Siwara Systems SW 20GB

A pocket Hard drive from Siwara.

More and more small, pocket sized external hard drives are hitting the shelves. The SW Pocket drive from Siwara Systems is available in 20, 40, 60 and 80GB versions.

It measures 12.4 by 7.3 by 1.8cm and comes in an ABS shell that can resist shocks of up to 800g/ms. The whole package weighs a mere 160g so it lives up to its pocket label.

The drive itself is a 2.5in Ultra ATA/100 disk with either a USB 2.0 or FireWire interface, the one we looked at had USB) and is powered though the USB or FireWire port.

Provided with the drive are a useful selection of utilities. SW Backup lets you choose which files to back up. If you select the same files again, the software will back up only those files that have been modified since the last backup.

SW Format is a formatting and partitioning tool that works under both Windows and Mac.

SW VDCS allows the drive to be used as a virtual optical drive. CDs and DVDs can be copied to the drive and then accessed as if they were on the original media.

Contact: HKi Systems (0845) 644 5333
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