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In a hunt for a new USB drive with more storage space than my sad little 256 MB that I bought for a whopping $56 in 2003 (yikes!), I ran across the ATP 8GB EarthDrive, which touts itself as the world’s first earth-friendly USB drive. The drive has some great features, such as it is shock proof, water proof and dust proof, has built in security software, drive partitioning, password protection and is nice and big with 8 GB of storage. But what makes it so hot as a world’s first for eco-friendliness?
This claim to fame comes the fact that it is made from bio-recycled plastics and is fully recyclable at the end of its life. Taking it a tree-hugging step further, a portion of all EarthDrive product sales goes towards the planting of trees through their partnership with American Forests. For $48, I think I can make a pretty guilt-free upgrade.
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written by Kontol Raksassar, August 06, 2008
I don't know why this site publishes this kind of rubbish. How many people are going to recycle their dongle when it is time to replace it? I would hazard a guess at close to zero.
Has the manufacturer actually established certified recycling stations for the dongle?
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written by Jacob, August 06, 2008
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written by e, August 06, 2008
has built in security software, drive partitioning, password protection. That means they have some funny software that mangles the partition table enough to fool Windows XP into recognising more than the first partition... a bug in XP as I see it. ...breaking it for anything else that expects a normal DOS partition table like any other disk.
There are stable, well tested, robust & free tools that can do all those things with a normal USB key.
If they made the case thinner like the other waterproof ones & took all the rubbish off it, I'd buy one. It doesn't have to be any thicker than the USB jack. The one on my keyring isnt.
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written by Treepata, August 08, 2008
What the first two commenters didn't understand, was that the primary objective of the bio-recycled housing of this device, was that it didn't use normal (environmentally unfriendly) plastics. Of course the bio-recycled material is not intended to be recycled by nature as such (this is also not claimed on the products webpage). Here in Europe the product has to be brought to recycling facilities anyway, so it will never will reach a landfill (hopfully) to bio-degrade by itself. As I said, the bio-recycled material is (as far as I understand) to conserve fossil fuels and unnecessary CO2 emmission (even though this contribution might be small). All things help, and maybe this pioneer will convince other manufacturers to do the same.
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written by D, August 08, 2008
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Buy a USB drive based on the best value-- they are pretty much equally green. Save the green marketing for products that really make a difference, e.g. a router/modem that goes into standby mode (~0 power) when the connected computer is powered off, or a desktop computer that is as energy efficient as a laptop.