
Imation Apollo UX 500GB HD review
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A pocket-sized hard drive that combines speed and portability
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A pocket-sized hard drive that combines speed and portability

Is this SSD a wolf in sheep's clothing or a duck in a wooly hat?

The 160GB Imation Apollo hard drive works well, and has a strong build quality and a clean-looking caddy. It’s smart enough to produce at a meeting.

We're not being unfair, here. It may seem like something of a cruel and unusual punishment to place a removable cartridge drive in among all of these internal hard drives, but 2.5in Odyssey is being pushed as the logical alternative to tape backup

It's not often we see manufacturers tread the peripherals-as-fetish-wear route, but that's exactly what imation has done with its rubberised wristband flash disk. As soon as we unpacked it, we were hit with the same wave of nausea...