Gizmodo
This Media Tank holds an optical drive and a hard drive and has a built-in card reader for a whole slew of different memory card formats. It seems to be a great home base for people with ultra-portable laptops, letting them keep all their high-storage, media-burning capabilities on their desk for when they aren't out in the field.
We saw this a long time ago, but the price has been cut from $263 to $90. The price tag still seems kind of steep for something you need to buy two drives to stick into, but it's certainly closer to reasonable than it was before.
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Wouldn't be cheaper just to get a PC chassis?
That is one ugly mo-fo.
A hard drive enclosure tends to run around $20-$30, a disc enclosure in the same ball park, and toss in the card reader at another 20, bringing the total somewhere in the $60-$80 range. Add an extra ten bucks to have it all in a really fugly box, and this looks like quite a deal.
I like it actually. Sure you could easily accomplish the same thing with two USB ATA enclosures a Card Reader connected to a USB hub so you have a single connection point for less than $50. But I can see the benefit of having it all in one device.
That being said how the hell did they ever think they could sell this thing for $260. Maybe if they included a HD... $90 seems a bit more reasonable. Still more than I would willingly spend but at least it's in the realm of reasonable.
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I think the expensive version comes with the disk installed...newegg has a 500GB one for $263, and an empty one for $70
This hard drive looks like something Jonathan Ive would make specifically to piss off Steve Jobs.
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