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Rys Asks: How Do I Setup My Disks?

23 November 2006, 08:41

I've now got six SATA disks and eight ports to plug them in to, but across two different disk controllers, and I'm pondering the best way to set them all ...

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Lite-On to launch world's fastest DVD burner (20x). But why?

22 November 2006, 14:20

Lite-On IT has announced that it will be launching a 20x burn-everything model (LH-20A1P) in Europe at the end of December, priced around £30.

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Thecus launches media center edition of N2100BM

20 November 2006, 16:23

Storage solution firm Thecus has developed a new version of their N2100 NAS appliance which adds new features and support for digital media standards.

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Review: SOHOUSB Magic Bridge SATA/eSATA IDE/USB bridge

15 November 2006, 10:34

What's the opposite of an enclosure? Seems there isn't a direct antonym for the word, following an exhaustive search of the net (well, after two queries I was exhausted). We'd ...

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LINDY Mac-mini-style USB/FireWire external HDD bay

9 November 2006, 13:06

LINDY sells a Mac-mini form-factor external HDD enclosure that connects by USB 2 or FireWire, uses no fans and is said to work equally well with Windows or Mac PCs

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Lite-On to stop selling own-brand DVD set-top recorders

26 October 2006, 12:51

Lite-On is to stop selling set-top DVD recorders under its own brand worldwide, though sales of own-brand PC optical drives will continue unchanged

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Sony Blu-ray movie playback patch - still not available

2 October 2006, 12:47

Sony's BWU-100A Blu-ray Disc burner can at last play BD movies thanks to a free downloadable upgrade. In theory. Trouble is, attempting a download only results in a 'come-back-later' message

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More IDE flash

29 September 2006, 11:42

Having a nosy around Super Talent's stand at IDF, we ran into a 4GiB flash drive with integrated IDE controller.

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Intel introduces new XScale based storage processors

28 September 2006, 12:55

Despite the deal to sell its XScale business on to Marvell, Intel has announced a new family of IOP storage processors based on the XScale.

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LaCie uprates d2 external SATA drives to SATA II

27 September 2006, 12:09

LaCie is replacing its d2 family of external SATA hard drives with SATA II models aimed at anyone wanting a fast but cheap alternative to fibre channel or SCSI

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Review: LaCie Two Big 1TB DAS enclosure

26 September 2006, 10:51

We've had some fun with eSATA before, thanks to the Thecus N2050. Today we have a similar product from LaCie on test. We got 1TB worth of storage to ...

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Samsung offers world's first 18x external burner with LightScribe

23 September 2006, 12:19

Fast burning over USB 2.0

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Corsair's 8Gig Voyager leaves (USB) port

22 September 2006, 16:58

See what I did there? Corsair... Voyager... port...? Oh, forget it.

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Fact: Cat urine and laptops don't mix

19 September 2006, 13:19

Fire, water, exploding batteries, hardware failure, accidental damage... there are many reasons a hard drive can go south, taking your data with it. Companies like Disklabs specialise in retreiving that ...

TDK samples 32GB Flash disk

18 September 2006, 17:33

TDK has followed Samsung and launched a hard drive replacement based on NAND Flash memory. The product, which is currently available in sample quantities, was announced by the company last ...

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IFA 2006 :: Blu-ray external drive proves Toshiba wrong

6 September 2006, 18:22

After Toshiba told us that Blu-ray drives were susceptible to the lens making contact with the disc and the disc’s Zircon layer damaging the lens, we were keen to find ...

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IFA 2006 :: Toshiba claims HD DVD superior to Blu-ray

5 September 2006, 14:38

Over at IFA 2006, we sat down with Jim Armour, from Toshiba’s Storage Device Division, to talk to him about the HD DVD format and how it compares to Blu-ray.

