Fabrik Unveils New Portable Hard Drives

LAS VEGAS -- Portable storage is all the rage. Fabrik is among the many vendors introducing new portable hard drives at the show. For Fabrik, its SimpleTech Signature Mini USB 2.0 Portable Drives get a facelift for 2008.

The Signature Mini, from Italian design firm Pininfarina, features a retooled look and feel coupled with fresh, elegant colors so you can personal your portable storage to match your tastes.

Since Fabrik sees 250GB as being the sweet spot of portable storage, the company says it will offer the $200 250GB model in four colors--Marshmallow white, Kiwi green, pale Cool Mint blue, and Bubblegum Pink.

Elsewhere, the other colors in the line represent different capacities: 120GB in Espresso, for $120; 160GB in Blueberry blue, for $140; and 320GB in Black Cherry maroon, for $300.

The drives will ship in February, and will include Fabrik's Ultimte Backup software for backing up to the Web and to online, as well as 2GB of free online storage; a Mac version of the software will ship in the first quarter.

Even though the drives are bus-powered, they come with a longer USB-Y cable to make it easier to draw power from two USB 2.0 ports; sometimes, the extra power is necessary, since some notebooks don't pipe enough power out to the USB ports.

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