FireWire?

looks like an iLink connector? (not powered!) too bad, Mac users will need to carry their bulky power adapter with them to power the drive... or use the slow USB port...

iLink is Firewire. It's just Sony's name for it. Although, yes, I too am always sad to see another product that refuses to draw power from firewire.

I have a 40GB 1,8" Hard Drive. It is a "LaCie Data Bank". It features both bus-powered FireWire 6pin and USB 2.0 connectivity! No need for power adapter, and in addition, my DataBank (Designed by Porsche! ) looks great next to my Powerbook.

Is it just me, or is there no mention of the actual SIZE of this drive? That's kinda a pertinent factoid, seeing as the article is titled, "IOGEAR Announces Industry's Smallest External Hard Drive."

Maybe somebody could tell us the dimensions? Pretty please? I know it's a 1.8" drive, and I could maybe guess at the size based on that, but seeing as how "I'll Get my Mac News Here From Now On,' I'd prefer it if you just told me.

I mean, come ON!

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Guest wrote:
Is it just me, or is there no mention of the actual SIZE of this drive? That's kinda a pertinent factoid, seeing as the article is titled, "IOGEAR Announces Industry's Smallest External Hard Drive."

Maybe somebody could tell us the dimensions? Pretty please? I know it's a 1.8" drive, and I could maybe guess at the size based on that, but seeing as how "I'll Get my Mac News Here From Now On,' I'd prefer it if you just told me.

I mean, come ON!

You are right, Guest. Unfortunately, IOGEAR only made a very small amount of information available via their press release. I actually had to take a picture of a unit they happened to have on hand, since no art is yet available.

I'll be sure to stop by tomorrow and get some measurements. I'm assuming that the claim, which they made, is accurate. I actually have a LaCie Pocket Drive, and both that and the Data Bank mentioned earlier are definitely larger than the IOGEAR unit.

Without specs on actual size, I might as well buy a Firefly from SmartDisk. Saying it don't mean squat if you can't back it up - ask people who thought they would have a 3Ghz machine by now.....

This is a HUGE issue for this type of product. Without computer-provided power, you're stuck with a power brick to operate it, which makes it a whole lot LESS useful for powerbook users, assuming these assumptions are correct.

-dave

Has anyone got the full specs of this drive yet? I have tired to look at it on IOGEAR's site but there is nothing as of 17/07/04. I noted that the staff said they would try ti get more on the actural size but I see no responce to this statment. What is going on?

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Has anyone got the full specs of this drive yet? I have tired to look at it on IOGEAR's site but there is nothing as of 17/07/04. I noted that the staff said they would try ti get more on the actural size but I see no responce to this statment. What is going on?

Here's what the IOGEAR folks provided, thanks to someone in their main office pulling out a ruler and doing the work:

H 4.75" W 3.125" D 0.625"

A quick calculation based on other drives shows that the total volume of this drive is probably the smallest, with the largest dimension (5.75" on one of the LaCie units) being the most reduced.

Thanks for the info

I bought 2 of these drives and 10.3.2 drivers are no where to be found. Not on the CD that came w/ the product. Not on the website either! Without it, the drives are NOT recognized by the MacOS! Not even Apple's Disk utility sees it. Specifically, it's the GHD125C40 model. Worked great with the PC running XP though.

who made the fist USB Flash Drive what was there name?

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