link to product All your computer files, in your pocket. The Pockey Portable Drive is small enough to fit in your shirt pocket, plugs into (and is powered by) your computer's USB port, and delivers more capacity for the money than any other similar device. Up to 20 GB of storage, at a cost that's far less than other devices! Save files from your desktop computer in your Pockey drive and take them to business meetings along with your laptop. Even data-rich files like sales presentations, engineering drawings, spreadsheets, and customer databases are no problem. And by accessing files from your Pockey drive, you keep your notebook free of data you don't need to store. Maybe you don't have the problems of a road warrior, but you want an external drive to store and carry digital photos, mp3 files, or even games and movies. Again, Pockey is the answer. Let's review: Pockey gives you small size (5x3x0.5 inch), needs no external A/C power supply, plugs into a USB port, 20 GB capacity, and more storage capacity for the money. And Pockey is both PC and Mac compatible. 20 GB Portable Hard Drive .... $299.95 --
Is it USB 1.1 or USB 2.0? Because USB 2.0 is pretty close to Firewire transfer speeds. EDIT: I guess I wasn't the only person thinking about USB2.0.
sweet, we got a 20GB product and a 48GB product... does anyone know of a portable pocket storage device that holds more than 48 gigs? rH
Can I get just the pencil? I think I need to issue another "NERD ALERT!!!!" If I find someone carrying 48 Gigs of data around in their pocket, then I'm going to turn my pencil on them.
You are stll giving up Drive Size for storage capacity. 5GB is plenty enough for most folk to carry around. The sub-2.5-inch form factor and firewire can't be beat. http://www.csd.toshiba.com/images/ui2/accimgstorage_to_5gb.gif It's also the drive in Apple's iPod.
If it were a USB 2.0 drive, I'd have one. I'm a geek like that. It's not... I looked into these about 3 or so months ago. The transfer rate on the drive is about 1.5 mb/sec. USB 2 it ain't. If they come out with a USB 2 version, I may get it. I'm still thinking about getting the LaCie firewire version.
I just bought a SoundBlaster Audigy the other day -- it comes with a 1394 (Firewire) port on it! I don't know what I'll do with it, but it's nice to have one . . . USB 2.0 looks really good -- the new MSI motherboard has it onboard.
I bought a USB 2.0 card several weeks ago and two of those Maxtor 40GB USB 2.0 external hard drives. They actually work well for capturing digital video.
When I put one of my machines together I decided to get the Audigy simply for that FireWire port. The MSI board on the other machine I built has USB 2 on it. Now all I have to do is wait to find something useful to put on either.
