OCZ offers up rugged ATV / ATV Turbo USB flash drives

We wouldn't guesstimate that OCZ's newest duo of flash drives were the toughest we've ever seen, but the styling alone is pretty intimidating, we must say. Both drives reportedly tout weatherproof "rubber tread" housings and can withstand being submerged in water, and while the ATV will hum along "at mainstream speeds," the ATV Turbo promises read rates of up to 35MB/per second and write rates of up to 30MB/per second. No official pricing details look to be available just yet, but both iterations should be available shortly in 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB sizes.

[Via SlashGear]

[strider_mt2k @ Sep 12th 2007 7:21AM]

-and then they put a five-cent key chain on it.

[Wwhat @ Sep 12th 2007 8:10AM]

I understand that USB2 in always all implementations won't go even close to fullspeed in real life, it's a pity because it would get attractive once these flashkeys reach 50's in read/write speed.
Does anybody know if the new chipsets that keep getting released like the x35 and amd's offerings etcetera can do anywhere near REAL 480mbit?

Or perhaps they should start releasing firewire/IEEE1394 flashkeys!

[fgpx78 @ Sep 12th 2007 9:42AM]

35MB/s are 280mbit/s. So it is already quite close to the theorical full speed, that would be 51MB/s. But you have to count in errors and controls bit ;)

[Wwhat @ Sep 12th 2007 2:57PM]

Hmm, well 280 isn't THAT close to 480, even if you add 20% overhead you got some space to go, but yeah 50 would be the limit, so I guess they will have to go 1394b or eSATA or something.
Both of which are less demanding on the system too.
I wonder who will be the first, I guess it depends on who slaps together a tiny interface chip to enable such.

[NHAnimator @ Sep 12th 2007 8:27AM]

Geez. The one on the right takes me back to Stryper. Not good.