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Amex DIGITAL recently made an announcement regarding the release of its Super Multi Drive external in Asia. You will find this new external engraver CD/DVD, Super Multi Drive quite elegantly designed to suit your tastes. Throwing a look upon the following points will make you know more about the Super Multi Drive external better:

• A dimension of 180×170x28mm
• A port USB
• Supports CD-R/RW and DVD±R/RW/DL
• Windows compatibility

Based on your choice you can choose from two of its colors, black or white. So, go and get the Amex DIGITAL Super Multi Drive external at a very reasonable price of 89$ only.

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Amex DIGITAL External Super Multi Drive

Pioneer Corporation has finally succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a huge capacity of 40 gigabytes for the first time in the world. This development is truly an achievement for Pioneer and has boosted its confidence in the feasibility of a large-capacity optical disc that will be needed in the future.

The new 16-layer optical disc technology is capable of storing much more data than was possible earlier in the conventional discs. It will help reducing the number of discs used and therefore help in contributing to the conservation of resources. Pioneer 16-Later Optical Disc features a wide-angle spherical aberration compensator and light-receiving element that can read out weak signals at a high signal-to-noise ratio.

Pioneer has in fact solved the problems of obtaining clear signals from each recording layer in a stable manner by utilizing the optical disc production technology in its 16-layer optical disc. You will also be glad to know that it is possible to maintain compatibility between the new 16-layer optical disc and the BD discs. Pioneer is soon going to present the details of this mind-blowing research at the International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage 2008 that will be held in Hawaii from July 13.

Via: Press

Diamond Bar, a manufacturer and marketer of the popular Ridata brand of recordable DVD media and digital media accessories, is proud to add its new Ridata Single Layer Cell 2.5” IDE Ultra-S in its award-winning Ridata Solid State Drive (SSD) product line-up.

“The reliability and performance benefits of the Single Layer Cell (SLC) SSD structure is vastly superior to a hard disk drive or MLC SSD for the environmentally rugged conditions of the industrial marketplace,’ remarked Harvey Liu, Advanced Media President. It’s ideal for ruggedized laptop or Linux users to replace hard drives with storage IDE interface.

Offering a faster speed and reliability, Ridata SLC is capable of storing one bit of data in each cell versus MLC that can store up to 2 bits per cell. It features SLC flash technology and offers static wear leveling and bad block management for data integrity. The Ridata SLC 2.5” IDE Ultra-S SLC will be available in the third quarter of 2008.

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After successful launch of Sentry 160 GB fire-safe-waterproof Hard Drive, Sentry has announced its latest and next generation 250GB Fire-safe/Waterproof Hard Drive, which protects your important data from fire and water calamities and even computer damage. The device supports Maxtor (R) Storage Solutions to improve the pioneering hard drive to get-back the critical data.

“SentrySafe is always looking to introduce new products to meet the needs of consumers. With the new 250GB fire-resistant and waterproof hard drive, SentrySafe is putting the ‘hard’ in hard drive,” said Sondra McFarlane, director of customer development for SentrySafe.

The fire-safe and waterproof hard drive model QA0005 comes integrated with the awarded Maxtor One Touch (R) 4 MINI™ hard drive that is the first mobile storage clarification including software protection tools, such as data encryption and Maxtor’s Safety Drill software. It bears an uncovered metal refurbish. Thus, now the customers can remain tension free about the protection of their data with the help of SentrySafe Fire-Safe/Waterproof Hard Drive.

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Sentry 250GB Fire-Safe/ Waterproof Hard Drive

Sony came up with Micro Vault Click range of USB Drives boasting 16GB capacity. Offering not only increased storage capacity but also advanced performance, the Windows compatible USB disk drives deliver high data transfer rate. The plug and play device lets you share your data and keep important files ready when on the go.

Just uncover the USB 2.04 connector and you are ready to use it. Specifically designed for business professionals, the MicroVault Click Excellence offers 31MB/s read and 11MB/s write speeds. Its storage capacity ranges from 2GB to 8GB. . Stylish ivory design features an LED display which lightens up during data transfer.

Though the actual storage capacity is little less than what is specified, but you can store three times more data, thanks to Virtual Expander compression software, which is preinstalled by Sony. Available from May this year, the hard drive comes with a 5 year European warranty.

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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.

Via: Press

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.

Via: Press

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

Via: Pantone

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.

Via: Aving

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.

