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• The AirLive WMU-6500FS BitTorrent NAS gets reviewed

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:33 pm

  Tags: Airlive, Bittorrent, Bittorrent Client, Bittorrentclient, Ftp, Hard Drive, Harddrive, Hdd, Http, Nas, Server, Wifi, Wmu 6500fs

  Filed under: Storage, NetworkingWe've seen NAS BitTorrent drives / servers before, but none quite as cheap or ugly as the AirLive WMU-6500FS. The Inquirer has gotten its hands on the funky gray PATA- or SATA-ready media stealer, and they give it a pretty decent once over. The drive comes with 32MB of RAM on board, 4MB of flash memory for the OS,

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• Peripherals: Iomega StorCenter 1TB w/RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, UPnP, and USB Expansion

  Published: July 31, 2007, 5:05 pm

  Tags: 1tb, Ethernet, Gigabit, Hdd, Iomega, Peripherals, Raid, Storage, Storcenter, Usb

  Iomega's StorCenter NAS devices are shipping in sizes from 500GB to 1TB with 7200 RPM SATA-II drives. The 1GB uses two drives, so can work in RAID 0, 1, or JBOD (one large drive). Each has Gigabit, but no WiFi, and has Active directory support and UPnP server ability. Interestingly, you can tether drives to this one via the two USB ports. $269 for

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• Blu-Lay-dee: Hitachi's Blu-Ray and HDD/Blu-Ray Cams Stateside in October (Right, Phil?)

  Published: August 2, 2007, 4:51 am

  Tags: Blu Lay Dee, Blu Ray, Camcorders, Cams, Digital Cameras, Dz Bd70, Dz Bd7h, Hdd Blu Ray, Video Cameras

  launched its Blue-Ray and HDD/Blue-Ray camcorders on the world. With a launch date of 31 August for Japan, and October for the rest of the world, here's a gallery and the gen on what you can expect. There are two models to choose from: the hybrid DZ-BD7H, with its 30GV HDD and 8 cm disk recorder; and the simpler DZ-BD70, a BD single drive

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• Future Xbox 360 Games Will Require HDD

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:22 pm

  Tags: Microsoft, Abound, Absolutely, Clue, Confusion, Gamers, Games Start, Hard Drive, Hdd, Initially, New Games, Sku, Uncompressed, Xbox 360

  disc and uncompressed in the HDD that every original XBOX had. This allowed for shorter (and less frequent) load times and also allow for much more data to be placed on the DVD. XF has learned that MS has plans for the 360 to do the very same thing. Games requiring the HDD will initially have a “HDD required” logo clearly viewable

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• Why Was GTA IV Delayed?

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:15 am

  Tags: Rockstar, Apparently, Been Delayed, Delay Announcement, Disappointed, Earlier This Week, Exact Reason, Force Microsoft, Going To Happen, Gta Iv, Hdd, Launch, Mmos, Rockstar, Seamless Experience, Specifics, Speculation, Times Limited

  titles requiring the 360 HDD for data caching, but hadn’t received any specifics on which games and when this would happen. Yesterday, when XF got word of GTA IV being delayed, we had to call our source. Apparently Rockstar wants GTA IV to give a seamless experience with load times limited as much as possible and void of loading

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• Buffalo adds Turbo USB to MiniStation / DriveStation external HDDs

  Published: August 8, 2007, 8:47 am

  Tags: Buffalo, Drivestation, External Hard Drive, External Hdd, Externalharddrive, Externalhdd, Ministation, Turbo Usb, Turbousb

  Filed under: Storage Lately, it's been Buffalo's NAS lineup getting all the attention, but today the firm is showing a little affection for its MiniStation and DriveStation. The MiniStation, which is available in capacities of 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, and a quarter-terabyte join the more capacious DriveStation (arriving with 320GB, 500GB, 750GB, and

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• Dish to enable external HDD use with its DVRs, use Ethernet to 'phone home'

  Published: August 9, 2007, 11:06 am

  Tags: Dish, Dish Network, Dishnetwork, Dishonline, Echostar, External Hdd, Externalhdd, Upgrade, Vip622

  Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, StorageDish Network users (and the ones that are about to be), commence rejoicing. According to MultiChannel, the satellite television provider is readying its "USB External Storage" solution, which will dole out a software update that allows users of the ViP622 HD DVR to attach their own USB hard drive for

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• Samsung shows off world's biggest 1.8-inch drive: 160GB

