Buffalo's external 32GB and 64GB SSDs can swap insides with your Eee PC's original drive

Sure, you could look at it as crass commercialism, but we choose to see the softer, gentler side of Buffalo in this act of kindness: buy a new SSD upgrade for your ASUS Eee PC 901-16G and Buffalo will toss in a free chassis to hold your existing 16GB drive. The 32GB and 64GB drives will run you $129 and $228, respectively, and actually ship inside the external drive -- you don't have to swap SSDs if you don't want to, but we like the option. We would, anyways, if we lived in Japan.

[Via PortableMonkey]

Buffalo's external 32GB and 64GB SSDs for Eee PC

[swimatm Posted Mar 13th 2009 3:30PM]

Looks Cool

[Mike Cerm Posted Mar 13th 2009 3:32PM]

Why bother with this giant thing when you can pick up a 16GB USB thumb drive for $20 that fits on your keychain?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 3:36PM]

Because this way you can accually use the drive you swap out. Otherwise you would have a 16gb ssd doing nothing.

[viper24 Posted Mar 13th 2009 3:37PM]

...speeeeeeeed

[spasewalkr Posted Mar 13th 2009 3:38PM]

but doesn't the usb bus kill the point of an ssd?

[Mike Cerm Posted Mar 13th 2009 3:54PM]

The transfer rates of SSDs in EeePCs aren't any faster than typical flash drives, and they're well below the maximum USB speed.

I guess that it's nice that you are able to keep using the original SSD, but really can't imagine a situation where you'd want to. Everyone and their mother has a flash drive on their keychain already. No one is actually going to carry around a slow 16GB SSD in a box (and a USB cable).

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 4:18PM]

I think the article is saying that the device shown outside the laptop is the old drive whereas the new SSD is in the laptop. Sounds like a good deal/idea.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 6:02PM]

except it is from Buffalo which means costly and will break pretty soon

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2009 10:40AM]

Bobby you talk nonsense, Buffalo have the best price for hard-drive since long time and the quality is very good. I have 3 tb from buffalo and no problem at all. The company I worked before had all there server and external HD of the buffalo brand and none have break. Its as good as another company but cheaper.

There is some few cheap stuff from buffalo like skype headphone but for everything HD, its very good.

I live in japan by the way... I dont think there is a lot of buffalo products outside though.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 3:34PM]

It's just me that think it's a strange fact that this isn't shaped as a buffalo head?

[FNG Posted Mar 13th 2009 3:54PM]

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I just wanted to say high to your sweet avatar...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 3:38PM]

"softer, gentler side" of a gadget with the name BUFFALO?

[Grizz Posted Mar 13th 2009 3:48PM]

Could you also put this in a Dell Mini 9?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 3:51PM]

If the mini have a socketable SSD card, I can't see why not ;)

[Grizz Posted Mar 13th 2009 4:19PM]

Dell mini 9 has a Mini PCI Express PCI-e SSD

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 5:07PM]

I wish... But as stated the Dell Mini uses a 'half-size' design. The Eee SSD is too long (that's what she said) and will not work. Buffalo does made SSD's for the Mini, but are still only available in Japan.

[limaxray Posted Mar 13th 2009 3:59PM]

I just want to point out that these drives are SLOW - 34 MB/s read, 28 MB/s write.

If you want to upgrade the SSD in your Eee, I HIGHLY recommend checking out one of RunCore's *SATA* PCIe SSD offerings. They are by far the fastest I've seen - 125 MB/s read, 95 MB/s write - and are relatively cheap too. They have 16, 32, 64, and 128 GB models. I recently got one for my 900A and it is honestly worth every penny for the performance and storage boost.

[brotato Posted Mar 13th 2009 4:15PM]

Ive got a 16GB Runcore in my 900A and I also agree its totally worth it. It also has a micro usb port on it so you can pull the ssd out and plug it into another computer.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 4:17PM]

USB means this is pointless, but Firewire would have been another story.. or E-Sata

[superhobo Posted Mar 13th 2009 4:41PM]

So, what's new?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 5:49PM]

I bought a Western Digital 500GB /Go External Hard Drive for my desk top, can I use this as my main OS instead of the oroginal OS 288GB on my PC, How does this work ?

[Mushrooshi Posted Mar 13th 2009 11:54PM]

OS? What?

This has nothing to do with the article, but you need to swap the drives (voids your warranty), and then you need to reinstall your Operating System.

Given you called it an "OS", I advise you not do this, and get a more tech savvy person to do it for you.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2009 10:42AM]

I think its a good idea, we always need another 16gb around when our 500gb HD is full of torrents.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 15th 2009 5:19PM]

Does Buffalo's external 32GB and 64GB SSDs can be used at ASUS A8Series ?