Friday, June 25, 2004
ExtremeTECH: "HP Designs Removable HD For Media PCs"
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 09:00 AM
"On Monday, Hewlett-Packard introduced a "Media Drive", an external hard drive that can be easily inserted and removed from an HP computer to provide additional storage. Users will be able to insert and remove the $299, 160-Gbyte Media Drive into a special storage bay designed into the a new PhotoSmart m1000 PC that HP will introduce on Monday. However, the cartridge-shaped removable drive will also serve as a standalone hard drive and can be connected to other PCs via its integrated USB2 interface."
This sounds so much like the Iomega Rev drive, except I believe that the Rev could only do 35GB while the HP unit appears to be able to do 160GB. Of course when I searched for the m1000 PC, all I found were drives that had 80GB removable hard drive cartridges. Perhaps vendors don't have the 160GB units yet. Anyways, what I found interesting from the article is that even though the hard drives can store files/folders from a regular computer much like any hard drive media, it seems like HP is aiming this Media Drive at PVRs since the sealed units are notorious for running out of space.
This sounds so much like the Iomega Rev drive, except I believe that the Rev could only do 35GB while the HP unit appears to be able to do 160GB. Of course when I searched for the m1000 PC, all I found were drives that had 80GB removable hard drive cartridges. Perhaps vendors don't have the 160GB units yet. Anyways, what I found interesting from the article is that even though the hard drives can store files/folders from a regular computer much like any hard drive media, it seems like HP is aiming this Media Drive at PVRs since the sealed units are notorious for running out of space.
