Look, we feel your pain. There's about a gazillion options when it comes to
portable hard drives, but the IDrive Portable actually does differentiate itself from the masses in one particularly useful way. Aside from being the "thinnest and lightest portable USB drive in its class," this 0.3 pound unit houses 320GB of space on a 5,400RPM HDD, and it plays nice with Windows / OS X machines. Predictably, it features a one-click backup option for storing precious data outside of your PC, but unlike the other guys, this one also includes the ability to backup online for yet another layer of protection. Of course, that online bit will run you up to $4.95 per month, but we have to say the interface looks pretty swank. Anywho, the device itself is listed as shipping within one to two days for $119.95, and all the nitty-gritty about the services is tucked away in the read link.
[Thanks, Chris]
posted Feb 5th 2009 5:08PM
7200 please.
From their website "FAST 5400 RPM hard drive 24% faster than 4200 RPM drives"
For all those large capacity 4200 drives I have laying around...
Oh yes, what a great idea! Let's shake the HD based storage, shall we?
what about my pain at the name? all these companies need to quite it with the iCrap already.
And it starts with i. Did we mention we're Engadget?
Actually, it starts with I. Darren Murph seems to have Apple on the brain. Nowhere on their site do they call it the 'iDrive', only the 'IDrive'.
You drive?
Ow! My i! You poked my i!!!
We know you are iEye because you and iEye are the only people in the world who say "SHITE!"
Oh, and Apple can't sue them, they didn't come up with the "i" prefix, that was Intel.
Ok, my data is backed up on the portable drive... let's see.... the online backup will be done by...(carry the 2...) March 24th!
true... it can take a while... but anyone (like me) can do this (does this) already with any webserve, and lots of webserves (like Hostpapa.ca) are just as cheap for practically unlimited space, PLUS you get your own domain name...
not really sure why engadget thinks this device is in a class of it's own...
Not to mention you will be able do back-up online exactly once before your internet provider shuts you down for using up too much monthly bandwidth.
Clickfree FTW!
I wonder when we as a nation (and world) are going to move past this whole putting "i(I)" in front of EVERYTHING!! It's seriously ridiculous.
Apple products started it....cool beans. Lets move on.
iDrive, iShovel, i-Limb bionic arm, i-Turtle, idog, ilife, imovie, iprint, iphoto. ishould probably shut up. imean icould go on and on and on.
I have one of those cases, only in silver. Cost $4 off ebay from china. free shipping.
Yeah i have a few as well, they are nice for the junk HD i pull from non working laptops (like 10-30Gb drives)
The Online Backup STARTS at $4.95/month.
Why is this news? There are already drives out there that do this same exact thing and have been doing so for a while now, and engadget's even covered them back in October of 2007: http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/fabrik-launches-simpletech-pro-drives-online-backup-service/
This just looks like a repainted Phillips enclosure?
it's not always the product.. sometimes it's the Target Market. I have used iDrive for quite a while now. Not just for myself but for all my Home & SMB clients.
It's quite superior to many other products in that TM.
very funny
that case can be found on ebay for $7 and the software is free on their website. what is this nonsense!
It's been there for ages as an online backup and storage service. I actually have used it before to backup some vital data and it's pretty nifty. Free for 2GB as well.
oh I have that hard drive case - get it in Hong Kong for 2.5 USD
tada! smallest and thinnest of it's class!