Description

Daisy Cutter 500GB Ultra Portable Firewire & USB2 Disk Drive

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

more pictures

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 38MB/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
• 500GB 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 500GB 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

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.

This product is shown as DC 500GB 5400, with a Disk Performance of 3400,  which is 83.7% of the performance of a full size Pleiades 500GB 7200rpm desktop disk connected through firewire.

Product Tour