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There are times when you need to bring large files from your desktop or laptop to someone else’s and no flash drive you have is quite large enough to hold those massive files or can only handle a portion of them.  Moving files through several transfers from one flash drive, over and over, again can get to be very tedious and time consuming.  Portable hard drives can work in the situation, but they can be fairly fragile at times and not very fast.  OWC looks to have these problems covered with its latest release.

OWC has introduced a line of portable SSDs as part of its Mercury On-The-Go Pro line.  The SSDs will be able to connect to your computer through Firewire 400 or 800 or USB 2.0 and transfer data are at speeds of up to 100 MBps, which should make for some faster file transfers compared to similar-sized portable HDDs.  They won’t be able to hold as much as a lot of portable HDDs you can get now, with sizes of 64GB, 128GB and 256GB.  What they will give you over the portable HDDs is less moving parts (none, to be exact), better shock protection, better power efficiency, and less noise when in use.

These SSDs really aren’t much of a surprise; they appear to be just SSDs packed into OWCs 1.8” HDD portable enclosures.  However, the ease of simply buying it whole is much appreciated, and possibly even a tad cheaper.  With the 64GB version retailing at $279.99, however, you either have to have a lot of money or be really into SSDs to justify buying one.  These should come in down in price eventually, which will be nice.  The only problem is SSDs aren’t, and can’t come down in price fast enough.

Read [Electronista]