Brando's Paper Storage Box inconspicuously hides your HDDs
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 3rd 2009 5:42PM
posted Jun 3rd 2009 5:42PM
posted Jun 3rd 2009 5:42PM
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could use a fan or 6
wait, you mean its just a cardboard box? its not a dock? lol.
Wow... best invention ever.
so....where can i buy one??
I think this is pretty sweet!
raw food detox
Don't tell the thiefs, but I hide my HDDs inside of my computer
The files are IN the computer??!
genius.
to freaking funny I can't believe no one got that.
Zoolander is it not.
Zoolander FTW!
*blinks*
If you're using one of the external adapters that lets you plug in a Hard Drive, I could see this having Some use.
I guess in that case it would beat having them just lying on the desk.
This is actually pretty useful for labs/workrooms where extra drives would otherwise be stacked on top of each other.
Exactly so -- and Brando sells lots of those HDD Docks.
That's actually kind of neat.
Without the cover, they're not hidden very well.. and they're already packed neatly in a box for the taking.
Excellent invention... A box! Say, what's the possibility of someone ripping off this invention and selling other boxes? Bigger ones that store 10, 20 even 100?
(why would anyone keep FIVE important drives in the same place??)
Oh, and assuming that your data is going to get stolen, not burn in a fire.
They have ones that can hold any of those sizes...they're called boxes ;p
All it needs is "Broken Hard Drives" written on the side. Who would bother stealing broken hard drives?
Following complaints that the original HDD Paper Storage Box did not offer enough protection from coffee spills, the marketing team spent a grueling two weeks to come up with alternative designs. Now, Brando has released a new and improved version of their storage solution.
From the link: "Now, it comes with cover and more protection."
$7 well spent.
For best results, place box right beside your monitor, in plain view, and make sure it takes up as much usable desk space as possible.
I'm sorry, I really should stop posting about this, but... it's just too easy... clicking around on their website, I actually found out that they DID have the original HDD Paper storage box.
The original box was coverless, and cost $13. I guess they had to come up with something else when they discovered that demand for a $13 HDD cardboard box wasn't exactly where they hoped it would be.
Yeah, that's really smart storing your backup drives next to the drive box. I would worry less about theft than damage . My backup drives ARE kept in a fireproof safe and rotated on a weekly basis.
I realise that this isn't relevant to the original post/box (which is "Made by cardboard" as well as made out of cardboard, according to the product page), but a quick google shows that fireproof/resistant storage is reasonably affordable. Which I did not know.
https://www.hddfiresafe.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=47&osCsid=fd6912f43cdd6025d117478d64db7ec2
Nice Shuttle SN27P2.
"'Cause really, what data thief is going to shuffle through a cardboard container looking for valuable platters?"
The ones that read Engadget, that's what.
Or Brando's website. :)
But regular (/opportunistic) thieves *are* going to look in it, so good luck hiding these from them... Fireproof safe ftw!
What a ripoff! Apple came out with boxes a long time ago. And as we know, iBoxes are superior to everything else.
I think the box should have a sticker that reads STOLEN because nobody wants to steal stolen.
You guys couldn't wait till Computex was over? Now I'm only going to be met with disappointment when I compare everything to this must have gadget of the year.
Brando should stick to mutilating thirst.
I actually don't think it's stupid.
I look about my room and there's old computer bits lying about.
Old 20Gig hard drives sitting on bookshelves.
So, it makes sense. If I'm not going to throw them out, put 'em in a box.
Not a $7 box admittedly.
It would make sense in some office IT guys bits-and-pieces cupboard.
I always put mine in too large a box, and then the box falls off the shelf. And used hard drives dont generally enjoy a five foot drop, so a properly designed box might actually be nice.
Unfortunately for them, the show a picture of the cardboard prefolded. I'm going to use these plans to make my own harddrive storage boxes that thieves would be even more likely to pass over!
It's so damn simple. Now where's the actual dock so you can use them all?
I'll wait for a version with more "bays" before plunking down my hard-earned dollars.
I can't believe I'm spending my time reading this "news" about this "product" on engadget. Fellow readers, it's time for a moment of introspection-what decisions did we make in our life that have lead to this point, this moment where we find ourselves reading about the introduction of a cardboard box to the marketplace. Was it the lack of love in our childhoods? That fateful day on the playground in 3rd grade? Or was it the way your first marriage ended and broke you forever?
Dark days indeed, but the light is at the end of the tunnel-hang in there and surely soon we will be spending our time doing something slightly less depressing.
at what point did we start reading the comments on such a post? Posting comments? OMG: replying to others' comments...
This is certainly environmentally friendly!
They could have gone a step further and add SATA ports on the bottom to turn this into a badass RAID
I'm sure someone could mod that.
What Daniel said. Have it set up for a RAID and then I'd consider it.
Hey, someone had to invent it. Wait a minute...
Just add a SATA port and we're good.
Does this invention have a patent to go with it?
This is a must for recession antidote
iPhone killer!!!
...unless it's put out from Verizon, in which case they'll strip it of the good stuff and add crap things like VBox and VCardboard.
And they'll paint it red and black.
Damn you verizon!
wait, so it's not even a SATA to USB adapter . . it's a box . . . . . AWESOME!!