Description

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

Features

• Fastest Oxford 934 Firewire chipset
• Classy solid aluminium body
• Advanced cooling fins on underside
• 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 graph below... over 40MB/s read speeds through firewire. 

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.

Includes SmartAP Monitoring software.  Runs as a Mac OS Dashboard Gadget, or Windows Vista/Windows 7 Sidebar gadget.  Monitors disk temperature and other status.  Can email warning if temperature thresholds reached.

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:

• Macpower SK-2500 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

Software:

• SmartAP Monitoring Software provided for PC/Mac.  This enables the disk temperature and other status information to be read.

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 a 5V mains power adaptor (not included).

Dimensions:  12.5cm x 7.8cm x 2.4cm (LxWxH, mm)

Operating System: Win 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Apple Mac OS.X

Disk Performance

Typical performance figures of this disk, 27MB/s-40MB/s write/read speed.

Apple Mac Mini 2009 Edition, QuickBench 4.0

Product Tour

On the underside is a heatsink enabling excellent dissipation of heat

Shown next to a PC keyboard to show its scale,  you can see how small and portable the disk drive is

Disk Monitoring Software for PC/Mac

View the spaced used,  the hours of power-on use, the number of power on/off cycles.

View the current disk temperature and the maximum temperature reached.  Receive e-mail alerts if temperature threshold is passed.

NOTE:  We have tested this with MacOS Leopard, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.