Addonics Announces the Pocket MirrorDrive.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 1998-- The "Swiss Army Knife" of Storage Solutions for Notebook or Desktop PCs; High-Capacity Upgrade Drive, Mirrored Drive, Disaster Recovery System, and More Addonics Technologies today announced a transportable storage A storage medium that is easily moved from one location to another. CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, Zip and REV cartridges, USB drives (flash drives) and compact external hard drives are examples of transportable storage. See removable disk and external drive. solution that is as flexible and indispensable for both notebook and desktop PC users as a Swiss Army knife on a camping trip. Addonics' new Pocket MirrorDrive may not include a utensil kit, but just about every imaginable storage function has been packaged into this $129 (MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) ) transportable storage device -- making it one of the industry's most flexible and more unique storage solutions. The Pocket MirrorDrive is: -0-
-- an external PC Card hard drive for notebook PCs, which can be
powered through the PC Card slot or keyboard port
-- a removable hard drive with 3.5-inch drive bay cradle for desktop
PCs
-- a backup device for making exact copies of a hard drive with the
DataMirror software
-0- The Pocket MirrorDrive's hardware components include an external hard drive enclosure See HDD cradle. that measures just 5.4 x 3.3 x 0.9 inches. The enclosure accepts most standard 2.5-inch IDE notebook hard drives, including EIDE (Enhanced IDE) An extension to the IDE interface that supports the ATA-2 and ATAPI standards. ATA-2 (Fast ATA) provides faster transfer rates (see IDE for details) and allows for multiple channels, each connecting two devices. and Ultra DMA Same as Ultra ATA. Ultra DMA - ATA-4 drives. The solution also includes a PC Card interface cable, and a 3.5-inch drive bay cradle for desktop PCs -- which enables the Pocket MirrorDrive to be used as a removable hard drive. Quick and Easy Disk Cloning See cloning software. , Hard Drive Upgrades, or Disaster Recovery When it's used with the DataMirror utility software the Pocket MirrorDrive is perfect for data backup, disk cloning, as well as a disaster recovery device for transferring data from failing hard drives. The DataMirror utility software makes a mirror copy of your hard drive, which makes it easy to upgrade a notebook or desktop PC to a higher capacity hard drive. Upgrading an outdated notebook hard drive takes minutes with the Pocket Mirror Drive. Transfer time for a 1 gigabyte hard drive is approximately 15 minutes, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Addonics. Users merely install a new 2.5-inch hard drive into the Pocket MirrorDrive enclosure; run the DataMirror utility software to make an exact copy of the original drive; then remove their original internal notebook hard drive and replace it with the one in the Pocket MirrorDrive. Mobile users also have the option of using the Pocket MirrorDrive in its own enclosure as an external PC Card hard drive that can be powered through the PC Card or keyboard port. The Pocket MirrorDrive supports DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. . System requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. for notebook PC use include a PC Card Type I or Type II slot, and a minimum 640K RAM. Desktop use requires one free IDE port. The drive will be available through major computer superstores, mass merchants, catalog companies, resellers, VARs and distributors, including CompUSA, Fry's Electronics, Computer City, and MicroCenter. Addonics, with 1997 revenues of $350 million, is a member of the multi-billion-dollar ACER Group. Addonics designs, manufactures, and markets a broad line of external and portable products that connect to any desktop or notebook personal computer through the PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. interface, such as CD-ROM drives, Optical Storage devices and external hard drives. The company also has a broad line of communications A route, either land, water, and/or air, that connects an operating military force with a base of operations and along which supplies and military forces move. Also called LOC. See also base of operations; route. products and multimedia audio and graphics solutions. Addonics is headquartered at 48434 Milmont Drive, Fremont, CA 94538. Note to Editors: All products/company names are either trademarks or trade names of their respective holders.
CONTACT: Addonics Technologies
Christopher Mantin, 510/438-6530 ext. 129
ATC@addonics.com
or
Hill/LF Communications
Chad Hill/Len Fernandes, 925/945-7910 / 510/538-8916
hillcomm@earthlink.net
lencom@earthlink.net
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