WD has announced the sale of its latest WD My DVR Expander External Hard Drive for DISH Network ViP Series HD DVRs. This HDD comes with a capacity of 500 GB letting the users store up to 300 hours of HDTV programming.

"WD’s My DVR Expander provides an ideal complement to the innovative archiving feature of DISH Network’s award-winning line of ViP HD DVRs," said Jessica Insalaco, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for DISH Network. "Combined with the already industry-leading storage capacity of our DVRs, DISH Network customers can create and control their own on-demand programming — reinforcing DISH Network’s leadership in digital entertainment."

These cool drives use up an eco friendly cooling system and boast GreenPower(TM) technology. They take up less power as compared to other HDDs. You can get these drives at $149.99 USD.

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Iomega brought forward the latest ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive that lets you say your PC bye. It brings your multimedia content to high definition TVs and home theater systems. It has a capacity of 500 GB and can store upto 2 million photos, 9,250 hours of music, or 750 hours of video.

Loren Bryner, ScreenPlay product manager, Iomega Corporation said “The ScreenPlay Drive is a great solution for Windows users — there’s no better way to leverage a big-screen LCD or plasma TV investment. The combination of ScreenPlay and today’s televisions give users a seamless way to show off family photos, play music, and enjoy their videos from the best seat in the house.”

The ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive is accompanied with a remote control. It facilitates navigation. The HDD equips HDMI and component video outputs to deliver high-resolution digital photos and video.

Weighing two pounds the HDD comes in the size of paper book. The Iomega ScreenPlay USB 2.0/AV in 500GB capacity is available for immediate sale in the America for $209.95. However, it will ship in the International Markets during May for Euro 179.99.

Anchor Audio, industry leader in portable sound systems, has come up with lightweight and rugged solution to traditional PA systems. The new cost effective Beacon portable sound system sets standards in the audio market delivering crystal clear sound. The easy to set up and transport, Beacon can be installed in less than 2 minutes.Delivering 300watts of speech in AC mode and 60watts of speech in DC mode, the system features two integrated Ultra high frequency wireless receivers and external CD player. Each receiver with 16UHF channels results in interference free voice. Go to any part of the world and carry your 110/220 power supply with 4-6 hours of life.

Get true to life like sound without any distortion from the local broadcasting house using the Beacon portable sound system. Price is still hidden, but you can surely save a lot of time and efforts with it.

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Cannon PC has proclaimed that they will be offering the solid state srives on their Media Center Systems. Enormous execution and reliability are the key characteristics of solid state disk drives which are grounded on SATA connectivity engineering and flash storage held in Cannon PC.Hard drives are 5 times slow paced than the SSDs employed in Cannon PC. Media Center therefore becomes profitable as it coolheaded and smoother.

‘Reliability, stability and performance are the key factors when we design our Media Centers.’ said Gregg Cannon, President of Cannon PC. ‘Since there are no moving parts, the MTF (mean time between failures) rate is 1,200,000 hours. This means less worry about system down time due to hard drive failure and means much faster performance.’

SSD Drives are scheduled to be available exclusively on the Cannon PC Pro A/V Series of Media Centers. These SSD drives will come installed with Windows Vista Operating system and will be available in 500 GB capacities.

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Seagate Technology recently launched its Cheetah 15K.6 full disk encryption hard drive. Specifically designed for storage arrays and mission critical servers, it is the world’s first self-encrypting hard drive. Take the hard drive anywhere in the world and encryption moves with it.

Mission critical enterprise data can now be secured as self encryption not only secures the data but also manages it and delivers improved performance. There is no need to change the operating system, databases or applications to encrypt it. Instantaneous Key-Erase technology ensures quick and secure removal.

Data center information security is benefited by self-encrypting drives. “Many organizations are considering drive-level security for its simplicity in helping secure sensitive data through the hardware lifecycle from initial setup, to upgrade transitions and disposal,” said Eric Ouellet, research vice president, Secure Business Enablement, Gartner. Though the price of the hard disk is not yet disclosed, it is surely going to set standards in security environment.

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Pantone Flash Drives are a nice gift for your employees, friends and relatives. These flash drives are available in a variety of color options. At least one will suit you. The company offers FREE Laser Engraving! FREE Logo Setup! Created in aluminium, Pantone flash drives let you to take your data with you wherever you go. Now store your pictures, songs, important data at a great ease and enjoy the power of mobility. These Mac and PC compatible drives come with a lifetime warranty and downloadable security software.

Flash Drive Price:

• 512MB is available at $10.99
• 1GB is available at $14.99
• 2GB is available at $19.99
• 4GB is available at $34.99

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Axxen recently released a beautiful gadget for women in the Korean Market. Axxen I-PASSION Pearl USB has a pearl colored pendant attached to USB cap. It is available in capacities ranging from 1GB to 8GB. This sexy I-PASSION Pearl USB features reading speed of 22Mb and writing speed of 12Mb. There is no word on the price yet. We will update the post soon. This gadget can be a nice gift.

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Axxen recently released a beautiful gadget for women in the Korean Market. Axxen I-PASSION Pearl USB has a pearl colored pendant attached to USB cap. It is available in capacities ranging from 1GB to 8GB. This sexy I-PASSION Pearl USB features reading speed of 22Mb and writing speed of 12Mb. There is no word on the price yet. We will update the post soon. This gadget can be a nice gift.

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STX recently released the Barracuda ES.2 SAS 1 TB HDD to offer benefits to the business class. No other SATA HDD in the market is full duplex and dual-port. Barracuda ES.2 offers 10 times greater reliability as compared to the desktop family drives. It therefore, is energy efficient. Barracuda ES.2 class consumes approx. 20% less power as it is incorporated with Seagate’s PowerTrim™ technology.

“With the added enterprise features found within SAS all merging into a lower-cost package, we anticipate our customers will be very interested in building and deploying SAS-based systems with Seagate® drives.”

In order to hold its performance in multi drive schemes, new RVFF™ (Rotational Vibration Feed Forward) arrangement is designed with its accessibility of uptime data. It is backed with a warranty of five-year.

Quick specs:

• Capacity: up to 1TB
• Functions at: 7, 200-rpm spin speeds
• Average seek: 8.5ms
• Capacity: 500GB and 750GB

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Sentry Group, one of the most renowned names in the field of small office as well as residential security storage containers, has announced its partnership with Maxtor(R) Storage Solutions on November 13, 2007 at New York City. The partnership is aimed at the development of world’s 1st affordable hard drives that is competent to protect critical data against fire, water, theft and computer crashes.

Maxtor’s latest SafetyDrill(TM) software is capable of an almost complete instantaneous restoration of PC’s operating system even during the time of an unforeseeable crisis.

It will not help to secure and back up the data but also would be beneficial in protection against common threats to PCs such as natural disasters and disk crashes. The hard drive is protected with an effective fireproof and waterproof enclosure that is ETL verified.

The Sentry(R) Safe FIRE-SAFE(R)/Waterproof Hard Drive is available in two size formats of 160GB and 80 GB at MSPR $319.99 and MSPR $259.99, respectively.

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