Addonics Enclosure Supports RAID in Portable Package

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Addonics has announced a new portable storage enclosure that supports dual SATA HDDs in RAID configuration. The enclosure supports 2.5-inch SATA HDDs 9 to 9.5mm in height. The device also supports up to four compact flash cards when used with the SATA-CF adapter from Addonics.

The drive enclosure comes with DriveClone software that can clone and backup the contents of your PC drive. The enclosure supports one button back up and connects to the PC via USB and eSATA. RAID levels supported include 0, 1, JBOD, BIG, SAFE50, SAFE33, and GUI mode. Read more

Posted on Fri, 8 Aug 2008 08:51:17 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung Offers 7-year Warranty on RAID Hard Drives

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Samsung has announced a new warranty for its RAID class enterprise hard drives in the Spinpoint F1 RAID 3.5-inch SATA drives. The warranty covers the drives for a full 7 years. Samsung says that most RAID class hard drive warranties are only good for 3-5 years.

Capacities for the RAID drives from Samsung with the new warranty range from 250GB to 1TB and are designed for storage and surveillance applications. The mean time between failures for the Spinpoint F1 RAID drives is up to 1.2 million hours and the pricing for the drives starts at $299. Read more

Posted on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:23:12 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Tomb Raider: Underworld gets Ship Date

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Eidos has announced the ship date for the next Tomb Raider installment called Tomb Raider: Underworld at E3. The game will ship simultaneously for the Xbox, PS3, Wii, PS2, Nintendo DS, and PC. Eidos promises this game will take players on greater challenges than previous Tomb Raider games.

The game centers on Lara Croft finding proof of the hammer of the Norse God Thor that supposedly has the power to crush mountains. The versions for the Wii and DS will have exclusive features not found on the other systems. The Wii version will feature a compressed air gun that allows searching in hidden areas. Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:50:24 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

VelociRaptors In RAID 5, a Case Study in Speed

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Hothardware tested the three new WD VelociRaptor drives in a RAID 5 configuration with an Areca PCIe X8 hardware RAID card.

Quote from the test: " you're the type who thinks of 2.5" drive technology only in terms of notebook products, then recently, Western Digital probably helped expand your horizons a bit. With the release of their VelociRaptor 300GB SATA hard drive, mainstream users were exposed to the advantages of the high transfer rates associated with 2.5" platters rotating at 10K RPM, with four access heads pulling data. Though packed in a 3.5" form-factor for desktop system compatibility, the 2.5", dual 150GB platter platform that the VelociRaptor was built on allows it to outperform virtually all standard 3.5" SATA drives on the market today, even WD's 10K RPM Raptor WD1500 series. Read more

Posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

CF Card RAID in the size of a 2.5-inch SATA HDD from Sans Digital

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Sans Digital introduces interesting Compact Flash (CF) enclosures.

The Sans Digital CompactSTOR CS1T and CompactRAID CR2T convert Compact Flash cards to a single 2.5" SATA hard drive storage device.
The CS1T houses one Compact Flash card, while the CR2T supports spanning and RAID 1 (mirroring) by housing up to two Compact Flash cards. The CR2T allows you to easily upgrade your laptop to RAID and flash storage. Read more

Posted on Sat, 24 May 2008 01:36:01 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

A Look at RAID Configuration and Gaming Performance

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TechwareLabs looks at RAID hard-drive configuration and Gaming performance.

Quote: "Today we take another look at Raid as it applies to gaming. Does using a Raid array benefit FPS, game loading, and level loading? We attempt to answer these questions and put them into the perspective of price versus performance under a single drive, two drive, and four drive scenarios. Read more

Posted on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Virgin Mobile Announces New Pre-praid Plans

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Virgin Mobile announced new pre-paid plans today that it says are aimed at helping Americans save money during the current economic crunch. “There is no reason for consumers to lock themselves into the restrictive terms of a postpaid contract plan to get real value," said Dan Schulman, chief executive officer, Virgin Mobile USA, "especially at a time when many people need greater control over their spending and use of credit. We're closing the gap between those features traditionally offered by postpaid carriers and the value available from our plans without annual contracts."

