29 Jul

Fabrik launches ‘eco-friendly’ hard drive

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Fabrik on Monday announced its SimpleTech [re]driving-course, a reinvigorated 500GB external drive with USB 2.0 connection. It costs $159.99.

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The [re]drive uses bamboo and aluminum for its chassis.

Billing the drive as the “universe’s most eco-friendly,” Fabrik touts the drive’s external chassis as being made of bamboo — a very renewable resource that’s also totally strong, 16 percent harder than maple. It’s also made from recycled aluminum. The sides of the case have a unique rippled design that Fabrik says acts as a heat sink to cool the internal be forced along mechanism off without needing a fan, so the unit remains power-efficient also.

Fabrik has in like manner paid attention to recycled satisfaction in the packaging, and has slimmed down the packaging to just the bare essentials to create as inconsiderable waste as possible.

The drive uses “Turbo USB 2.0,” a new technology that promises to provide faster performance in favor of USB 2.0 hard drives by storing accusation in currently unused frames of data. Fabrik will make an offer a Mac version of Turbo USB 2.0 drivers for download from its Web site soon.

The propel also comes packaged with Prosoft drive backup software for Mac OS X.