Addonics New Jupiter Hard Drive Enclosure Features Rugged Anodized Aluminum Housing, Shock Protection and Bullet Proof Hardware Encryption for 2.5'' IDE Drives.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Addonics Technologies (www.addonics.com) today announced the most complete and advanced family of hard drive enclosures for 2.5-inch IDE hard drives with the debut of its Jupiter enclosure series.

Jupiter includes all the important features required in a portable hard drive: a rugged anodized aluminum housing for use in harsh environment; light weight and compact size for portability; shock mount technology to protect the drive against vibration and drop from the top of a desk. The Jupiter enclosure accepts any manufacturer's 2.5-inch IDE hard drive with drive height of 10 mm or less.

The Jupiter drive enclosure also comes with choice of hardware encryption, called Jupiter Cipher, which encrypts and decrypts the entire hard drive in real time. The hardware encryption shares the same level of security and user convenience that first appeared in the Addonics Saturn Cipher for the 3.5" hard drive. There is no software to install or password to remember. Encryption and decryption is activated by the simple insertion of a physical cipher key into the enclosure. As a result, the operation of the encrypted hard drive is OS and platform independent, which makes the data easily accessible and highly secure on any system.

The Jupiter drive enclosure, designed with an Addonics USIB interface connector, can be used as an external hard drive via a USB, eSATA, Firewire or CardBus connection by attaching different Addonics USIB interface cables. Using the optional drive cradle that mounts easily into any standard 3.5" drive bay, the drive enclosure can also be used as an IDE removable hard drive or as a hot swappable drive cartridge via USB or SATA connection. The drive enclosure is designed to be powered either by the USB port, Firewire port or an external power adapter. With a large assortment of components and accessories, the Jupiter drive kit enables users to build practically any kind of storage solution using the small 2.5" hard drive.

The Jupiter Cipher and the regular Jupiter hard drive kit also share the same drive cradle and accessories. This allows users to mix encrypted and regular hard drives in the same system. Users can access encrypted hard drive data as long as they have the Addonics Cipher key.

One of the common Jupiter Drive kit applications is the external hard drive. The standard bundled package with USB 2.0 connection, model AJEDIU, with Jupiter drive enclosure, Addonics USB 2.0 USIB interface cable and 110/220V power adapter, is listed at $59.95. The equivalent encryption version, model JCEDIU64, with Jupiter Cipher 64-bit DES drive enclosure, a pair of 64-bit Cipher keys and the same accessories, is listed at $79.99.

Addonics products are available through the company online store www.shopaddonics.com, major catalog companies, resellers, VARs and distributors, including Amazon.com, PC Connection, CDW, 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: [phone]. Visit Addonics at www.addonics.com.

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