It is rather rare to serarch the word 'cute' related with something as basically mundane as a obliterable storage drive, but that is definitely the great word to sum up the Shark 250. In what looks to be a swift evoke the erects to the wishes of Iomega and Syquest, US company Avatar has established this small movable machine, with a storage capacity that belies its size.


As can be checked from our photograph under, which depicts the Shark 250 follow to a box of copes with, this is not a especially big product. As a matter of fact, it will set rather comfortably into the palm of your hand, when its compact 2.5” disks, known HARDiskettes, are little sufficient to be concealed in a shirt pocket. Yet every disk can hold 250MB of information – that is 2 and a 1/2 times as much as a Zip disk, in far low physical place. A individual HARDiskette is provided with the drive.


What is not very little, however, is the cable gathering for the drive. We expecteds at the comparable port edition, which has a chunky pass-by link for a printer, and must too be hooked up to the keyboard port in order to get its

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ability. The similar placement is true of the SCSI edition, but the Computer Card (PCMCIA) unit is free from such clutter, with the notebook interface too acting as a power connector.


The Shark 250 is not just little and broad, but it is quick, also. Based on hard drive technology, with the platters inner the cartridge and the heads inner the drive, the little drive has a ranged access time of 12ms, with peak information transfer rates mentioned as 1.2MB/sec for the comparable port edition, 2.0MB/sec for the Computer Card (PCMCIA) unit and 2.5MB/sec for the SCSI different. In fact, the common drive is the similar in entire cases; Just the cables are dissimilar, so you can purchase one drive and alter to a other interface at a follow date if you like. Avatar's drive is provided with drivers for DOS/Windows 3.1x and Windows 95, and the company adds lot of software uses with the Shark 250, such as NovaDisk Lite Backup, Computer Crypto and WebScan from McAfee, and DocuMagix HotPage Plus.


Until such time as Iomega looks set to establish its Clik drive in the UK, or few other as-yet unfamiliar to removable drive technology arrives, the Avatar Shark 250 will stay the cutest storage machines on the market.