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Finding you need to cram more storage on your devices and
you're a little short on space?
Portable storage maker, Addonics Technologies Thursday took
the wraps off their version of a Swiss Army knife for storage
devices.
The San Jose, Calif.-based company said its new Addonics
Pocket UDD (Ultra DigiDrive) is the first USB 2.0 external
data storage Reader/Writer for PC Card (PCMCIA) hard drives
and the most popular form factors of Flash memory cards.
The eight-ounce device is about the size of a portable CD
player and supports Windows 98/SE, Me, 2000, XP, Mac OS X
(support USB 1.1 only), and Linux kernel 2.4 or higher.
Standard PC Card hard drives and ATA Flash cards can be added
and removed from the Pocket UDD like any removable media.
To read/write to other flash media, Addonics said it provides
the adapters to convert the flash media to PCMCIA form factor.
The adapters can be purchased separately or as a bundled solution.
"Our target audience is users of the Toshiba PCMCIA
hard drive and professional photographers who needs fast download
of large digital files to computers from various Flash media.
Until now, the application for PCMCIA hard drive is very much
limited to Notebook computers," said Addonics spokesman
Bill Kwong.
When used with Addonics' optional CF DigiAdapter or the 4-in-1
DigiAdapter, the company said the Pocket UDD can also read/write
to all popular Flash media including: CF-I, CF-II, Smart Media,
Memory stick, Secure Digital Card, Multimedia Card or Micro
Drive.
Users can even boot their system from the Addonics Pocket
UDD via the USB port depending on the BIOS support on each
computer.
The base model with USB 2.0 interface cable has a list price
of $89, or $119 with FireWire interface cable and A/C power
adapter. The 9-in-1 Pocket UDD models come bundled with the
Addonics 4-in-1 DigiAdapter, the CF DigiAdapter, and USB 2.0
or FireWire cable and have a list price of $149 for the USB
2.0 version or $179 for the FireWire version.
Addonics said the devices would be sold through major catalog
companies, resellers, VARs and distributors.
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