Via: Aving

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.

Via: Prnewswire Press

Sun Microsystems, Inc. unveiled its Sun(TM) Constellation System to meet the extreme computation, storage and scale requirements of HPC customers on November 12, 2007.

This recently launched system is world’s first open environment for petascale computing. It can effectively combines ultra-dense, storage and networking on to an effective and integrated general purpose system. The system is designed by Sun Microsystems to ensure massive data stores’ integrity and preservation with exhaustive and extensive metadata facilities in the long run.

It facilitates high performance storage, ultra dense compute nodes along with ultra dense infiniband switching. The latest constellation system is likely to assist the customers in solving high-end computational troubles. It can scale from small-to-medium departmental clusters to quite large supercomputer configurations.

This scalable HPC computing architecture is based on open and industry standard components. It comprises of Sun Blade(TM) 6048 Modular System, Sun Datacenter Switch 3456, new Sun Datacenter Express Services and high capacity data archive and high density storage benefit.

Via: Prweb Press

Intel Corporation recently introduced a new storage platform, the Intel Entry Storage System SS4200x specifically designed to make the management of growing digital information effortless, by protecting vital data in miniature businesses and safeguarding digital content in the home. This is a supple, user-friendly Intel Entry Storage System which is being circulated through Intel’s channel partners in two models: the Intel® Entry Storage System SS4200-EHW, a hardware-only version, and the Intel® Entry Storage System SS4200-E, which comes whole with incorporated software.

This storage system is purely based on the Intel® Celeron® 400 Series Processor with DDR2 memory. The Intel Entry Storage System SS4200x offers the users performance and functionality to hold up demanding workloads and thus it also sports a powerful Intel® 945GZ with ICH7-R chipset for superior I/O performance. The Intel Entry Storage System goes well with Windows and Mac clients and not only this it incorporates support for 11 languages. The Intel Entry Storage System SS4200-EHW and SS4200-E would be accessible by users in the month of December, starting at $500 and up.

Via: Intel

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the global forerunner in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital convergence technologies and advanced memory technology, recently introduced its latest 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64Gigabyte (GB) solid state drives (SSD) with a super-fast SATA (Serial ATA) II/native SATA interface. These SSDs comes with a sequential write speed of 100 (MBps) and sequential read speed of 120MBps.

The new SATA II SSD has a 3.0 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) interface speed which is two times as quick as its SATA I predecessor and also the SATA II SSD need merely 50% as much power as the 1.9 watts consumed by hard drives currently used in notebook PCs. Samsung would always remain a global leader in the creation of higher-density solid state drives, inventing a 32GB PATA SSD in last year March after which it created a 64GB version using the SATA I interface in this year March again.

The market research firm Web-Feet Research calculates approximately that the NAND flash-based SSD market is anticipated to show 74 percent compounded annual expansion from 2007 through 2012. Samsung has not revealed any information on the price range and date of availability of these 64GByte SATA II SSDs till now, so stay tuned till our next updation.

Via: Newswire Press

IBM extends its disk and tape storage solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs) with the introduction of IBM System Storage DS3000 and DS4000 disk series, as well as IBM System Storage TS2240 Tape products.

The latest products decrease cost. The IBM System Storage DS3000 disk product series includes low-cost Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) support as well as support for IBM System p servers and IBM BladeCenter Power blades.

The enhanced IBM System Storage DS3000 and DS4000 Series are scheduled to be available from December 7, 2007 and February 8, 2008, respectively. While the DS3000 will bear a price-tag of $4,500, the DS4000 will start at $11,500.

IBM also announced the IBM System Storage TS2240 Tape Drive Express Model LTO 4 Half-High. It offers 800 GB of capacity (up to 1.6 TB at 2:1 compression); high performance 120 MB/sec performance native data transfer rate; continued media support of prior LTO generations; application-managed encryption; and 3 Gbps Serial Attached Storage (SAS) attachment availability. The IBM System Storage TS2240 will ship from November 16, 2007 at an MSRP of $4,500.

Via: Businesswire Press

BiTMICRO unveils its latest E-Disk Altima E2A3 416GB 2.5-inch SATA Flash Disk Drive in the SSD Industry. The New SATA Disk boasts of 3Gb/sec Burst Rate. This intelligent flash SSD can sustain transfer rates of up to 100MB/sec, making it ideal for mobile computing, embedded and networked storage solutions. The company has announced it will commence the shipping of its E-Disk Altima E2A3 from Q2 2008. The disk is supported by the EDSA DMC and LUNETA MFI ASIC. The E2A3 has the capacity to withstand shock and vibration up to 1,500 G and 16.5 Gs.

