Cms Peripherals Fattens Notebook Capacities To 30gb Profile Stays Slim - Company Business and Marketing

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, August 14, 2000

CMS Peripherals, will expand their complete line of 2.5-inch notebook storage products to include 20GB and 30GB solutions. The new higher capacity hard drives will be integrated into the entire 2.5-inch line of CMS products including the Automatic Backup Solutions (ABS -- both PCMCIA and USB versions), Easy-Plug Easy-Go (EPEG) notebook hard drives and EasyBundle (notebook hard drive and data transfer kit).

Physically much smaller than previous generation drives, the new two-platter 20GB drives have a thickness of only 9.5mm and the three-platter 30GB drives measure only 12.5mm. These slimmer dimensions enable CMS to nearly double the capacities of their solutions, without altering pre-existing hardware configurations.

The new 20 and 30GB 2.5-inch hard drives will be integrated into CMS Peripherals existing product line including: Automatic Backup System for Notebooks (PCMCIA Interface) --About the size of a deck of playing cards, the Automatic Backup System (ABS) offers capacities of 6GB to 30GB. Upon insertion, the ABS instantly and automatically backs up files from the user's hard drive. After the initial backup, the ABS seeks out and copies only the changed files on the user's system saving time and battery usage.