Storage brand Buffalo is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and it is doing it with a throwback to its Skeleton Hard Disk from 1998. Back in the day, the drive was made with a transparent case allowing you to see its inner workings, but is otherwise no different from any other HDD. This new, one, on the other hand, looks like a plaque you’d put on a desk to display alongside your other accolades.
Rather than being completely transparent though, only the middle portion of this new Buffalo Skeleton Hard Drive shows the platters inside spinning. The rest of the top is a black sheet of metal, which bends back to form a stand of sorts. The rest of the drive’s housing looks to be of a bronze colour, as is the housing for the USB-C port and power port. Yes these are not part of the same housing, and you can see the cables that connect the two.
As for the drive itself, the new Buffalo Skeleton Hard Drive comes with 4TB of storage space, and well as supporting USB 3.2 Gen 1. In addition to using it as your everyday external drive, there’s also a Windows only utility software that allows the drive to run several “demo” modes. So if you want to see the drive move while it is doing things like “random seek”, “sequential seek” or “second hand step”, you can command it to do so directly.
As which such novelty items, only 50 of the new Buffalo Skeleton Hard Drive will be made, and each costs JPY100,000 (~RM2,956). While it’s a fitting number, as you can imagine from those two pieces of information, these will only be raffled in Japan, with winners getting their special drive in June.
