Would You Spend $3000 on a 1TB SSD Swiss Army Knife?
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Victorinox, the maker of Swiss Army products, was at the Digital Experience media event during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and we stopped by their booth to see what the new products were. On display were the companies new line of Victorinox Slim 3.0 (USB 3.0) devices and the Victorinox SSD.
Last year at CES 2011, Victorinox announced Slim USB 2.0 products and that line has obviously updated to include the newer SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard. The product that we were most interested in was the Victorinox SSD.
This knife features a removable 1TB SSD that has a USB 2.0/eSATA combo port on it. The drives connector works on both USB and e-SATA enabled devices and features 256-bit security. The graphic display is a 48×96-dot LCD that displays information about the drive. The Victorinox SSD will be available in 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, and 1 terabyte capacities. When it comes to pricing we were told the Victorinox SSD 1TB would be around $3,000 USD. This is one Swiss Army Knife that you wouldn’t want to lose.
The need for large capacity storage devices has skyrocketed as consumers and businesses access, catalog and maintain thousands of data-intensive applications as part of their everyday lives. The Victorinox SSD addresses this opportunity by holding a terabyte of storage-the equivalent of 220 million pages of text, almost two years of uninterrupted music or 330,000 3MB photos in a pocket-sized device.
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