New Addonics Flash Reader/Writer and PC Card Hard Drive Puts Nine Media Storage Types in Your ``Pocket''.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2002 Addonics Technologies today announced a portable storage solution for users confounded by the incompatibility of the numerous Flash media storage options in today's digital cameras, camcorders, PDAs, MP3 players, and voice recorders. Addonics allows you to put nine popular formats in your pocket. The new Addonics Pocket UDD UDD Union for Democracy and Development (Mali) UDD Uniform Distribution of Deaths (actuarial models) UDD Unconstrained Delay Data UDD Urine Diversion Dehydration (toilet) (TM) (Ultra DigiDrive) is the first 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. 2.0 external data storage Reader/Writer for PC Card (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. ) hard drives and the most popular form factors of Flash memory cards. It supports today's popular digital media storage formats and doubles as a PC Card hard drive reader/writer. The Pocket UDD is also the fastest external data storage Reader/Writer that connects to any computer or equipment with USB 2.0 or FireWire interface. Maximum data transfer rates are 60MB/sec with USB 2.0 or 50MB/sec with FireWire. Standard PC Card hard drives and ATA Flash See flash memory. cards can be added and removed from the Pocket UDD like any removable media In computer storage, removable media refers to storage media which can be removed from its reader device, conferring portability on the data it carries. A removable drive is a reader device for such media. . To read/write to other flash media, Addonics provides the adapters to convert the flash media to PCMCIA form factor. The adapters can be purchased separately or as a bundled solution. When used with the Addonics optional CF DigiAdapter or the 4-in-1 DigiAdapter, the Pocket UDD can also read/write to all popular Flash media including: CF-I, CF-II, Smart Media(TM), Memory stick(TM), Secure Digital Card See SD Card. (TM), Multimedia Card(TM) or Micro Drive(TM). Users can boot their system from the Addonics Pocket UDD via the USB port A USB socket on a computer or peripheral device into which a USB cable is plugged. See USB. depending on the BIOS support on each computer. The mobility, fast data transfer rates, flexible USB or FireWire design interface, and support for nine media types make the Addonics IDE Ultra DigiDrive an indispensable storage device for all mobile users and desktop PCs. The base model Addonics Pocket UDD with USB 2.0 interface cable has a list price of $89, or $119 with FireWire interface cable and A/C power adapter. The 9-in-1 Pocket UDD models come bundled with the Addonics 4-in-1 DigiAdapter, the CF DigiAdapter, and USB 2.0 or FireWire cable and have a list price of $149 for the USB 2.0 version or $179 for the FireWire version. The Pocket UDD supports Windows 98/SE, Me, 2000, XP, Mac OS X (support USB 1.1 only), and Linux kernel 2.4 or higher. The device measures 4.63 in (W) x 5.4 in (D) x .98in (H) and weighs just eight ounces. Addonics products are available through major catalog companies, resellers, VARs and distributors, including StorageUSA.com, Amazon.com, PC Connection, CDW CDW - data warehouse , Buy.com, Insight, Ingram Micro, and Ma Lab. Addonics Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets a broad line of external storage products. Addonics is headquartered at 2466 Kruse Drive, San Jose, CA 95131, Phone: 408/433-3899. Visit Addonics at www.addonics.com. Note to Editors: All products/company names are either trademarks or trade names of their respective holders. |
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