This Iodyne is the most gadgety portable SSD ever devised

Do you know what's on your portable drives? Or where you saw them last? Are they ready to store and share massive gobs of video? Are they blazing fast?

The Iodyne Pro Mini is designed to be the (pricey) answer to all of that.

It's the first external SSD with a pair of Frore AirJet Mini Slim inside, a solid-state cooling chip that, the company says, helps it transfer data at a sustained three gigabytes per second with a drive no bigger than an iPhone.

It's the first I've seen with a built-in e-paper display that can automatically keep track of remaining storage and the last time it was used - plus your project name, lost-and-found phone numbers or emails, QR codes, or anything else you type in.

It's the first drive I've heard of with optional Find My location tracking, and not just for iPhones - Iodyne says it's working with Chipolo to make it the first trackable SSD on Google's new Find My Device network, too. Unlike an AirTag, it doesn't have UWB precision finding, but it also doesn't need you to swap a coin battery after a year; the tracker has a rechargeable battery that should automatically charge whenever you plug the drive in.

Once you find it with your phone, Iodyne says it'll be the first portable storage drive you can unlock with your phone's passkeys, too, no internet connection required, and with built-in NFC so you can tap-to-unlock just like tapping to pay at retail.

Your credentials are stored in a dedicated Secure Enclave chip like with a modern phone, too, the company says - and the drive has always-on XTS-AES-256 encryption, plus RAID 6 redundancy to potentially save your data even if part of the storage fails.