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StarTech.com, a leading manufacturer of hard-to-find connectivity parts has announced the release of the USB 3.0/eSATA to SATA Standalone 1:3 Hard Drive Duplicator Dock, which enables users to perform 1:3 sector-by-sector duplication from a single SATA hard drive onto three others simultaneously, without having to connect the dock to a host computer. The Duplicator Dock also includes a SATA to IDE adapter, which provides the option of connecting an IDE hard drive in one of the SATA slots.
“IT professionals are always looking for ways to make their jobs more efficient and this new multi-drive duplicator allows them to accomplish just that,” commented StarTech.com Senior Product Manager, Carey Cline. “The ability to perform a sector by sector duplication on up to three drives simultaneously, frees up the user’s time to perform other functions while the back-ups are created in the background. The fact it acts as a standalone unit also means it doesn’t use up resources on their computer system.”
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Team Group Inc. announced that they are going to display the all new C117 delicate flash drive at the Middle-East’s largest consumer exhibition – GITEX. C117 is created targeted at the stylish metrosexual men, made with one-piece stainless steel materials; in order to stress the unique metropolitan style, its surface is specially processed with high-tech 3D titanium coating, allowing it to have features such as wear-resistance, scratch-resistance and anti-fingerprint etc., and uses a restrained and calm black color appearance to display attractive personal style.
As 3C products gradually made into boutiques, in addition to being committed to the development of high performance products, Team Group’s R&D team also pondered more diverse surface processing and material applications for different regions. The all new C117 is a portable storage product that is created for metrosexual men; it uses a USB 2.0 interface with storage capacity selections ranging from 2~16 GB. The only 6 gram lightweight feature makes it extremely to carry with; the excellent black titanium color shows the unique confidence and outstanding style of modern metropolitans.
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Plextor, a leading developer of high-performance digital storage equipment, announces the new M2P Series Solid State Drive with fast random read- and write speeds of 70,000 / 65,000 IOPS and sequential read- and write speeds up to 500 Mb/s and 440 Mb/s. The M2P Series SSD is designed with True Speed technology to deliver the highest level of sustained performance.
Exclusive firmware bolsters stability and performance bringing advanced features including Instant Restore, Global Wear Leveling, and Bad Block Management. These features work together to prevent the performance of your SSD dropping after an extensive use and periods of continuous operation. This is what True Speed is about. SSD manufacturers tend to communicate speeds that reflect compressed data in a simulated benchmark test. In a real world situation the performance levels are much lower, as many forms of data (JPEG images, MP3s, etc.) are already highly compressed. With True Speed Plextor M2P performance will remain close to the promised performance.
In addition to True Speed technology, the M2P Series SSD is powered by the server-grade Marvell 88SS9174 controller chip supporting the latest generation SATA III 6Gb/s interface and the highest-quality Japanese NAND flash from industry leader Toshiba.
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Western Digital, the world's leader in external storage solutions and maker of the popular WD TV media player family, today introduced the next generation of its WD TV Live streaming media player, an easy to use Wi-Fi enabled media player that is the first in its category to deliver the Spotify music service.
WD TV Live features WD's newest intuitive user interface that delivers the latest hit movies, TV shows, music and online services from companies like Netflix®, Hulu Plus™ and Blockbuster® directly to your TV. The new streaming media player connects to the Internet wirelessly or through an Ethernet connection, with the high performance 802.11n wireless connectivity supporting Full-HD 1080p video resolution.
In addition to premium Internet content, WD TV Live allows users to enjoy personal media such as photos, video and music on their home entertainment systems by supporting a wide range of file formats for streaming content from any connected USB drive, digital camcorder or camera, network drive such as the My Book® Live™ personal cloud storage, and any networked PC or Mac® computer in the home.
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NTI announced today a new cloud version of their award-winning Backup Now EZ software. New benefits include online backup options plus step-by-step and customizable backup capabilities. Backup options include the ability to backup a complete PC and/or just selected files and folders. Plus, with the added cloud storage users have peace of mind with access to their data anytime, anywhere they are internet connected.
Toshiba's new high capacity Canvio 3.0 USB hard drives are the first-to-market with NTI® Backup Now EZ™ software pre-installed for simple activation by consumers. Backup Now EZ scans your computer and recommends the best backup options. You then decide between backing up your files to the Toshiba Canvio, to online storage at NTI Cloud, or choose both for the most comprehensive coverage. The software also includes Drive Space Alert that monitors local drives and announces when the drive is getting close to full.
NTI Cloud starts online storage with a free 30-day trial and $1/GB per month in 5GB or 10GB increments thereafter. Users are offered the option to dynamically grow the online portion as needed.
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Team Group’s TL01 leather drive is a stylish, high-speed and for a new generation flash drive, which made its debut at the GITEX exhibition; it imitated the Arabian Gulf design, and used the newest double-stitched leather construction method, along with delicately made white steel side decorations and rings, cleverly combined metropolitan fashion and whimsy style.