Virgin has added features to its pre-paid plans with offerings that offer 500 night and weekend minutes starting at $24.99 and unlimited night and weekend minutes starting at $49.99. Virgin says that it is the only national provider offering night and weekend minutes starting at 7pm. Read more

Posted on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:02:56 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

EU conducts Antitrust Raid on Intel, Retailers

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By David Lawsky

SAN FRANCICSO (Reuters) - The European Commission conducted antitrust raids against Intel Corp's Munich offices on Tuesday and against retailers selling products of the world's largest chip maker, the Commission and the chip maker said. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:17:24 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

FBI raids Magician David Copperfield in Vegas

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - FBI agents have raided a Las Vegas warehouse owned by magician David Copperfield -- for reasons they did not disclose -- and media reports said that they seized nearly $2 million and computer equipment. Read more

Posted on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:18:44 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

GoFlex 371 HD Laptop with RAID 5 Announced

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1 Beyond announced a new laptop today optimized for HD video and graphics production called the GoFlex317 HD. This laptop is billed as the first laptop available that is capable of RAID 5 protection with 600GB of storage. A full featured system is available now for $6995.

The system is available with an Intel Core 2 Duo or Extreme Edition processor up to 2.93GHz and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX video cards with up to 512MB of RAM. The system is certified with Adobe Creative Suite 3, Avid Express Pro with Mojo, and Grass Valley / Canopus Edius. Read more

Posted on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:49:05 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Germany arrests 10 in global Internet Scam Raids

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BERLIN (Reuters) - German police have arrested 10 people suspected of being involved in an international Internet scam which could have cost victims hundreds of thousands of euros, the Federal Police Office said on Thursday. Read more

Posted on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Dutch Police Raid illegal DVD Plant

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LONDON (Reuters) - Dutch police have raided an illegal DVD manufacturing plant capable of making 900 copies of movies an hour, anti-piracy officials said on Thursday. Read more

Posted on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Mod Chip Sellers get raided

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US Customs has raided more than 30 homes, businesses and shops in 16 U.S. States to clamp down on the sale of mod chips for video game consoles.

The focus is on mod chips that enable consoles to play pirated games. PlayStation 2, Nintendo Wii, Xbox and Xbox 360 game consoles are most common platforms for mod chips. Read more

Posted on Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Alienware Offers SSD RAID and SSD & HDD Options

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I have had the chance to check out some of the fantastic machines from Alienware in the past and they typically use the best hardware available. While they are normally far from inexpensive, the Alienware computers certainly perform well.

Today Alienware announced that they are now offering SSD drives as storage options in their Area-51 m9750, Aurora m9700 and Area-51 m5550 notebooks. Not only can you get a single 32GB SSD if you want, but you can opt for a 32GB SSD RAID setup. Read more

Posted on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Targa Computers Annonces Raptor-60 RAID 5 & Blu-ray Capable Notebook

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Targa Computers announced today, their latest notebook called the Raptor-60. The Raptor-60 can be options with Blu-ray and up to three SATA HDD using RAID 0, 1, or 5 for up to 750 GB of storage space.

Graphics options include dual NVIDIA GeForce 7950 graphics cards in SLI mode. Targa says that the Raptor-60 is the first laptop of its kind to support RAID 5 on a notebook with the ability to choose from JBOD, RAID, 0, 1, or 5. Pricing for the Raptor-60 17” notebook starts at $2645. Read more

Posted on Thu, 31 May 2007 15:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

A Bluetooth Headset Grandma Won't be Afraid Of

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No doubt the last time you saw one of these was at Grandma’s house, maybe even last week if your Grandma is like mine. This Bluetooth headset is one that grandma would approve of, its big, chunky and decidedly low tech looking.

Inside of the gigantic headset you get the Bluetooth goodness you expect for connecting to your cellular phone. Personally I always found the best use for the headsets like this one on the old rotary phones to be bashing my brother on his head (he deserved it). Read more

Posted on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:54:53 CST | by Shane McGlaun

New Toshiba Notebook with RAID and 3D Shock Sensor

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Toshiba announces four new notebooks in Japan that support RAID and feature a 3D motion sensor for shock detection.

The Toshiba Dynabook SS LX and the L10 feature a 14.1 type SXGA display and weigh 1.99kg. When a 2nd hard-drive is installed both notebooks can be configured for RAID. The new 3D motion sensor shock protection is supposedly the world's first. Apparently former shock sensors are only 2D.

The other two new Toshiba Notebooks (Dynabook SS MX and M10) feature a 12.1" screen.
More details in Toshiba Press-Release (Japanese). Toshiba Notebook Bestsellers.

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Posted on Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr