Integral 512GB USB 3.0 Solid State Drive

Title : Integral 512GB USB 3.0 Solid State Drive
ASIN : B00BHUNTHI

Features :

• 512GB Integral Portable SSD Solid State Disk
• USB3.0 connection, also backwards compatible with USB2.0
• Ultra-fast speeds up to 220MB/sec (read) and 120MB/sec (write)
• No moving parts means extra durability
• Extremely small and lightweight

List Price : £276.99
Price : £276.99


category: External Hard Drives
brand: Integral
Item Page Detail URL : link
Rating : 4.0
Review : Its smaller than they say!
Very impressed with the speed on this little thing. And that's my only complaint - Amazon got the size wrong!

The 15 x 12 x 2.4 cm they quote in the item is the size of the box. The actual drive is only 9.3 x 5.3 x 8 cm according to their website (see the pdf):

http://www.integralmemory.com/sites/default/files/products/specifcations/Integral_USB3.0_Portable_SSD_Spec_Sheet_0.pdf

So as they say there its really 'credit card size'. Maybe my only other 'complaint' would be that the USB3 cable is almost as big as the drive.

Although I haven't used it extensively yet (wanted to get the size news out there for anyone who worried about the quoted ones on Amazon) it seems to work very well. Can certainly recommend it. I've just got a new laptop with USB3 and think its great.

[Added 16 Sept.] One bad thing I found out later is that this drive is useless for running VM images, which is one of the other main reasons I bought it. It's...