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Dual-G Aluminum Enclosure
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Manufacturer: CoolGear
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Part Number: DualG
Warranty: 1 Year
In Stock: Yes
Ship Weight: 4 lbs.
Color Metallic-Aluminum
Size: 190 x 118 x 65 mm
Platform:   OSX

Reg. Price: $199.99
Our Price: $129.99
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Product Details:

A hard drive enclosure that offers superb performance and does it while looking great next to your Mac.

The combination of FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ensures compatibility where ever you go including Windows computers.

Product Highlights

  • Supports FireWire 800 and USB 2.0
  • Requires no drivers on both OSX 10.1+ and Windows XP, 2000, ME
  • Supports a vast array of 3.5" standard hard drives up to 400GB capacity
  • Easy to plug in an setup
  • Includes a FireWire repeater so that you can plug other FireWire 800 devices for daisychain
  • Rigid aluminum body provides device protection
Dual Fan / Dual Drive Enclosure
The Dual-G supports having two standard 3.5" hard drives installed. One drive is set to Master the other to Slave. When both drives are installed the OS will show you two seperate drives. The stylish front grill has a dual purpose, one, it matches your existing PowerMac wonderfully and two, a front mounted fan draws in cool air. While a second fan in the rear exhausts hot air. Keeping your hard drives cool and performing at their peak.
Transfer files between Windows and OSX
The Dual-G can be plugged into any OSX based Macintosh and Windows based computer. If you need to transfer data with a Windows XP, 2000, ME computer you'll be glad to know that the unit is instantly detected and requires no drivers. If you wish to have windows machines write to the hard drive you will have to format the drive in a windows compatible file system.

Mac Mini and Powerbook Performance Boost
All powerbooks come standard with a 2.5" hard drive. 2.5" drives typically spin betweenn 4200rpms and 5400rpms, while a typical 3.5" hard drive spins at 7200 rpms which allows for a performance boost. OSX offers a feature to boot from an external FireWire hard drive. Using this enclosure, which uses a 3.5" hard drive, you get the performance gains of a large drive. You also don't have to throw away the internal 2.5" drive, you can still use it to store data if you want to. Use one of the drives in the Dual-G as a bootable system drive and you can plug in another one to provide you with huge amounts of data storage.

Package Contents:
One Dual-G Metallic-Aluminum Enclosure (3.5" HDD Support)
(1) FireWire 800 cable
(1) External Power Adapter

Technical Specifications:
Chipset Oxford 912 (FireWire 800 1394b)
HDD Support Two 3.5" ATA IDE Standard Hard Drive s
IDE Spec Compliant with ATA-6 LBA-48 bit (greater than 137GB)
IDE Transfer Rate UDMA 66/100/133

 

 
 
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