Ever need serious removable storage on the road? If so, check out Sony's new MDH-10 portable MD DATA Drive, an elegant appliance barely larger than a cassette. The MDH-10 reads and writes to removable 140-meg discs a quarter the size of a standard CD. Best of all, it runs on an internal battery as well as an external charger/power supply. This feature alone makes the MDH-10 uniquely useful to road warriors.
The MDH-10 is the data version of Sony's MiniDisc system and, thus, has the same stringent format standards and incredible vibration resistance. Out of curiosity, I put my MDH-10 on the passenger seat and found it as reliable as the car MiniDisc player, which has been a fixture under my dashboard for two years.
The only hitch is that while the MDH-10 will record data, it can't record audio. The MDH-10 retails at US$470, but it's worth every penny. I promptly unloaded my Bernoulli after giving the MDH-10 a spin.
Sony MDH-10: US$469.95. Sony Electronics Inc.: (800) 352 7669, +1 (408) 432 0190.
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