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This Iodyne is the most gadgety portable SSD ever devised

A small black slab on a wooden table, with an e-paper display up top displaying name and capacity and a QR code, plugged into a laptop with a purple USB-C cable
The Iodyne Pro Mini. | Photo: Iodyne

Do you know what’s on your portable drives? Or where you saw them last? Are they ready to store and share massive gobs of video? Are they blazing fast?

The Iodyne Pro Mini is designed to be the (pricey) answer to all of that.

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.

Image: Iodyne

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