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Addonics Technologies today announced the CF/CFast Duplicator, a fast and economical solution for making copies of CF or CFast media. The new product comes in a range of models to allow users to duplicate four, five or 10 media. Prices start at $699 for the 1:5 and $1299 for the 1:10 CF or CFast Duplicator.
The CF/CFast Duplicator is easy to operate. Simply insert a source media into the source slot and then insert the target media with equal or larger capacity into a destination slot. Next, you push a copy button and that starts the copying process. There is no complicated software to run.
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Pegasys, Inc., the company that takes video to the next level, announces the release of the English version of TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5. This software is the highly anticipated successor to TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress. The new software provides original video mastering and outputs in the most popular formats available. Purchasers of TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress between January 5, 2011 and February 3, 2011 can upgrade to TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 for free. The retail price is $99.95 and is now available for purchase. Other upgrade, user discount, and bundle options are available.
"Video content demand for the wide assortment of mobile devices and screen sizes has greatly expanded the software feature set required to generate quality video formats. Video creation has to be versatile and viewed in high definition, for video sharing websites or mobile devices offering video playback, and more. These types of output displays have become the main and most often targeted use of video content. We decided to release a comprehensive new mastering system to answer the increasing demands of videographers,” commented Tak Ebine, Pegasys CEO.
TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 includes improved editing or filtering functions, popular MKV or WebM format support, and other new features, which are expanding the limits of the encoder, becoming a complete encoding solution. It also supports many input and output formats, detailed parameter settings, and offers a fast and precise cut-edit function, video format conversion, compression, material creation and more.
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Plextor are excited to reveal they will be launching their first solid state drive (SSD) in the UK next month – the world-class 2nd generation M2S Series.
Plextor has a deserved, solid reputation for high performance, high quality products, especially in the storage sector. This leap into the SSD sector in the UK and Europe is a new move for the ever-expanding manufacturer, and a demonstration of their continued position as pioneers in a market likely to grow rapidly in future years. SSDs are increasing in popularity as a complement alongside traditional HDDs and the technology may eventually replace the HDD entirely for the OS and working environment.
Available in 3 capacities (64GB, 128GB and 256GB), the perfectly engineered 2.5” internal M2S Series SSD is one of the first of its kind to support the new SATA III 6b/s interface and boasts exclusive technologies to increase speed, stability and lifespan – offering up to 10 years of performance which doesn’t degrade over time as other SSDs might. With read speeds of up to 480MB/s, write speeds of up to 330MB/s and performing significantly highly in benchmark tests, the M2S is currently the fastest SSD available on the market.
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Active Media Products, a leading manufacturer of SSDs, DOMs and USB drives, today announced the new FLIP pivot USB 2.0 flash drive, an ultra-slim pivot style drive. "The FLIP drive is designed in fire orange and white racing colors, giving it a unique look, and the drive is extremely small and ultra-slim, making it a highly portable storage device", stated Active Media Products VP of Sales, Jerry Thomson.
The pivot style lid protects the drive when not in use - and you'll never have to worry about losing the lid because it conveniently flips open, giving instant access to your data. Pack 4GB or 8GB of data securely onto the FLIP drive. It is designed to fit easily on a keychain or in a pocket or clipped to a backpack. Load up to 2000 MP3 songs or up to 2400 six megapixel photos onto your FLIP drive to take with you anywhere.
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ASRock P67 Extreme6 Motherboard @ Madshrimps
CM Storm Strike Force SF-19 Laptop Cooler @ Benchmark Reviews
Corsair Gaming Audio Series SP2500 2.1 Speaker System @ TweakTown
FyreTV BoXXX Adult Media Streamer @ Techgage
G.Skill Ripjaws-X Series PC3-17066 4GB Kit @ TweakTown
Galaxis Ares Mid-Tower Case @ OCIA.net
Gunnar Optiks Shredder Digital Eyewear @ Benchmark Reviews
In Win IronClad Case @ Tweaknews
Logitech G35 Surround Sound Headset @ ThinkComputers.org
LSI MegaRAID 9280-24i4e RAID Controller w/ 24 Crucial RealSSD C300s @ TweakTown
NZXT Bunker USB Locking Device @ TweakTown
Patriot Viper Xtreme Division 2 DDR3-1866 8GB Dual Channel Memory Kit @ ThinkComputers.org
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NTI Corporation today announced Echo, a smart cloning software that delivers the ability to easily clone a PC's old drive to a new drive. NTI is an award-winning software developer and has created Echo for bundling with solid-state drives (SSD), hard disk drives (HDD), and hybrid drives.
