Sandisk Cruzer Titanium USB Drive with Automatic Online Backup

on 01/02/2008, filed in Home > Computers

[CES 2008] Sandisk’s Cruzer Titanium is a USB flash drive that has an integrated automatic online backup (powered by BeInSync, using the Amazon S3 infrastructure), in case the drive is lost or has simply been forgotten. Additionally, the Cruzer Titanium features a solid shell and AES encryption, which is an encryption method used for financial transactions.

The drive itself costs $60 and the online backup service will cost $30 per year. This device will be shown at CES, Booth #30768, South Hall 3. (Press Release)

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