor is able to dramatically accelerate real world performance by compressing your data, in real-time, as it writes and decompresses data as it reads. Your data now uses less space and transfers more efficiently than ever. Backing up your system now takes a fraction of the time it would take on rotating media.”
