EZQuest debuts external FireWire/USB2 combo drives

EZQuest today unveiled its Monsoon FireWire/USB2 external high speed, high capacity hard drives and digital recorders. The DVD+/-RW drives allow writing to DVD+R and DVD-R media as well as new dual layer DVD+R that can hold up to 8.5GB of data or digital media, and can write to 650MB and 700MB CD-R and CD-RW media. The Monsoon external hard drives have a FireWire 400 and high speed USB 2.0 interface. They ship pre-formatted for the Mac and are easily reformatted for Windows and other systems. Monsoon hard drives are currently available with storage capacities of 80GB ($110), 160GB ($140), 200GB ($165), 250GB ($185) and 400GB ($390). The optical drives will include a one-year warranty and are expected to ship in September for $150.

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