  Published: August 21, 2007, 9:10 am

  Tags: 1 8 Inch, Hard Disk Drive, Hard Drive, Harddiskdrive, Harddrive, Hdd, Samsung, Spinpoint, Spinpoint N2, Spinpointn2

  Filed under: Storage Samsung seems hell-bent on cramming every bit of data it can onto a 1.8-inch drive platter -- just two months after announcing the former capacity champ 120GB SpinPoint N2, the company is pre-announcing a 160GB version. Other than the size, the essential stats remain the same: 4200RPM, 15ms seek time, sub-1W power

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• Novac intros external HDD enclosure with sizable cooling fan

  Published: August 23, 2007, 12:04 am

  Tags: Aluminum, Case, Cooling Fan, Coolingfan, External Hard Drive, External Hdd, Externalharddrive, Externalhdd, Novac, Nv Hds392u, Sata, Ysb

  Filed under: Storage Paranoid about excessive heat? Looks like the folks at Novac share your worries, as the NV-HDS392U external hard drive enclosure packs one of the largest, most prominent cooling fans you're likely to find in such a device. Boasting an all-aluminum frame and measuring in at 2.16- x 7.2- x 4.69-inches, this unit plays nice with

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• Panasonic unveils HDD / SD-equipped boomboxes

  Published: August 30, 2007, 10:42 am

  Tags: Audio, D Dock, D Snap, Hdd Stereo, Hddstereo, Panasonic, Sc Sx450, Sc Sx850, Sd Stereo, Sdstereo, Sh Pd9, Stereo

  drive to the internal HDD at 12x, and even gives folks the ability to transfer tracks to SD cards at 16x. Furthermore, the units tout 30-watts of power, an AM / FM tuner, MP3 / AAC / WMA support, and play nice with your iPod or SV-SD800N / SV-SD400V D-snaps with the requisite adapters. No word on pricing just yet, but those dwelling in

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• Hitachi's Big Blu-ray Announcement

  Published: August 31, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Cameras, Blu Ray, Cameras, Hdd, Hitachi, Video

  At yesterday's Blu-ray keynote, the BDA promised the press that Hitachi would be making a major Blu-ray announcement today. It got a few of us excited. After all, this is the company that is releasing the world's first Blu-ray camcorder—whatever this device could be, it would be a potential milestone.

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• Computers with Hybrid HDD from SONY

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:24 am

  Tags: Gadgets, Technology News, General, Images, Daily Update, Computers Hybrid, Hdd From Sony

  Hybrid HDD souk adds two more brands as SONY and NEC introduce their new bunch of computers. Now, take this for a surprise as most of the Japanese media did not lay stress on the fact that some of the model received Hybrid HDD! I, guess this tech (electronic stuff) is like a fish market in Japan (one tends to miss out at many delightful dishes).

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• LaCie intros 4TB Biggest Quadra RAID drive

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:05 am

  Tags: 4tb, Biggest Quadra, Biggestquadra, Esata, External Hard Drive, External Hdd, Externalharddrive, Externalhdd, Firewire, Firewire 800, Firewire800, Lacie, Raid

  Filed under: Storage LaCie's 4TB Biggest Quadra certainly isn't the largest drive to rock the LaCie badge, but it does give users four ways to sync it up with their PC or Mac. The four-disk RAID drive touts FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0 and eSATA interfaces, supports RAID levels 0, 0+1 and 5, and will automatically shut down if temperates

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• Apple's iPod Classic Is Overgrown, Hard-Drive Equipped Nano

  Published: September 5, 2007, 1:27 pm

  Tags: Portable, Entertainment, Hdd, Ipod, Portable

  Apple just introduced the iPod classic, a revamped version of the standard clickwheel iPod in silver and black—no more whites. An 80GB model (30 hours audio, 5 hours video on the battery) will cost $249. A 160GB version which is thicker than the 80GB classic but still thinner that the 5th-gen 80, will cost $349. It holds 40,000 songs and

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• Toshiba: Toshiba Announces 160GB 1.8" Drive (iPod Classic Drive?)

  Published: September 6, 2007, 10:20 am

  Tags: Apple, Hdd, Ipod, Ipod Classic, Peripherals, Portable Media, Toshiba

  Toshiba has just announced the "world's highest-capacity 1.8" hard drisk drive," a new 160GB CE-ATA drive aimed at the PMP market, along with an 80GB PATA drive of the same size. Hmmm...sounds so familiar. I'm actually fairly pumped about the new, massive iPod Classic, glad that Apple hasn't written off those of us who are far too anal but to

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