200gig FireWire drives

[Paul Knight]

Hi folks again,
The yet to appear 200 gig drive I mentioned a couple of postings back 
is the Smart Disk Fire Power:
Go to:        http://www.smartdisk.com/

I quote from the news release:
San Francisco, CA, January 7, 2003 - SmartDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: 
SMDK) today introduced a new line of high performance desktop hard 
drives that connect to Apple's computers using the new, higher speed, 
800 Mbit/sec FireWire standard. SmartDisk FirePower is being 
showcased in Booth 1142, The Moscone Center at Macworld Expo, San 
Francisco, January 7-10, and in Booth 30175, South 4 Hall, The Las 
Vegas Convention Center at International CES.

With a 3.5" mechanism and a capacity of 200 GB, FirePower is designed 
to store extremely large files with ease, such as those created with 
digital video authoring software and other multimedia applications. 
FirePower operates with FireWire 800 or standard FireWire 
400-equipped Macintosh computers as well as Windows-based USB2.0 
personal computers. Housed in an attractive white case, FirePower 
features a 7200-rpm mechanism with an 8-megabyte cache and the new 
Oxford 922 high performance bridge chip.

"FireWire 800 sets the stage for a huge leap in the speed of data 
transfer between Mac platforms and their peripherals,"



Another interesting product for saving video data is announced by Sony.  go to:
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/18.sony.php
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