Hi-Speed USB 2.0 External Drive Enclosure Kit

 

While those key-fob flash memory stick thingies and laptop computers can both be considered "portable storage solutions," neither are quite as versatile as Belkin's Hi-Speed USB 2.0 External Drive Enclosure Kit. As this kit comes devoid of the actual storage device portion of the "solution," it allows for a user-defined capacity based simply on the size of hard drive, CD or DVD-ROM (RW) drive the user cares to slap in it (supports ATA – IDE, Ultra DMA/33, 66, or ATA-100 Hard Disk Drives, ATAPI – CDROM/CD-RW, DVD, DVD RAM ATAPI/SCSI interface).

These days, hard drives accommodate anywhere from, say, 10GB up to a whopping 120GB of data, costing anywhere between US$100 / CA$150 and US$240 / CA$500. Internal CD or DVD drives, Rewritable, combos or otherwise, range from US$30 / CA$50 to $US600 / CA$900. But while one normally installs and permanently wires such a drive into a decidedly un-portable computer or server, Belkin's kit makes it an external, detachable, hot-swappable and potentially enormous digital storage device that is, ergo, easily toted, shareable and network-ready.

Supporting the new USB2.0 standard, data transfer is faster than firewire and 40 times greater than the old USB 1.1--with which it's also compatible--while boasting plug & play ease-of-use.

The unit is about the size of a hardcover book, comes with its own power supply, and is both PC and Mac compatible.

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Reviewed: Nov. 22, 2002
Type: MobilityTech, Productivity
From: Belkin


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