Computer Times
February 2007

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Reviewed by Terrance Kibiloski

How many times have you wished you could quickly backup, transfer, or take a large portion of your hard drive on the road with you? Or maybe you were on vacation and you wanted to download tons of photos to a portable storage device. If this sounds familiar, US Modular's 12 GB Monstor Drive (Retail $129) is exactly what you need.

Made of stainless steel, this Monstor Drive is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, yet large enough to hold tens of thousands of data files. With the onboard USB 2.0 port, files transfers are fast and easy. It is ideal for music, video, and picture files, or even redundant storage for irreplaceable data. This Monstor Drives requires no external power and is both Mac and PC compatible. This USB drive is an ideal mobile mass storage medium for executives, road warriors, students or anyone on the go.

• 12GB high-capacity, high-performance USB Portable Micro Drive
• Industry standard USB 2.0 interface
• Reliable storage performance for any device with a USB port, including PCs, digital media players, handheld computers & other portable devices
• Low power consumption
• 1500G shock resistance rating
• Ultra lightweight & compact (weight 16 grams)
• Media type: Glass
• Rotational speed: 4,200 RPM
• Media transfer rate: 52.4-99.6 Mbits/sec
• Transfer rate: 3.3-6.5 Mbytes/sec
• Seek time (avg.): 10 msec
• Error rate (unrecoverable): 1 per bit
• Head load/unload cycles: 300,000
• Voltage: 3.3/5.0 VDC +/- 5% Auto Detect
• Current (write): 275 mA
• Current (idle): 18 mA
• Dimensions: 42.8 X 36.4 X 5.0 mm
• Temperature: 0° to 65° C operating
• Relative humidity: 8 to 90% operating
• Shock (half sine): 175G (2ms) operating
• Vibration (swept sine): 1G 0-pk (5-500 Hz) operating
• One Year Warranty

U.S. Modular 12GB USB Portable Flash Drive

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