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[PSUs]| Monday 15th January 2001 |
The M2 features a 2.5in hard drive mechanism in a cleverly designed case allowing multiple drives to be stacked. 'We need to offer something that's more than just a simple storage device,' said Pierre Abboud, vice president of QPS. 'This is a product that will fuse different markets from digital camcorder storage all the way up to high-end storage servers.'
The drives, available in 6Gb, 10Gb, 20Gb, 30Gb or 40Gb configurations, connect to the Mac's FireWire port and draw their power from the FireWire bus, meaning an external power supply is not required. Two additional FireWire ports, one on the top and one on the bottom, enable the drives to be connected when snapped together, and share the same power source. Up to five drives can be stacked in
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Each drive comes with an accessory kit with the mobile user in mind. 'Most companies say it is safe to drop their portable hard drives, but this is only true when the drive is not in operation, so the mechanism is not in motion,' said Abboud. The M2's suction cup can be clipped to the bottom of the drive, allowing it to be fixed securely to the desk or even the back of a PowerBook. The rubber suction device also acts as a shock absorber. The M2 also comes with a belt clip for very space-limited environments such as on a plane.
The D2 drive combines two devices in a single bus-powered enclosure. It will be available in a number of configurations but QPS expects the most popular to be a 10Gb hard drive combined with an LS-240 SuperDisk drive. The LS-240 drive can read 240Mb and 120Mb SuperDisks as well as standard floppy disks. It also has the unique ability to reformat a 1.44Mb floppy disk to 32Mb. Furthermore, Abboud claims that the LS-240 drive is vastly improved over its LS-120 predecessor, and can match Iomega's Zip 250 drive in terms of speed.
The M2 drive is available immediately; the D2 is expected to ship in February. UK pricing is to be confirmed. Further information is available at www.qps-inc.com.
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