Features

• Fast 500GB Disk Drive
• Fastest Oxford 934 Firewire chipset
• Solid aluminium body - 3 Way Cooling
• Self powered from USB2 port
• Self powered from Firewire 800 port
• Can be used as Apple Mac Boot Disk
• 2-Year Warranty

Description

The revolution is happening... you can now get performance and portability!  Using the latest laptop-sized 2.5" disk drives you can now get performance close to that of full size external desktop disk drives,  yet in a pocketable size that is powered by firewire or USB2.

Perfect for Apple Mac Professional users or PC users, this product is ideally suited to professional video and audio editors and photographers, who need the performance and compatibility of the Oxford 934 chipset... the best on the market.

Look at the performance graphs below... over 68MB/s read speeds through firewire.  And on the full PCMark05 tests of real world performance, the disk drive has 84.4% of the performance of the full sized Pleiades Firewire 800 external disk drive with Oxford 924 chipset which has a desktop 500GB disk drive inside.

The enclosure is made of solid aluminium with unique 3-way cooling (see details below) enabling heat to be dissipated from the disk so you can use it for extended periods without any danger of overheating. The disk is practically silent both when idle and when in operation.

The product has a 2 year warranty.

Contents

• KC21 Firewire 800/USB2 Hard Disk Enclosure, with
• Seagate Momentus 500GB 2.5" 5400rpm 8MB cache
• Solid Aluminium Body
• Oxford 934 chipset
• USB 2.0 Data Cable (Approx 30cm)
• Firewire 800 Data Cable 9-pin to 9-pin (Approx 30cm)
• On/Off switch
• Quality Travel Wallet
• Mains Power Adaptor, 5V, 2A
• Has Euro 2-pin plug + UK 3-pin Adaptor
• Only needed in situations where firewire/usb2 power insufficient, 
• or with PC laptops using unpowered 4-pin firewire

Specifications

Performance

Sequential Read/Write Performance:

• Performance measured with "Performance Test v4" by www.passmark.com

PC Mark 05 Disk Performance:

KC21 320GB 5400	KC21 500GB 5400	Pleiades 500GB FW400	Pleiades 500GB FW800
KC21 with Seagate 320GB Firewire 800 5400rpm Disk	KC21 with Seagate 500GB Firewire 800 5400rpm Disk	Full Size Pleiades Seagate 500GB Firewire 400 7200rpm Disk	Full Size Pleiades Seagate 500GB Firewire 800 7200rpm Disk
FIREWIRE 800  POWER	FIREWIRE 800  POWER	MAINS POWER	MAINS POWER

We have measured the performance of this KC21 drive, using the firewire 800 interface. This performance measures REAL LIFE disk performance with simulations of starting the Operating System, loading applications, and general writing and reading data.   So the relative performance gives an indication of the difference you should expect between various products.

Performance shown as relative percentage of highest marks: 

These figures show that this KC21 with Seagate 500GB 5400rpm disk is 84.4% of the Pleiades firewire 800 big desktop external disk drive, and almost the same as the Pleiades firewire 400 version.