20Gb USB2.0 external hard drive from IBM

[bonkers325]

IBM 09N4211 is a part of Rapid Restore PC ideology enabling users to keep an optimal notebook or PC configuration image for fast recovery. This 4200rpm 20Gb drive features 2Mb buffer, 12ms seek time and provides 900Kb/s read, 700Kb/s write.

Measured 76x142x16mm and weighing 241g, the drive can work under Windows 2000/XP. The price is expected to be around $300.

IBM is to release a new 20Gb USB2.0 hard drive to arrive to Japan late in April

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[corkyg]

Hmmm! I just got a second new IBM Travel Star 5400 rpm drive for my notebook from NewEgg for $150. I got a 2nd HDD tray and caddy module that interchanges with the floppy/LS-120 drive, and I use Drive Copy 4 with a bootable CD to clone my laptop drive every week. I periodically swap them - but I always have a complete backup HDD ready to go with no restoration necessary.

Before I found a laptop with a removable 2nd drive option, I used a PCMCIA interface that would accept any HDD and then Explorer did the deed, but a lot slower. $300 is a lot of money for a $100 drive and a $75 interface.

And with $5 adapters, we can duplicate 2.5" drives in any desktop computer.