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Victorinox squeezes 1TB of high-speed storage into a Swiss Army Knife
- rsobers 15y agoOne thing that appears to be glossed over is how easy this device makes hijacking data from organizations. High-speed, tons of storage, and inconspicuous. This underscores the importance of having proper access controls and alerts in place to identify anomalous data access.
- josefresco 15y agoA pocket knife to some security teams is hardly inconspicuous.
- rsobers 15y agoYeah, I meant from a data loss standpoint; not a stab-you-in-the-face standpoint. Lots of sysadmins carry around pocket knives for various things.
- ErikRogneby 15y agoHas anyone found who the OEM is for the flash drive? Who is their supplier?
- ot 15y agoLooks like it is the smallest 1TB drive in the market, and I can't bring it on an airplane. Sweet.
- ctdonath 15y agoFrom first paragraph: "The device will come equipped with two knife bodies, between which the drive can easily be interchanged with one that is flight-friendly"
- robterrell 15y agoI have an older 1 GB model -- the thumbdrive part can be removed from the knife body (or you'd have this whole knife sticking out of your USB port).
- ctdonath 15y agoWon't (I hope) be long 'til someone offers the 1TB "thumbdrive"* without the baggage (already carry a Benchmade, don't need another in-pocket toybox). Esp. nice having the writable display. * - am amazed that nobody has yet come up with a suitable, consistent, catchy, universally-accepted name for "tiny solid-state data storage device with ubiquitous interface". Anything with "drive" in the name is an anachronism.
- user24 15y agoa lot of people use some variant of 'stick', eg 'thumbstick', 'usb stick'.
- sp332 15y agoIt says the drive can be "easily changed" between two bodies, which means it can also be removed and just stuck in your pocket without a "body".
- agumonkey 15y agoI vote for `memorycard`
- nodata 15y agoMemory card is trademarked by Sony. I've heard the horrible "usb key" used a lot (even though it's not a key). I prefer usb stick.
- agumonkey 15y agoBut "usb stick" is so semantically loose, no mention of data, storage, retention, persistency, memory. Also non persistent, when nobody remembers what USB is, there will be another new lingo like holothumb (yeah cause it will project data holographically right onto your thumbnail so why not). Too bad for memorycard though it was simple and generic enough. Can't we opensource it ~_~ ?
- shabble 15y agoFrom an (incredibly) brief skim of http://www.sony.co.uk/product/rec-memory-stick http://www.sony.co.uk/product/rec-memory-stick, it looks like they have a mark on "Memory Stick", but not necessarily "Memory Card".
- IgorPartola 15y agoThe price tag is a bit prohibitive...
- lylejohnson 15y agoI did not see prices mentioned in the article. Are you just assuming that the prices will be prohibitively high?
- Luc 15y agohttp://www.slashgear.com/victorinox-shows-off-3000-1-terabyte-ssdswiss-army-knife-09208069/ http://www.slashgear.com/victorinox-shows-off-3000-1-terabyt... "The drive won’t be available until August, and a Victorinox associate said that they’re still considering the $3K price."
- IgorPartola 15y agoGizmodo mentions $3,000 as the price point, but re-reading the article, I cannot see where they got it. http://gizmodo.com/5875033/hands-on-with-3000-worth-of-flash-drive http://gizmodo.com/5875033/hands-on-with-3000-worth-of-flash...
- estel 15y agoEven without the $3k quoted elsewhere, the existing prices of SSD harddrives in a much larger form factor should be a good indicator that $3K could easily be on the low-end of pricing.
- sp332 15y agoI don't doubt that you're right, but where do you see a price?
- dhx 15y agoWhich chip are they using? The highest capacity NAND memory on Samsung's website appears to be 256Gbit. Example part number: K9PFGD8U5M (most of the detail is hidden behind an NDA) I doubt they can stack 32 of these chips into the same thumb drive, so what else is out there?
- Tichy 15y agoMaybe it just boots up a small script that books 1TB in cloud storage somewhere :-)
- yatsyk 15y agoor they licensed technology from this hd manufacturer: http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/chinese-fake-hard-drive.html http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/chinese-fake-hard-drive.html :-)
- pieter 15y agoPhysically it should be possible; you have 32GB micro SD-cards, 32 of which take up about 5.3cm^3. That would be about the same as 1.5x5.0x0.7cm, which seems like something that would fit that knife.
- rorrr 15y agoThey are not using any chips. It's vaporware.
- jsolson 15y agoFor the briefest of moments I wanted one of these, but then I remembered what happened to my last pocket knife. - Sent from seat 26D
- ohyes 15y ago"The device will come equipped with two knife bodies, between which the drive can easily be interchanged with one that is flight-friendly and the other includes traditional Swiss Army Knife implements of a blade, scissors, and screw driver."
- wisty 15y agoYeah, but you could still have pirated movies, or unlocked software on the drive, which would make you a pirate and a thought-criminal. And you wouldn't let a pirate on a plane, would you?
- kcima 15y agoYes, and the flight-friendly knife body comes with ear plugs and special container for Xanax pills.
- kabdib 15y agoAnd TSA goons can be depended on to realize it's not an actual knife. "But it says 'Swiss Army' on it." "It's not a knife." "Surrreee. Step this way, please."
- SageRaven 15y agoIsn't it a shame? I once regularly toted my Swiss Army knife on plane trips. I'd toss it into the basket with my keys and wallet and be waved through the metal detector (with shoes still on, mind you), and it was never given a second glance. I've carried that same poor, battered knife daily for almost 25 years now. In fact, I was denied entrance to a New Year's venue this year because I admitted to having a pocket knife on my person and refused to part with it. $60 wasted. WTF? Have we become a society of emasculated pansies that fears little pocket knives?
- Hominem 15y agoMy reaction to this was. Oh, I've seen pocket knives with thumbdrives. Wait does that say 1TB? They can fit 1TB in a tumbdrive??? How long has this been possible?