By Desire Athow
Introduction and performance
From time to time, a product that appears to be promising lands on your desk, but ultimately ends up being a bit of a disappointment. Toshiba’s Canvio AeroMobile wireless portable SSD, which has a 128GB capacity, may sadly fall into that category if you’re thinking of buying it purely for storage reasons.
Seagate, Samsung and Western Digital have added Wi-Fi to a hard disk drive but none have tried – to our knowledge – to swap a spinning drive for a solid state one.
In theory, doing so makes it lighter, much faster, more resistant to shocks and power efficient; Toshiba claims that it can stream data for up to eight hours. At £110 from John Lewis (around $168, AU$216), it comes dangerously close to the £1/GB barrier, which is about twice what I’d expect to pay for an SSD of similar capacity.
That said, this gadget combines an SSD with an SD card reader, Wi-Fi capabilities and a battery, and the combination works very well if you’re ready to cough up for it.
Design
The AeroMobile is about 5-inch in length, …read more
Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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