F irewireDirect has announced and released a new 320 GB FireWire drive. The unit uses a single 5400 RPM hard drive, and sports two FireWire ports and a USB 2.0 port. From FirewireDirect:
FirewireDirect.com, Inc has debuted new 320 Gigabyte FireWire and Combo FireWire USB 2.0 hard drives, the only high performance hard drive systems to break the 300 drive barrier, supplying 320GB of top speed FireWire or USB 2.0 storage in a single external drive and a beautiful sapphire blue chassis.
Like all of FirewireDirectis Ultra III hard drive products, the drive employs the fastest available mechanism supported in todayis external drives, and boasts the latest edition of the speedy Oxford 911 FireWire bridge board. It has two 1394a ports, and the combo edition includes a high speed USB 2.0 connector.
Those ordering for Mac will receive the SpeedTools Utility Suite disk management tools , including DeviceTuner, Disk Defrag, Integrity, QuickBack and QuickBench.
You can get more information on the drive at FirewireDirectis Web site. The unit is priced at US$469, and is available now.