Description

Daisy Cutter 320GB Ultra Portable Firewire & USB2 Disk Drive

Atlast! you can now get massive capacity in an ultra portable, Firewire and USB2 self-powered disk drive!

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Features

• Fastest Oxford 934 Firewire chipset
• Classy solid aluminium body
• Only 13mm (0.5") thick
• Latest high capacity 2.5" SATA disk drive
• Self powered from USB2 port
• Self powered from Firewire port
• Can be used as Apple Mac Boot Disk
• 2-Year Warranty  

The revolution is happening... you can now get performance and portability!  Using the latest laptop-sized 2.5" disk drives you can now get performance close to that of full size external desktop disk drives,  yet in a pocketable size that is powered by firewire or USB2.

Perfect for Apple Mac users or PC users, this product is ideally suited to professional video and audio editors and photographers, who need the performance and compatibility of the Oxford 934 chipset... the best on the market.

Look at the performance graphs below... over 36MB/s read speeds through firewire.  And on the full PCMark05 tests of real world performance, the disk drive has 83% of the performance of the full sized Pleiades external disk drive with Oxford 934 chipset which has a desktop 500GB disk drive inside.

The enclosure is made of solid aluminium, enabling heat to be dissipated from the disk so you can use it for extended periods without any danger of overheating. The disk is practically silent both when idle and when in operation.

Prior to shipping we fully format the disk for Apple Mac (HFS+ format) guaranteeing that you can plug in the disk and use it within seconds.   If you want the disk partitioned in other formats, such as for Windows XP or Vista, then let us know, and we will do it free of charge prior to shipment.

Hardware:

• Firewire 400 and USB 2.0 Aluminium Enclosure containing a
• 320GB 5400spin 2.5" Seagate SATA disk drive
• Firewire 400 (6-pin to 6-pin) Data Lead, approx 30cm
• USB 2.0 Data lead (USB2 to mini-USB2),  approx 30cm
• On/Off switch
• Mains Power Adaptor, 5V, 2A
  • Has Euro 2-pin plug + UK 3-pin Adaptor
  • Only needed in rare situations where firewire/usb2 power insufficient

Software:

• No driver software needed for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Apple Mac

Warranty

The whole product has a 2-year return to base warranty with us. 

Product Specification

Connection:

Disk Drive:

Latest Seagate Momentus 320GB SATA 2.5" Disk Drive, 5400rpm, 8MB Cache

Important: If, when you try connect the external disk, you hear it making a "ticking" noise then it does not have enough power to operate correctly and you will need to use the mains power adaptor.

Dimensions:  131 x 75 x 15 (LxWxH, mm)

Operating System: Win 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Apple Mac

Disk Performance

Performance measured with "Performance Test v4" by www.passmark.com

Performance Comparison

We have measured the performance of this DaisyCutter drive, using the firewire interface, on 3 different Windows PCs -  From an older Althon PC, through to a modern Quad Core Pentium.

DC 320GB 5400	DC 320GB 7200	Pleiades 500GB
DaisyCutter with Seagate 320GB 5400rpm Disk	DaisyCutter with Seagate 320GB 7200rpm Disk	Full Size Pleiades Seagate 500GB 7200rpm Disk
FIREWIRE POWER	FIREWIRE POWER	MAINS POWER

PC Mark 05 Disk Performance: 

This performance measures REAL LIFE disk performance with simulations of starting the Operating System, loading applications, and general writing and reading data.   So the relative performance gives an indication of the difference you should expect between various products.

Performance shown as relative percentage of highest marks: 

These figures show that the Daisy Cutter with Seagate 5400rpm disk is about 83% of the performance of the Pleiades big desktop external disk drive.  And the faster 7200rpm model is almost 94% of the Pleiades big desktop external disk drive.

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