Via: Businesswire

Hitachi’s storage unit Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) recently debuted world’s most energy efficient desktop hard disk the Deskstar P7K500 with 7200 RPM Performance and 250G-Per-Platter Capacity Ideal for Power-Friendly PCs. The latest HDD employs power-saving technologies reducing active and idle power consumption by up to 40 percent.

The Deskstar P7K500 boasts of Serial-ATA interface. The Deskstar P7K500 is scheduled to be available in high volume later in 4Q 2007. Hitachi GST’s HDD is engineered for commercial and consumer PCs. It will be available in capacities ranging from 250GB to 500GB. The latest HDD is up to 59 percent more power efficient than 250GB hard drives in its class with similar specs.

Features of Deskstar P7K500

• 185 billion bits per square inch maximum areal density
• 2/1 platters, 4/2 recording heads
• 1138 Mb/s max. media data rate
• 7200 RPM, 4.17 ms average latency
• PATA-133 and 3Gb/s SATA
• 8 MB (single disk)/8MB and 16MB (two disk) data buffer
• 26.1 mm in height (max)
• 550 in weight (max)
• 350 G/2 ms non-operating shock
• 3.6/4.8 watt idle power

Comprised of the superb quality for movie playback on the PC, CyberLink PowerDVD’s has the capacity to support for BD-RE 3.0 allowing users to play the BDMV content they have authored on rewritable Blu-ray Discs, and navigate the advanced interactive menus of the Blu-ray Disc format. PowerDVD has already been certified for BD-ROM Profile 1.0, BD+, AVCHD, and HD DVD.

PowerDVD offers the following key comes with the market catching features of:

• Optimized performance for playing high-definition video content using graphics cards featuring NVIDIA PureVideo, ATI Avivo, and Intel Clear Video technology
• Support for next-generation disc features, like Picture-in-Picture movie mode, networking, interactive BD-J and iHD, bookmarks, and advanced disc navigation
• New audio technologies with support for Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD technologies
• Playback of high-definition HD DVD, and Blu-ray Disc movies

World’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives has been established by the Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Tokyo Hitachi Limited. It is invented with the notion that it will quadruple the present storage capacity up to four terabytes on a note book hard drive and on desktop. Thus the canvassers have attained success of dropping the accessible recording heads to acquire latest heads in the ranges of 30-50 nanometers which are even smaller in comparison to the thickness of human hair. According to Research Director, Storage Technology Research Center, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd, Hiroaki Odawara this is the most low cost high storage capacity hard drive which gives customers unlimited capacity for accumulating digital data content. It also possesses some characteristics features that make it identical like:

• It allows 500 gigabits per square inch to one terabit per square inch for hard disk drive recording densities.
• It also provides the strongest signal in comparison with noise ratio which is like the signal out put is high and the noise is less.
• It displays less electrical resistance
• The innovations of the recording head technology has become very fast with the Hard Drive disk.
• It also acts as the Tunnel magneto-resistance head.

Matsushita Electric Panasonic announced its latest DMR-XW100 DIGA Blu-ray and DVD Recorder. Scheduled to reach the markets from November 1, the DMR-XW100 offers longest HDD recording. Equipped with 250 GB HDD, the DIGA Blu-Ray Recorders easily connect with other AV products. They are easy in operation. You can connect these recorders with video intercom and record up to 400 video images of visitors while you are away from home. By connecting these latest recorders to broadband Internet, users can record their favorite TV shows remotely over a mobile phone or through a PC.

Via: Panasonic

Panasonic displayed its DMR-BW800 HD DVD Recorder at the CEATEC JAPAN 2007. The recorder will be available from November 1^st this year. Panasonic DMR-BW800 offers the longest hours of FULL HD recording in the world. It is easy in operation and boasts of connectivity with other AV products and video intercom connected to the home network. Users can store up to 500 GB HDD data on the recorder. These DIGA recorders have the capability to record 5.1 channel surround sound broadcasts without deterioration in sound quality or surround effects. The DMR-BW800 offers a 1080p HD playback capability with a frame rate of 24 frames per second to allow watching movies in their native frame rate.

Via: Panasonic