Speedzter2.5 -- A Pocket External HD Drive with Dual interfaces FireWire/IEEE 1394 and USB

The First Dual interface FireWire & USB External pocket HD for PC and MAC.

Santa Ana, California - Oct 28 2001 -- DAT Optic Inc. today announced the availability of the New Speedzter2.5 --Pocket External HD Drive with Dual interfaces FireWire/IEEE 1394 and USB

DAT Optic Inc. a leading developer and manufacture of Optical storage and CD/DVD duplication products today introduced their newest line of Speedzter2.5 -- A Pocket External HD Drive with Dual interfaces FireWire/IEEE 1394 and USB

Imagine a drive with the size of your palm, fits perfectly in your pocket, capable of storing up to 48GB and transfer data as a blazing speed 30MB/sec. Truly hot plug-able, hot swap-able into Windows98SE, ME, 2K, XP, MAC OS 8.6 or later, and Linux kernel 2.4.2 computers and it power directly from the FireWire Connection.

Welcome to the world of freedom from extra power supplies and power cords tango scenarios.

Our Speezter2.5 offers the utmost flexibility and superior performance.

FireWire and USB connectivity:
Speedzter2.5 comes with a set of connections: FireWire, iLink, and UBS. Our Speedzter2.5 internal circuitry provides a fully IEEE 1394 compliant link layer, while integrating the 1394 physical interface (PHY) and The USB bridge provide an EHCI based USB 1.1 compliant solution, both would connect with ATA interface, with these Speedster2.5 can be connect to most the current computer today.

Lower Power Consumption and self powered
Our Speedzter2.5 has a built-in a switching voltage regulator to self powered, regulate and supplies to the internal circuitry a optimum voltage level. Also realizing our Speedzter2.5 is a portable device and can be powered by the NoteBook battery, low power consumption is our engineer's goal. As the end result our Speezter2.5 only needs 2.8 -/+ .2 Watts to read and write, this makes Speedzter2.5 is one of the lowest power consumption External Hard Drive in the market.

Superior Performance
Equipped with the high performance 5400 rpm and ATA-100 interface internal 2.5 in Hard Drive Our Speedzter2.5 oofer up to 48GB of storage space, which can accomodate a more than 2 hr of captureing DVD quality video stream at 6MB/sec. or a library of more than (9000) nine thousand songs in MP3 format. Although it fit in a palm but our Speedzter2.5 can transfer date at rate of unprecedented 30MB/sec. Video rendering/capturing--to-go makes possible with our Speedzter2.5

Availability, Pricing and Warranty
The DAT Optic Inc. Speedzter2.5 are currently available for shipping. Estimated U.S. retail prices of
P/N: Speedzter2.5-20: External Bus Powered FireWire/UBS 20GB Hard Drives - SRP $319.00
P/N: Speedzter2.5-30: External Bus Powered FireWire/UBS 30GB Hard Drives - SRP $429.00
P/N: Speedzter2.5-48: External Bus Powered FireWire/UBS 48GB Hard Drives - SRP $699.00

DAT Optic Inc. offers technical service, Monday through Saturday, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., along with a three year limited warranty from original date of purchase of our Speedzter2.5.

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Press Contacts:
Sam Quach
DAT Optic, Inc.
(714) 558 1808
email: SamQ@DATOptic.com "