Fabrik intros colorful new SimpleTech Signature Mini USB drives

Those looking for something that'll stand out a little more than your run-of-the-mill external hard drive now have a slew of new options to consider from Fabrik, which has once again teamed with Italian design firm Pininfarina on some of its SimpleTech-branded drives. Dubbed the Signature Mini, the drives are available in your choice of seven different colors and 120GB, 160GB, 250GB or 320GB capacities, although each color is not available in each size. Taking things one step further, each drive comes with 2GB of free online backup space, and optional unlimited online backup for $5 a month, each options of which employ 448-bit Blowfish encrypted servers to keep your data safe. Look for the whole lot to be available sometime next month for between $110 and $230, although Mac users will have to wait until later in Q1 in order to take advantage of the online backup options.

[RazorD @ Jan 8th 2008 3:43PM]

Sounds very much like they're going to be a Mozy OEM - the exact same pricing and setup - and waiting for Mac Mozy to come out of Beta (we're on 0.9.0.0 now, so it must be soon!) before launching that.

[RazorD @ Jan 8th 2008 3:48PM]

Confirmed: The registration page is on fabrikhome.oem.berkeleydata.com, which is Mozy's original parent before they were bought by EMC. Nice to see more companies are realising how awesome mozy is!

[Ed @ Jan 9th 2008 3:38AM]

It could be 2-billion bit death-star fish encryption protecting it, and it won't make any difference if the company itself controls the encryption keys to it.

Then it's just one Patriot Act away from being decrypted.

It's like calling an encrypted communication system with a key escrow implementation "secure" or "private". It's neither.

Try encrypting the data on your own machine and then transferring to it an online backup afterwards.