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The USB ORB

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PCQ Bureau
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The

USB ORB is a storage drive that uses a 2.2 GB disk. Since, it’s USB, it’s

fairly easy to set up on any machine with a USB port. It can be used for

carrying large files like graphics, multimedia presentations, CAD/CAM, MP3

audio, MPEG video, etc. So advertising agencies, studios, printing houses, etc,

which need to transfer huge files would find it useful.

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The 5,400 rpm drive comes in an attractive transparent

blue-green plastic case, and supports maximum transfer rates of 12.2 MB/sec.

When installed, it gets assigned a drive letter, and you can use it like an

ordinary hard drive.

As it functions like an ordinary drive, you can actually

install applications on it and run them as if they were running from a regular

hard drive. Of course, being a removable drive, you have to close any files that

are directly opened from it before you pull out the disk.

Besides the one we checked out, the drive exists in three

other variants–internal EIDE, and internal and external SCSI. All drives come

with the same set of tools–software for data backup, a tool that gives you an

Explorer-like interface to access your files (you can do this through Windows

Explorer too), ORB Tools, etc. ORB Tools didn’t work with the USB drive, so we

couldn’t check out what it was about.

The drive costs Rs 14,000 and the price for one disk is Rs

2,000. A pack of 10 disks turns out to be cheaper at



Rs 15,000.

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