I was too curious and broke the seal. Will actually try to use it, probably for the rare full /home backup every 2 or 3 years, since it needs external power and is probably not that fast. I’d date this artifact late 2000s? It might have USB 2, making it fast enough.
Weird though that I’d buy this and forget about it forever. It definitely cost enough to matter to me back then.
I had a EUR 99 digital camera back then which could fit about 15 photos at mediocre resolution. 1600x1200 used about 0.5 MB. I would think that many consumer devices took higher resolution photos in the late 2000s already, though.
Yeah I think the issue is less resolution and is more that their estimated photo size (1 MB) corresponds with a JPEG… If I’m backing up photos to a big disk, I’m going to be backing up the RAWs, (and maybe a sidecar file for edits) which are significantly larger.