First of all, I know it’s bad to let a portable drive just hang from the USB cable, and I have done this on several occasions (don’t act like you haven’t done it! Ok, just me?). Anyway, thanks to the mysterious properties of magnets, I could position the DATAMAG 20Gbps drive exactly where it would be out of the way, and with zero stress on the cable. And the longer cable it comes with would offer even more placement flexibility on your case.So, is this a practical product? I think so, considering that it’s quite a bit like small SSD offerings we have seen from the likes of Crucial, but with the additional utility of magnetic attachment. I don’t know pricing yet, and can’t even find this on sale anywhere, but MSI has sampled a number of outlets (including this one) leading up to the launch, so maybe we will see it before Christmas.
The value proposition will have a lot to do with our conclusion, naturally, so for now I will simply say that it can be a very fast drive, but larger file transfers slow it down to 10Gbps speeds (on our X870E board, anyhow).
