Description:

This item is a brand new high quality 500GB external portable eSATA II hard drive, the enclosure is a stylish aluminium with an LED activity light also fitted with a silent fan for hard drive cooling. This unit is also shock proof and has data protection incase of minor knocks and bangs.

The drive plugs directly into your eSATA port on back of computer or into the standard USB ports on your computer and shows as an external drive under my computer for ease of us, we even format the drive for you so all you do is plug in and the drive is ready for use.

The new eSATA interface provides data transfer speeds up to 3GB/sec. As more and more people are working with large files such as DTP/graphical files and uncompressed video and audio. The need for a hard drive with high speed data transfer is more important then ever. 

Connected to eSATA, hard drives can perform at up to 6x times faster than a standard USB2.0 hard drive.

This drive is so simple to use being plug and play and has many uses including

- Important Data backup
- Storage of Music, MP3, Movies and other downloads.
- Adding additional storage to laptop
- Adding additional storage to PC without needing to open PC
- Portable to can take anywhere including friends, university, work etc
- Excellent for DJ's and students.

Contents Of Package:

Everything needed to get started is supplied including all leads and cables. We test every drive that we sell and also format so its ready to just be taken out of box and plugged into computer and work straight away. The dimensions of the drive are Width 12.2cm Depth 21.6cm and Height 3.3cm.

This is a list of all the items you will recieve :-

- 500 Gig 3.5" HDD eSATA II Drive
- Serial ATA (SATA) cable (THE ESATA CABLE IS NOT INCLUDED JUST THE USB)
- SATA Backplate
- USB A-B type cable
- Installation/driver CD
- Manual
- 5V/2A + 12V/2A switching power adapter
- AC power cable
- Installation screws + screwdriver
- Plastic stand


Is It Easy To Use:

Yes very easy to use, basically when you recieve the external hard drive all you need to do is unpack, plug power into wall, usb into computer and turn on. The drive should auto detect and show under my computer as an external drive and be ready to use as any other drive on your computer its really that easy no expert computer knowledge is required.


Compatibility:

- Windows 98SE
- Windows 2000
- Windows ME
- Windows XP Home and Pro
- Mac OS and OSX

This drive will work with any computer with usb ports either USB 1 or usb 2. The drive will work faster under USB 2. We also sell USB 2.0 PCI and PCMCIA cards.

**PLEASE NOTE THERE MAY BE A 2 DAY LEAD TIME BEFORE DISPATCH AS WE NEED TO BUILT AND TEST THIS PRODUCT.