No matter how much vendors of laptop hard disks try to harden their units against impact, if they remain in use long enough,laptops inevitably feel the jolts and shocks that are part of portability. As laptop hard drives get larger and larger, many laptop owners simply neglect to back up their data. Pocket Mirror-Drive, you have no excuse for your recklessness. The Pocket MirrorDrive is a very small unit that comes with a foot-long cable and PC Card. After you install it, your laptop will recognize it as a second hard drive.
Installation takes just minutes.
Insert the card in a PC Card slot, and Windows 95 or 98 recognizes the hardware and searches for the driver. DST's short instruction guide tells you to have the original Windows disks or CD-ROM available. The next step is to install DST's mirroring software from the two diskettes provided. This takes just another couple of minutes. We benchmarked the Pocket MirrorDrive against the bard drive in a new Dell Latitude using Michael's Disk Benchmark, a popular shareware test program.