Wednesday, June 24th 2009
Buffalo Packs 16 GB in Nail-Sized USB Drive
Buffalo announced a new USB flash drive that pushes the limits of how small these drives can get, giving similarly sized flash-storage cards a challenge. The Buffalo RUF2-PS packs up to 16 GB of data in 18 (W) x 18 (H) x 8 (D) mm, and comes in variants of 2, 4, 8, and 16 GB. It is truly feather-weight at 3 g. The drive is so compact that the a couple of these could stay latched on to a notebook even when carrying it around. It uses a standard USB 2.0 interface. Its transfer rates or availability haven't surfaced.
54 Comments on Buffalo Packs 16 GB in Nail-Sized USB Drive
If it didn't have provisions for a lanyard, I'd probably lose it too. I keep a 8GB SDHC/usb adaptor on my keychan and love it. All told, it's about 1/4" longer than this.
I have nothing more to say.
Every un used port filled up with an 16gb drive.
"Nice. Now go make..."
haha
But to give them some props for their current product, quite a few workstation/server level boards are coming with onboard USB ports for Hypervisor storage and the like. Great for that particular situation, as this will no doubt fit into 1U rack cases.
With powered eSATA, the possibilities open up even more!
but I bet you I'll leave it on my schools PC and forget to take it home...