Digital content, in many forms, is integral to our business and personal lives, and we all want a portable storage solution for their digital library that requires the least effort and gives us peace of mind.

Western Digital’s latest miniature digital storage device allows you to hold as many as five 2-hour feature-length movies, 1700 digital photos, 1500 songs or thousands of documents. In other words, it has a storage capacity of 6GB.

The new USB 2.0 Passport Pocket Drives are about the size of a matchbox, measuring about 90mm - one of the thinnest of any hard disk drive-based storage device, and weighing only 45g. It’s based on a 1-inch 3600rpm HDD with a 2MB cache. It also has a mean read seek time of 11ms and a nominal average latency of 8.3ms.

Western Digital’s Passport Pocket Drive offers one of the easiest ways to transport large digital files - personal or business - and to share files between Mac and PC computers. It can be used with any computer which has a USB port and sports a unique flip-out, rotating USB 2.0 connector that allows use in tight spaces.

The USB connector is thin enough that two drives can be used at the same time in the tightly spaced USB ports found on laptops computers. The Passport Pocket Drive are powered by the computer so a separate power supply is not needed. An activity light on the drive glows when the drive is connected and flashes when the drive is storing data.

Passport Pocket Drives are available now at storefront and online retailers, and via the company’s online store. Estimated pricing for the Passport Pocket Drive 6GB capacity is $129 (£89).

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BIOS, Mar 30, 06 | Print | Send | Comments (0) | Posted In Backup