A compact, self-contained, high-capacity, very rugged external storage solution for mobile computing environments
IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive
Highlights
Employs a rugged design and shock damping for drive reliability and durability
Provides high storage capacities (up to 10 GB) to meet growing mobile user requirements
Is plug-and-play compatible with any PC-format notebook that has a PC card (PCMCIA) slot1
Simplifies operation with selfloading installation, data backup, and drive mirroring software
Features a self-contained design that eliminates the need for a power cord or external storage media such as cartridges and diskettes
Provides higher performance— up to 2.0 MB/sec—than external devices that use parallel ports
Weighs only 12 ounces (340 g) and is small for easy portability
Uses field-proven, award-winning IBM Travelstar* mobile hard drives
A better way to keep up with data growth
If you’re like most notebook PC users, you probably find yourself having to delete files that you would rather keep. There never seems to be as much storage as you need. With the proliferation of storagehungry multimedia applications and the growing reliance on the Internet and e-mail applications, notebook hard drives are filling up faster than ever. Today, there is an easy way to add more storage to your system—quickly, easily, and affordably. With the new IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive, you don’t have to make the difficult decision of which files to keep and which to delete.
The IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive
Notebook PC users who need more storage have generally had three options: they can swap their internal hard drive with a higher capacity model, purchase a new PC with a higher capacity drive, or install external storage devices that use removable cartridges or CD-ROMs. All of these options have drawbacks. Installing a new hard drive in a notebook PC often requires expert assistance; purchasing a new PC can be rather expensive; and most external storage drives are expensive, have a greater susceptibility to shock and vibration, and rely on an external power source and media.
On the other hand, the IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive is a self-contained mobile storage solution designed especially for notebook PC environments. It provides superior ruggedness, capacity, and performance in a smaller form factor than desktop drives. And it is much more affordable than purchasing a new PC or external removable media drive of equivalent capacity. Because the IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive is a complete self-contained system, you don’t have to carry around an extra power cord or a stack of cartridges or disks.
The plug-and-play IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive is an easy-to-install, easy-to-use solution for adding mobile high-capacity storage to any notebook PC with a PCMCIA card slot. Two capacity points are available—8 GB and 10 GB—both of which provide an impressive price per GB. With superior shock and vibration performance, fast data transfer, and quiet operation, these drives are ideal for even the most demanding environments.
The IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive with PCMCIA attachment
A versatile external storage solution
The versatility of the IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive enables it to fulfill a variety of user needs, such as data backup and archiving. Backup is simple with easy- to-use preloaded software tools. And you can easily transport large data files simply by plugging in the IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive to another PC.
The high storage capacities enable you to store today’s popular MP3, video, and multimedia files that can quickly consume all the storage in many hard drives. As a bonus, you don’t have to worry about shuffling through a pile of cartridges or CDs to find the specific files you want— they can all remain in one place on the IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive.
The IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive can also help reduce security risks. For instance, if you are presenting a series of presentations at a conference, you can store sensitive data as encrypted files on a single IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive rather than printing it in hardcopy or storing it on various cartridges, CDs, or notebook PCs.
Easy installation and use
The IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drive is a complete plug-and-play solution that you can set up in just a few minutes. In fact, no driver diskettes or CDs are needed for the installation.1 The one-time installation takes only a few minutes and offers the choice of installing “lite” preloaded software, such as popular MP3 “ripper” software and data backup/archiving applications. With the preloaded software, you get a fast, reliable data backup or drive mirroring solution right out of the box.
IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drives are also very easy to use.The small form factor and light weight make them easy to transport. And there are no external power cables or cartridges to worry about. You simply attach the PCMCIA card to the notebook and you are ready to begin.
The increasing demand for storage capacity
In the past few years, several trends have combined to drive up the need for higher storage capacity:
Memory-intensive applications—Most PCs running a Windows** operating system and standard Internet browser, word processing, spreadsheet, and organization software require 500 MB (or 0.5 GB) of storage just for those applications. Add a few more applications, and you can quickly fill many smaller hard drives.
Proliferation of data from new sources—The Internet, intranets, extranets, e-mail, multimedia, and other digital audio and video applications (such as MP3, 3-D design, 3-D animated graphics, and photography manipulation) have become commonplace for most notebook users. As a result, storage requirements have increased almost exponentially. For example, just one minute of uncompressed video requires 1.6 to 2.0 GB of storage.
Increased reliance on information as a tool—Through business intelligence, data mining, and data warehouse applications, more businesses are turning their raw data into valuable information. In order to do this more efficiently, many businesses are setting up dedicated Storage Area Networks (SANs) and data warehouses that enable business intelligence operations. In turn, notebook users find themselves conducting information management tasks in a similar manner with their own personal databases—which ultimately requires a greater investment in storage.
Expanded use of mobile hard drives—Many mobile drives are now being used in non-IT industries where storage requirements have increased due to the growth of information appliances with computing capabilities, such as printers, fax machines, commercial point-of-sale terminals, and medical testing products. Because of their lighter weight, smaller size, and superior ruggedness compared to desktop drives, mobile drives are an ideal choice for handling storage needs for a wide variety of commercial and industrial applications.
With their ruggedness, high performance, and industry-leading capacities, IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drives address these varied requirements to provide a highly reliable mobile storage solution.
Unsurpassed reliability and performance
Because IBM Travelstar E External Hard Drives are much faster than other external drives that rely on removable media, they are ideal for running real-time online presentations, games, photo albums, and videos. The sustained data throughput rate of PCMCIA channels at 2 MB/sec is much higher than competitive products that use parallel port attachment at sustained throughput rates of only 200 to 300 KB/sec.
A lightweight, high-capacity storage device for notebook PCs
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