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Her Majesty’s Geekest Service – the Pretec i-Disk Bulletproof USB Flash Drive

Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by Jake in Gadgets

I like to think of myself as one of the more hardcore geeks. I don’t just sit around writing the blog all day, you know. The rest of my time is spent doing top secret geek espionage work. I can’t tell you more, because then I’d have to kill you (using weapons that utilise the latest technology, of course).

Suffice to say that, sometimes, when I put a top secret file containing data that could save the world on my USB drive I get a little worried that said data will be destroyed when the enemy starts shooting at me. That’s why I for one am highly relieved to learn that a company called Pretec has develop the i-Disk Bulletproof USB Flash Drive.

The i-Disk is shielded in two layers of metal protection , which can seal water, fire and of course the impact of a bullet from damaging the circuit, allowing the i-Disk Bulletproof to boast the title of being the ‘world’s most rugged USB flash drive in the world’, admittedly not a category in which there is a large amount of competition. The drive’s capacity ranges from 32MB (a bit small to warrant all of the trouble they have gone to in order to protect it) to a more sensible 2 gigs.

According to Pretec’s website, the i-Disk Bulletproof also boasts the super-fast access speed of 20MB/s, and if that’s not fast enough for you they can custom design a 40MB/s version (making it not only the world’s most rugged flash drive but also it’s fastest) by special arrangement. And the i-Disk Bulletproof comes with security features including password protection, encryption, write protection and even the ability to allow it’s user to auto-execute pre-defined or user-defined files for identification purpose. Clearly, this a flash drive is better suited to Secret Agent 007.5 (Licence to Format) than to the average geek.

Which brings me to the iDisk Bulletproof Flash Drive’s greatest shortfall – it may be bullet, fire, water and heavy impact resistant, but it is still just as tiny as any other flash drive, which means that it isn’t resistant to getting lost. Which, if I were to come down to reality for a second, I would have to admit is the greatest threat any USB flash drive I have ever owned has faced.

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