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SimpleTech of Santa Ana, California, manufactures a 5GB PC Card hard drive that fits any Type-II card slot, eliminating the need for an external hard drive, removable cartridge media or CD-RW for backup. Operating at low power consumption for longer battery life, this particular drive is hot-swappable, offers up to 120 Megabytes per second transfer rate and is compatible with several digital cameras that use PC Card storage. The 5GB PC Card hard drive is designed for smooth connectivity and cross-platform inter-operability.
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A new line of Sony tape-based and network-attached storage systems allows hospitals and medical facilities to archive and access patient data in centralized and decentralized storage environments. This family of storage solutions includes the Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT-3) drive, the StorStation AIT Library 162 (model LIB-162/A3) and a high-performance NAS system. With these drives, doctors can store digital images and files from PACS, radiological scans and patient records. The AIT-3 and 162 models feature 100GB of native data capacity-260GB compressed-and a native data transfer rate of 12 MB.
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