"We wanted to make upgrading your PC's hard drive as easy as possible," said Bill Yao, CEO of NTI Corporation. "As storage device upgrade market continues to grow and becomes a more common practice, NTI Echo fills the need for an easy-to-use cloning software."
Echo will clone an entire drive, including all of its partitions, with all of the user's data, applications, and Windows operating system to another drive. The new drive can be of different types and sizes as long as the data can fit within its capacity. Echo will shrink and grow partitions as needed to optimize the use of available space.
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Plextor have expanded their high-performance optical storage portfolio with the addition of the PX-LB950UE – their first external Blu-ray Writer. The PX-LB950UE boasts a combination of an incredibly fast 12x writing speed with USB 3.0 technology, advanced software applications and a stylish external chassis designed to offer reliability, accuracy and low noise.
Every facet of the PX-B950UE has been designed to provide home and business users with a high performance, easy to use and versatile solution for backing-up large quantities of data or enjoying their favourite Blu-ray movies.
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ADATA HM-1200 1200W Power Supply @ TweakTown
Alienware M17X10 Gaming Notebook @ InsideHW
Arctic Sound P531 and Razer Banshee USB Gaming Headsets @ Metku.net
Cooler Master Silent Power Gold 1000W Power Supply @ BCCHardware
Corsair HS1 Headset @ TweakPC
Muskin Callisto Deluxe Solid State Drive @ Benchmark Reviews
Palit GeForce GTX 560 Ti Sonic Video Card in SLI @ TweakTown
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 760W Power Supply @ OCIA.net
Samsung BD-C6900 3D Blu-ray Player @ Tweaknews
ViewSonic gTablet Tegra 2 Tablet @ HotHardware
Zalman S-Series 128GB Solid State Drive @ ThinkComputers.org
Zotac IONITX-P-E Mini-ITX Motherboard @ ThinkComputers.org
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SanDisk Corporation, the global leader in flash memory cards, today announced that Imation Corp. has signed a patent cross-license agreement with SanDisk to settle two cases filed by SanDisk in Federal District Court against Imation alleging infringement of flash memory system-level patents.
Under the terms of the cross-license, Imation will pay SanDisk royalties on various flash memory products, including USB flash drives and solid state disk (“SSD”) drives. In addition, Imation entered into a stipulated judgment of infringement and validity in SanDisk’s favor on claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,137,011, which covers the use of certain encryption technology in a memory card.
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Apacer Technology, a global innovator in memory module, takes advantage of its technical superiority again to step up the SSD read and write speed as well as its durability. The memory giant debuts today the Turbo II AS602 SSD series, which features top-of-the-line and high-speed SandForce SF-1222 controller that helps optimize sequential read/write performance to a blazing fast of 285/275MB and delivers more IOPS (30,000 input/ 13,000 output per second). Apacer also improves SSD’s capability to transfer data involving small files and increases overall transfer rate. Plus, the built-in Duraclass technology delivers best-in-class reliability tantamount to enterprise-level SLC drives and edges over previous generations.
"With its technical superiority in consumer and enterprise SSD as well as the use of SandForce SF-1222 controller, Apacer has managed to create the nearly impeccable AS602 SSD,” said Apacer. “Compared with its SSD counterparts, Apacer’s AS602 SSD has not only the fastest sequential transfer speed but fastest random read and write speed as well. It features incredible reliability and makes up all the SSD shortcomings so as to address the speed needs for users,” Apacer added.
