SanDisk FlashBack ExpressCard adapter enables continuous backups onto SD cards

Oh sure, there's a million and one ways to rightfully cram an SD card into an ExpressCard slot, but does your current multicard reader provide continuous backups out-of-the-box? SanDisk is certainly hoping not, as it's waving its nifty FlashBack Adapter around at CeBIT and boasting of its ability to "automatically and continuously back up and encrypt critical data onto an SD flash memory card." Put simply, this device enables you to access the recent copies of your most important files should your system crash or become doused with any number of liquids while working. On a positive note, this thing will indeed play nice with SDHC cards; unfortunately, it's made to work seamlessly with Windows only. Still, you suits out there can snap one up in Q2 for $29.99 and simultaneously vaporize any hope of using computer failure as an excuse for not doing work.

[Marty @ Mar 4th 2008 9:01AM]

Hopefully it fits flush with most laptops.

[chris hanson @ Mar 4th 2008 9:03AM]

this is perfect i store all my super important files on a sd card

[Flashpoint @ Mar 4th 2008 9:04AM]

If you have a high capacity HCSD card, can you store VISTA on it and run it off the card - and then save everything you do in Vista to the card?

[Clete R. Blackwell II @ Mar 4th 2008 9:25AM]

Or you could just get an SSD if you were to do that, Flashpoint.

At any rate, it looks like it is nearly flush or even flush to most laptops (by my amazingly observant eyes on a thumbnail ;) ).

Looks like a cool device.

[Artoo @ Mar 4th 2008 12:49PM]

Windows only?? Who the hell uses Windows for business activities??????

[momotarosan @ Mar 4th 2008 1:01PM]

hmmm...someone can swoop my most important data by removing the SD even if my laptop is locked down.

[Jeremy @ Mar 4th 2008 1:08PM]

you could probably use it w/ readyboost... not that i'd know b/c i've already ditched vista and gone back to xp, but it might make it a bit faster?