MCE announces 250GB mobile drive upgrade

MCE Technologies on Monday announced its MobileStor Performance line of hard drive upgrade solutions for the MacBook Pro and MacBook with capacities up to 250GB. Along with a high-performance, high-capacity 2.5-inch SATA hard drive, each MCE MobileStor Performance hard drive upgrade solution includes an external, portable 2.5-inch SATA enclosure with both eSATA and USB 2.0 interfaces facilitating easy data transfer from the original drive; the upgrades also include SuperDuper! cloning/backup software, all tools required for installation, and an illustrated installation manual. Pricing starts at $130 for the 100GB/7200RPM model to $280 for the 250GB/5400RPM model. All capacities of the MobileStor Performance mobile drive upgrade line are shipping now except the 250GB model which is scheduled to ship June 1. The company also offers a value-oriented line of 5400-rpm based MobileStore mobile drive upgrades.

"The MobileStor Performance total hard drive upgrade solution provides not only unprece-dented hard drive capacities for the MacBook Pro and MacBook, but also provides every single piece of equipment necessary to successfully complete the hard drive upgrade and transfer all information from the original drive to the new one. It also allows for the continued use of the original SATA hard drive for backing up or general portable external storage," stated Arnold Ramirez, president of MCE.

The MCE MobileStor Performance Hard Drive Upgrade Solution for the MacBook Pro and MacBook features ultra-high performance SATA drives with the following capacities and rotational speeds: 100GB/7200RPM, 120GB/7200RPM, 160GB/5400RPM, 160GB/7200RPM, and 250GB/5400RPM. All drives feature maximum sustained data transfer rates of at least 66MB/ sec and burst transfer rates of at least 150MB/sec. The drives also feature Native Command Queing (NCQ) in which the drive automatically reorders commands in the most efficient way.

In addition, S.M.A.R.T. status monitoring is also supported among all drives and can warn of possible or impending disk failure long before one actually occurs allowing the user to take early action to keep their data safe. The drives' S.M.A.R.T. status can be verified using Apple's Disk Utility or System Profiler program.

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