Apricorn announces DriveWire Universal Hard Drive Adapter
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 12, 2007 at 12:32pm
Apricorn has released the US$39.99 DriveWire Universal Hard Drive Adapter, providing a USB connection to any 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch IDE or SATA hard drive. It’s compatible with Mac OS 9.2 and Mac OS X 10.2 and higher.
The DriveWire comes bundled with Apricorn’s Upgrade Suite, which features Shirt Pocket’s SuperDuper! for the Mac. When used together, DriveWire and SuperDuper! let you transfer OS, data, applications, documents, address books, e-mail, settings and preferences from an old drive to a new drive.
In addition to the Upgrade Suite, each DriveWire Universal Hard Drive Adapter comes with a USB 2.0 cable (USB 1.1 compatible) and UL Listed power adapter. The DriveWire incorporates three hard drive connections into its design, a SATA connector for new style hard drives, a 44-pin connector for 2.5-inch notebook IDE/PATA hard drives and a 40-pin connector for standard 3.5-inch desktop IDE/PATA hard drives, allowing you to connect a hard drive to any desktop or notebook computer with a USB 2.0 port.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