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Pioneer denies promising dual-format hi-def DVD burner

4 September 2006, 17:30

Pioneer has strongly denied that its still-distant third-generation high-def Blu-ray Disc DVD burner, the BDR-103, will be a combi model that's also able to write to HD DVD

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AMEX M505-BDR - Core 2 Duo Blu-ray-burner MCE PC due Aug 28

22 August 2006, 12:47

AMEX says that August 28 is the in-store date for the product it will be pushing at September's IFA show in Berlin, the M505-BDR - a Core 2 Duo media-centre ...

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eXcito BUBBA - reasonably-priced, stupidly-named home mini server

21 August 2006, 14:18

There are a whole lot of good reasons for having a server sitting at the centre of a home notework so BUBBA, a complete Linux-based home mini-server from Excito, might ...

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Review: Boston SAS RAID -X- Pack (LSI MegaRAID 8408E, Seagate ST3750640AS & Supermicro SATA M35)

17 August 2006, 08:50

Remember the Thecus N5200? We had it kitted out with 3.5TB worth of disks. The prospect of such a huge amount of storage was just too tempting for us, so ...

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Lite-On SHM-165H6S burn-everything LightScribe E-IDE writer

16 August 2006, 11:45

Lite-On is now selling across Europe a burn-everything internal E-IDE DVD-writer, the SHM-165H6S, that's able to create labels directly to disc using the LightScribe system

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Sony's first Blu-ray Disc burner won't play commercial BD movies!

14 August 2006, 17:27

Amazingly, it looks like Sony's first PC Blu-ray Disc burner, the BWU-100A, won't play commercial Blu-ray Disc movies, only high-def footage from HDV digital camcorders

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Review: Sima Hitch USB-101 transfer device

12 August 2006, 11:37

Most of us now have a USB device that we carry around with us, be it a thumb drive, camera, audio player, or missile launcher. With all of us carrying ...

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Review: GIGABYTE GC-RAMDISK i-RAM

27 July 2006, 07:53

The GIGABYTE GC-RAMDISK i-RAM uses fast RAM modules to emulate a hard disk drive, an interesting approach to speeding up storage. Does Gigabyte's i-RAM deliver the blistering performance it promises? ...

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DVDirect - Sony's latest 'Why-didn't-I-think-of- that?' killer product?

19 July 2006, 12:12

Sony's VRD-MC3 DVDirect recorder lets you burn video and photos to DVD from a whole lot of sources without a PC - camcorders, cameras, memory cards, VCRs and HDD recorders ...

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Review: Thecus N5200 NAS Appliance - 3.5 terabytes tested

13 July 2006, 16:54

The latest (and topmost) in Thecus' line of NAS products is the N5200. It frees itself from the shackles of the XScale processor and adopts the x86 architecture via an ...

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Netac adds 'world's smallest USB flash disk with built-in security'

12 July 2006, 14:07

Netac says that its OnlyDisk U220 is the world's smallest USB flash disk with built-in security

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HEXUS.pipelines :: NAS gets an upgrade

11 July 2006, 12:31

We love NAS here at HEXUS, but what we don't like is slow NAS. Perhaps the latest product to enter the HEXUS.pipeline will sort that out for us?

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Sony adds 4GB Memory Stick PRO Duo

10 July 2006, 10:35

Sony is launching a 4GB version of its Memory Stick PRO Duo and now bundling an adaptor free with all PRO Duo and Duo models

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Sony intros family of tiny 'thumbnail' drives

5 July 2006, 11:22

Sony Europe is set to introduce what's possibly the world's smallest 2GB thumbstick drive. The MICRO VAULT Tiny is 14.5x30mm, weighs 1.5g is the largest-capacity model in a four-strong range

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Buffalo introduces fast SMB NAS

3 July 2006, 16:58

The first real wave of NAS solutions aimed at the SOHO and even SMB markets proved a bit on the slow side, but that's all changing now.

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ACard claims worlds first stand alone DVD copy controllers

28 June 2006, 09:00

Storage solution provider ACard has laid claim to having a world first all purpose, standalone CD/DVD backup solution.

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