Team Group’s TL01 leather drive uses a rotational storage design, eliminating the risk of damage from connector collision, in addition to having a delicate and exquisite style, it also combined features such as yuppie aesthetic and leather’s wear-resistance and durability; by using the standard USB 2.0 interface, it can be widely applied to personal computers and peripheral devices. The TL01 leather drive also comes in several storage capacities ranging from 2~32GB available for consumers to purchase in order to satisfy the application needs of different users.
As a leading provider of memory storage products to the consumer market, Team Group is committed to providing the best storage, multimedia and data sharing solutions. All Team memory module products come with a lifetime warranty, repair and replacement services. For more information, please visit the Team website at www.teamgroup.com.tw.
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PQI, one of the top 10 Flash memory makers in the world, has just released the U827 Santa Claus limited edition travel disk for the holiday season. The cute and humorous design combined with the classic packaging is guaranteed to turn heads and make it hard to put down. The U827 travel disk not only features COB packaging technology for water, dust, vibration and shock resistance but also delivers an unconventional twist on the traditional Santa Claus to create a different Christmas USB disk. Through careful observation and ingenuity, the cap is both a cute sled and a bathtub, making the PQI Santa Claus U827 a fun and user-friendly lifestyle accessory.
A snow-covered landscape is a familiar fairy tale setting and it is the mission of Santa Claus to satisfy the many hopes hanging up over the fireplace. While we delight in the gifts under the Christmas Tree and by the bedside, shouldn't we also prepare a nice, hot bath for Santa Claus out there in the freezing cold? PQI U827 heard Santa Claus' complaint and this became the inspiration for a design that allows Santa Claus to enjoy a nice, hot bubble bath as he travels across the world. Like riding a time machine to those innocent childhood years, each bubble represents a sincere holiday greeting and a wish for happiness. Through these bubbles of happiness, PQI U827 hopes to convey its blessings to the world!
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Corsair, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced worldwide retail availability of the 480 GB Force Series GT SSD and 180GB and 480GB Force Series 3 SSDs.
As solid-state drives reach wider adoption rates, Corsair's new SSD models address growing market demand for fast, high-capacity drives. The 180GB Force Series 3 targets consumers and IT professionals who want an affordable step up from 120GB, and the 480GB models are ideal for high-performance notebook PC users who require massive SSD storage capacity in a single drive. The top of the line 480GB Force Series GT SSD is designed for video editing, competitive gaming, and other applications for which extraordinary performance is required.
"As one of the leaders in high-performance solid state drives, we're pleased to offer a full range of SSD models to address customers' needs for high performance, high-capacity storage.", said Thi La, Vice President of Memory Products at Corsair.
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Nero 11, the new multimedia software suite from Nero, is now available for consumers who want to make the most of their photos, videos and music.
Nero 11 was reconstructed to offer improved device support, greater functionality and substantial usability improvements. Its main applications now have consistent user interfaces and a new Nero MediaBrowser provides one-click access to the user’s photo, video and music library from every application. Easy-to-follow start screens offer at-a-glance overviews and video tutorials for each application.
The integrated applications in Nero 11 can be used to:
- Organise and wirelessly sync iTunes playlists, videos and photos between PCs and Android devices
- Create impressive-looking videos and photo slide shows for sharing on Facebook, YouTube and Flickr
- Provide full system back up security with just one click
- Optimise and convert videos for iPad, Android smart phones and other devices
- Burn high-quality Blu-ray and DVD discs
- Design and order professionally printed photo books, calendars and greeting cards
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Memoright, a leading provider of solid state drive (SSD) products, unveils its latest SSD solutions HTM series which delivers constant sequential performance and constant random access performance and allows MLC- based SSDs to deliver longer life span for enterprise storage.
As Memoright’s Chairman and CEO Eric Kao stated in the keynote speech of Flash Memory Summit, “one size does not fit all in SSD world.” SSDs are not simply as a faster version of HDDs. If SSD’s performance characteristic does not match data access patterns, SSDs will not perform as expected and sometimes can be slower than HDDs.
In some application of enterprise storage, SSD’s are required to deliver consistent performance, especially when they are working in an array or certain RAID configurations. Latency is the time with which a drive takes to respond back to host after receiving an IO command. An array of SSD’s performs the best when every SSD responds with same or similar latency. This is also the reason why enterprise HDD’s are often short-stroked to limit the movement of read/write headset thus to obtain a narrower range of latency time, while sacrificing a high percentage of capacity. In SSD world, some manufactures use high over-provisioning to ease garbage collection process in hope of limiting the latency time. It not only wastes a lot of expensive NAND capacity, but also got no guarantee. Memoright shows that it is possible to limit the latency spread without a high percentage of over-provisioning.
