Cruzer Titanium Plus: Flash drive with online back up
SanDisk is set to pioneer a revolutionary Flash Drive. Its newest creation Cruzer Titanium Plus was unveiled on Wednesday. The revolutionary new flash storage device automatically backs up the stored data to the internet.
The back up will take place via a service offered by a start-up called BeInSync. The data will get stored on the computers of online retail giant Amazon Inc. Latter offers similar services to other companies, enabling them to store data on online retailer's computer after paying certain fee.
2008 looks set to be year of devices that offer automatic connectivity to the internet, leading to a variety of new services. SanDisk believes that its offering shall be a first-of-a-kind. The Cruzer, coming with a capacity of 4GB, goes on sale in March for $59.99. The device will be bundled with six months of free online backup. Thereafter users will be required to shell out $29.99 a year to avail of the online backup feature.
This is surely a goods news to those that have had the unfortunate experience of loosing data stored on flash devices before (yours truly included). The additional advantage will be to recover data that gets accidentally deleted. This one ought to be on everybody's shopping list come March.
