The Addonics SuperDisk drive gets its power directly from the PC Card in most cases. On some of the older portables, the PC Card interface may not have enough power to run the drive. There is a switch on the back of the drive to choose between the power supplied by the PC Card or an external power supply. If there is no keyboard port available or it does not deliver the five volts necessary to run the drive, you can purchase an external power supply from Addonics that will solve the problem. In most cases, however, this will not be necessary.
Disks are available from a number of retail outlets or directly from Imation on their Web site.
This system has lots of applications. Users who routinely move between systems can easily carry a huge amount of data on a single disk. It is easy to download massive Internet, multimedia and graphics files onto a SuperDisk. Backing up becomes easy with this system. Portables, especially, present unique backup problems as tape drives are not convenient when on the go.