Peely superfans will wish to get in line for Fortnite‘s newest collab: SanDisk has teamed up with the gaming large for fruit-flavoured variations of its USB Flash Drive and Portable SSD, and each is packing an unique in-game merchandise to point out off at your subsequent Victory Royale.
The Western Digital-owned storage specialist additionally gave cellular content material creators some love at this 12 months’s CES, with a MagSafe-compatible exterior SSD.
It was the banana-inspired duo that first caught my eye, although. The pocket-sized moveable SSD has a contrasting blue carry deal with and Peely’s distinctive emoticon-style face – which isn’t so offensively Fortnite that non-gamers shall be postpone from selecting one up.
SanDisk has a bunch of capacities deliberate as much as 2TB. The Portable SSD performs properly with PlayStation and Xbox consoles in addition to Macs and PCs, and might handle as much as 800MB/s learn speeds over a USB 3.2 Gen 2 connection. Fortnite gamers get a code to unlock a pickaxe in-game. Prices begin at £79 for 1TB of storage, and pre-orders are open on the Sandisk web site proper now.
The matching USB flash drive will get a redeemable in-game wrap. I’m a bit of shocked SanDisk has caught with USB-A fairly than USB-C, but it surely is smart seeing how many of the present console era has extra type-A than type-C connections. Read speeds prime out at 130mb/s over USB 3.2 Gen 1 right here, and there’s a selection of 64, 128 and 256GB capacities. It’s on sale proper now, with costs kicking off at simply £8 for the 64GB model.
The new SanDisk Creator Phone SSD with MagSafe, in the meantime, could be a little bit of a mouthful – but it surely’ll absolutely come in useful for the cellular creator crowd. It magnetically hooks onto the again of any MagSafe suitable telephone or telephone case, with a loop-around USB-C cable delivering as much as 950MB/s write and 1000MB/s learn speeds relying on the handset.
If you’ve acquired a more recent Pro iPhone, you’ll be capable to report 4K 60fps ProRes movies straight to the SSD, which might maintain both 1TB or 2TB of footage. The silicone shell offers a reassuring three meter drop safety, and the entire thing is IP65 water and dirt resistant, so a brief bathe or tumble within the dust gained’t spell catastrophe.
It’ll go on sale later within the Spring, for £92 for a 1TB mannequin – which features a month’s subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud within the field.