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This Iodyne is the most gadgety portable SSD ever devised


Come for the e-paper display, stay for AirJet.

It’s the first external SSD with a pair of Frore AirJet Mini Slim inside, a solid-state cooling chip that, the company says, helps it transfer data at a sustained three gigabytes per second with a drive no bigger than an iPhone. It’s the first I’ve seen with a built-in e-paper display that can automatically keep track of remaining storage and the last time it was used — plus your project name, lost-and-found phone numbers or emails, QR codes, or anything else you type in. Your credentials are stored in a dedicated Secure Enclave chip like with a modern phone, too, the company says — and the drive has always-on XTS-AES-256 encryption, plus RAID 6 redundancy to potentially save your data even if part of the storage fails.

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