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Addonics New ''Saturn Hard Drive Enclosure'' Product Family Brings Mobility and Multi-Interface Compatibility to SATA and IDE Hard Drives.


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, Calif. -- Addonics Technologies today announced the Saturn Hard Drive Enclosure family of products, the first drive enclosure kit that enables any SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986.  hard drive to connect to a computer via USB USB
 in full Universal Serial Bus

Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer.
, Firewire, CardBus/PCMCIA, SATA or IDE interface. Saturn is also the first storage solution that allows any 3.5" SATA hard drive, or 3.5", 2.5" or 1.8" IDE hard drive to be used as removable drive via the same drive bay in a Mobile Rack application.

Designed on a modular concept, the Saturn hard drive enclosure components can be mixed and matched to meet practically any storage application. Since all Saturn components are interchangeable, users can mix components for specialized applications. Saturn Hard Drive kit enables users to read/write to their hard drive with practically any computing device, both legacy and new systems as well as provide desktop and mobile use.

Common configurations in the Saturn Drive Enclosure kits include:

Saturn ExDrive (SED (1) (Stream EDitor) A Unix text editor that processes an entire file. It is the stream-oriented version of ed, an earlier text editor. Sed executes ed commands, but instead of editing one line at a time, sed applies the commands to the whole file. ) -- An external hard drive solution using a SATA or IDE hard drive. The Saturn ExDrive enclosure is designed with Addonics USIB USIB United States Intelligence Board
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 connector to enable either SATA or IDE hard drives to connect to various interfaces by attaching different USIB interface cables. Each ExDrive package comes with one Addonics USIB interface cable and an 110/220V AC/DC AC/DC  
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 power adapter. The enclosure can be expanded into a Combo Hard Drive or Drive Cartridge system with the optional IDE Drive Cradle or USIB Drive Cradle.

Saturn Mobile Rack (SMR (Specialized Mobile Radio) The communications services used by police, ambulances, taxicabs, trucks and other delivery vehicles. Throughout the U.S., approximately 3,000 independent operators are licensed by the FCC to offer this service, which provides always-on ) -- A removable hard drive storage solution via an IDE Drive Cradle mounted inside a 5 1/4" drive bay. Either SATA or IDE hard drives can be installed or removed from the same Drive Cradle as a removable hard drive.

Saturn Combo Hard Drive (SCHD SCHD Summit County Health District (Ohio)
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) -- Combines the features of the Saturn ExDrive and Mobile Rack. The Drive enclosure, when removed from the Drive Cradle, can be used as an external hard drive system using one of the Addonics USIB interface cables and the power adapter that are included in each package.

Saturn Drive Cartridge System (SDCS SDCS San Diego City Schools
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) -- The Saturn SDCS configuration adds a hot swappable removable hard drive system inside a 5 1/4" drive bay via USB, SATA or Firewire interface with the included USIB interface cable in each package. External installation is supported with the optional power adapter and optional USIB interface cable. This is the most complete installation with room to expand as well as the option to change interfaces as needed as needed prn. See prn order. .

All Addonics Saturn Hard Drive kits include the necessary components and hardware for users to install their own choice of hard drive. An optional kit is available for installing a 2.5 inch or 1.8 inch IDE hard drive in the same enclosure. SATA as well as IDE hard drives can also be interchanged in any system via the same 5 1/4-inch drive bay. The Saturn enclosure and cradle systems are designed with direct point-to-point connection from the hard drive to the enclosure and the drive cradles for the most reliable connection.

Almost any level of user can configure the Saturn Drive Cartridge system. No switches or jumpers or special format utility software is required to prepare the hard drive, or for switching between internal/external use once the drive is installed. Addonics Saturn Hard Drive kits can be installed in systems with practically any operating system depending on the type of interface connection.

List price of the Addonics Saturn Drive Cartridge kit starts from $74.50 for the Saturn ExDrive (SED) for SATA hard drives with USB 2.0 interface to $79 for the Saturn Drive Cartridge System (SDCS) with hot swappable removable IDE hard drive capabilities.

Addonics products are available through the company online store www.shopaddonics.com, major catalog companies, resellers, VARs and distributors, including Newegg.com, Amazon.com, PC Connection, CDW CDW - data warehouse , Buy.com, Provantage.com, Insight, and Ingram Micro.

Addonics Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets a broad line of external and mobile storage products. Addonics is headquartered at 2466 Kruse Drive, San Jose, CA 95131, Phone: 408-433-3899. Visit Addonics at www.addonics.com

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