Swapping Hard Drives Is a "Snap" With New Addonics Snap-In SATA Mobile Rack.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. -- Addonics Technologies made swapping hard drives a snap when it today announced its Snap-In 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. Mobile Rack, a removable hard drive system that allows easy hot swapping of 3.5-inch SATA hard drives. The Addonics Snap-In SATA Mobile Rack installs in minutes in any 5 --inch drive bay. It allows hard drives to be hot swapped by simply ejecting them and snapping in a new hard drive. Users just need to open the Mobile Rack drive door, and the hard drive will be automatically ejected from the Snap-In SATA Mobile Rack for easy removal. Slide a new hard drive inside the Mobile Rack; close the door and the newly-installed hard drive will immediately make a power and data connection to the system. Changing hard drives with the Snap-In SATA Mobile Rack is just as easy as installing a floppy disc in an old system. The advantage is that users can now hot swap multi-gigabyte hard drives versus the 1.44MBs of an older floppy. Constructed in a stainless steel stainless steel: see steel. stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. frame, the hard drive inside the Snap-In Mobile Rack rests on isolated mounts to minimize drive damage from vibration and shock. The back of the Snap-In Mobile Rack is equipped with a cooling fan to provide efficient air flow from the front through the back. The front bezel The front cover of a desktop or tower computer case. The term also refers to the individual drive bay covers, which are removed to install CD-ROMs and other removable drives that require access from the front of the case. includes both power and drive access LEDs. The drive door is equipped with a key lock that also turns on the power when the drive is securely locked in place. The solution supports any 3.5-inch SATA hard drive with point-to-point connection (no cables to connect each hard drive loaded into the rack). Drives are fully hot swappable with no need to power down the system. In addition, Addonics offers a series of optional converter boards, which attach to the back of the Mobile Rack. The Snap-In SATA Mobile Rack can then be interfaced into any computer via the IDE, 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. , or SCSI interface. With the addition of external power adapter and eSATA cable, the Snap-In Mobile Rack can also be installed as an external device with eSATA or USB connection to any computer. The list price of the Addonics Snap-In SATA Mobile Rack is $26.95. The 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) with USB 2.0 interface is $49.95; $47.95 with IDE interface, and $129.95 with LVD See LVDS. LVD - Low Voltage Differential 160 SCSI interface. 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 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. All products/company names are either trademarks or trade names of their respective holders. |
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