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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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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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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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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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SATA to... SCSI? External enclosure conundrum

21 June 2006, 18:04

External RAID enclosures for SATA drives aren't new, but ones with a SCSI interface to the host? Now that's different, but just how useful?

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IDE to USB converters suddenly 10x more useful

20 June 2006, 17:03

Converters for IDE to USB aren't new, but in light of the latest and upcoming motherboards, they're turning into extremly useful techie tools.

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Blu-ray and HD DVD blank-disc price shocker!

19 June 2006, 11:37

Although we don't know for sure when Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD burners are coming to the UK or their prices, we do now know roughly how much blank high-def ...

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Disney and A-DATA cash in on media cards

10 June 2006, 09:05

Cinderella SD cards. Whatever next.

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Toshiba 200GB 2.5in HDD goes into production August

9 June 2006, 09:59

Toshiba is debuting its new "best of class" 200GB 2.5in drive, the MK2035GSS, at this week's Computex Taipei show and plans to go into production with the SATA II HDD ...

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BenQ showcase internal & external Blu-ray burners

7 June 2006, 14:15

BenQ are showcasing external and internal Blu-ray combi burners

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A-DATA's new gadgets. Fancy a solar-powered USB stick?

6 June 2006, 17:58

A-DATA's new gadgets.

Come and finger OCZ’s Biometric USB Stick

6 June 2006, 16:07

OCZ show off their biometric USB stick

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Seagate's big-boy 750GB HDD

31 May 2006, 11:06

Fancy a seriously BIG hard disk that can hold all your movies, stills and MP3s and still have room to back up your C: drive a few times over? Well, ...

CTS - 2006 :: Disklabs - the people to call in a data emergency

11 May 2006, 19:18

Why you need to backup your data.

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TDK promises printable Blu-ray Disc blanks - but not until Q3, 2006

26 April 2006, 16:56

At this week's NAB 2006 show, TDK is promising to introduce inkjet printable single-layer and dual-layer write-once Blu-ray Disc blanks - though not until the third quarter of 2006

Boston gets SASsy with Supermicro

4 April 2006, 17:59

One of the latest storage technologies to hit the computing world is Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and it's continually increasing in popularity.

Egcellent Ideas' ring-pull egg

1 April 2006, 23:51

Okay, the ring-pull egg from Egcellent Ideas isn't strictly digital home but it is a product that's used at home with the digits and is so intriguing that we simply ...

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