By flung
WhiningDog.NET
12/07/2002

1. Introduction

External drives have been increasing in popularity in recent years with the advent of USB and Firewire connectors on most modern personal computers. If you wanted a great deal of disk space without opening up that system of yours, all you needed to do was to buy an external drive. Individuals looking for portability have also found solutions in the flash drive marketspace with a variety of USB flash drives. However portability often meant a sacrifice in drive space since flash drives usually maxed out at around 256 MB of space. Sure there were compact flash based Microdrives but they also top out after a few gigabytes. If you wanted oodles of space, you often needed larger enclosures that would forsake the portability aspect. A new external enclosure from a company called Enhance Technology hopes to bridge that gap by providing merging laptop oriented drives with USB/Firewire interfaces. The enclosure is called the Mini Portable Disk (MPD) and it houses a 2.5inch hard disk drive that is normally found in laptops. Using these small drives and a built in rechargeable battery the MCP hopes to provide portability, plenty of storage space and plug ‘n play operability in a small convenient package – let’s see how it fares

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