So, instead of putting a drive in every system (a significant expense even forĪ small number of systems), a much smaller number of external drives can be
With many workstations that only rarely need to read or write an optical disk. Portable optical drives are probably most useful to small or medium sized businesses But, opticalĭrives do not need to be portable to have this advantage: The discs they useĪre already portable. Large amounts of data can be moved between computers in this way. In the case of hard drives, it’s fairly obvious why you’d want it to be portable:
The Octopus PC: It’s an external DVD burner with all the bells and whistles The Samsung Writemaster adds yet another tentacle to These devices use a single wire to connect to the PC at the center To become portable, including hard drives and optical drives. The day of the Octopus PC has arrived! High speed interfaces such as FirewireĪnd USB 2.0 have made it possible for all kinds of components
