There are very specific uses for drives like this, I'm one of the people who would benefit.
My work often involves having to transfer 10GB+ HD video renders from work PC to home PC.. takes a hell of a long time to transfer... speed is limited by disk I/O on the firewire drive I use.
It's basically for people who need to move data around often, not as bulk storage... terabytes of space aren't need when you're only keeping the data on there for a couple of hours.
The benefit over esata is not requiring a seperate power connection, one less thing to plug in and one less bulky power supply to carry around.
I can see myself picking up a 32GB one of these in a year or so. The prices aren't that bad compared to the cost of internal SSD's.
Thinking of other uses, one of these could even work as a primary boot drive. It's fast enough... install an OS of your choice, plug it into any PC you need to use, hit the hotkey for selecting boot device and away you go.
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There are very specific uses for drives like this, I'm one of the people who would benefit.
My work often involves having to transfer 10GB+ HD video renders from work PC to home PC.. takes a hell of a long time to transfer... speed is limited by disk I/O on the firewire drive I use.
It's basically for people who need to move data around often, not as bulk storage... terabytes of space aren't need when you're only keeping the data on there for a couple of hours.
The benefit over esata is not requiring a seperate power connection, one less thing to plug in and one less bulky power supply to carry around.
I can see myself picking up a 32GB one of these in a year or so. The prices aren't that bad compared to the cost of internal SSD's.
Thinking of other uses, one of these could even work as a primary boot drive. It's fast enough... install an OS of your choice, plug it into any PC you need to use, hit the hotkey for selecting boot device and away you go.