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Addonics NAS25HDU2 NAS caddy: plenty of promise, a few annoying flaws

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 17th 2009 No Comments

We want to find Addonics NAS25HDU2 single-drive NAS adapter appealing – after all, a hard-drive caddy that makes any HDD network-accessible, as well as offering printer sharing and standalone BitTorrent downloads has to be good, right? – but there are a few blemishes on the spec sheet that have us looking elsewhere. We can live without the RAID support, after all we’re assuming you’re not keeping your entire system backup on a single-drive solution, but the 10/100 rather than gigabit ethernet interface is at odds with the media server image.

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Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 NAS Review

By Ewdison Then on Monday, Oct 26th 2009 No Comments

We liked the original Iomega StorCenter ix2 back when we reviewed it roughly twelve months ago, but the rest of the home NAS market has advanced in the intervening period and the ix2 is looking a little stale. To address that fact, Iomega have launched the StorCenter ix2-200, their second-gen version of the dual-drive backup station, now boasting removable storage and more. Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Brite-View CinemaTube is an HD Media Player With Integration

By Evan Selleck on Monday, Aug 31st 2009 No Comments

The CinemaTube has gone up for pre-order today. It’s a media player that connects to your tv, and gives you the ability to watch stored movies, pictures, and other videos right from the box. No longer have to worry about physical media anymore, just in case you were one of those people who thought that the way of the disk was for dinosaurs. Media is going the digital way, and Brite-View wants you to get there in the high definition way.

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D-Link DIR-685 Xtreme N router gets reviewed: expensively excellent

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jun 30th 2009 No Comments

As hugely convergent devices go, D-Link’s DIR-685 Xtreme N Storage Router could be best of breed. Announced at CES in January, the DIR-685 not only offers WiFi draft-n support and four gigabit ethernet ports, but a 3.5-inch display with multimedia widgets, dual USB 2.0 ports for sharing printers and external drives, and an internal 2.5-inch HDD bay for turning it into a NAS. Overkill or network overlord? OhGizmo! took a look, and while the DIR-685 is expensive it’s also just as capable as you’d hope.

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Rock Band Unplugged for PSP leaks; Could cause PSP glitches

By Chris Davies on Thursday, May 21st 2009 No Comments

Rock Band Unplugged for the PSP has leaked, three weeks ahead of the game’s official release. Already to be found on popular torrent sites, the Harmonix title has already been downloaded almost fourteen thousand time according to just one metric. However, some users are reporting serious issues when playing the illegally-obtained game.

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Myka open-source media player takes on Apple TV

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, May 19th 2009 No Comments

Attempting to take on the Apple TV comes Myka, an open-source digital media receiver that trades movie studio approval for a standalone BitTorrent client and more A/V codec support than you could shake a metaphorical stick at. Packing hard-drives up to 500GB in capacity, the compact box also supports remote access from any internet-enabled PC or cellphone.

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Video demos after the cut

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LaCie Big Disk Network and d2 Network with BitTorrent

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, May 6th 2009 No Comments

LaCie have announced two new storage servers intended for small workgroups. The LaCie Big Disk Network and d2 Network can each support up to 50 users (15 simultaneously), with the Big Disk having dual RAID 0 drives for up to 4TBs capacity, while the d2 Network has 1.5TB of its own storage plus an eSATA port for adding external high-speed drives.

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Leaked Windows 7 RC torrents infected with trojan

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Apr 28th 2009 No Comments

Various torrents of the Windows 7 RC have been infected with a trojan that, if allowed to run successfully, could open a security hole in a user’s system. The affected torrents have the setup.exe install file encapsulated in a self-extracting archive, along with an installer for the trojan itself; launching it triggers an install of both Windows 7 RC and the malware.

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Pirate Bay submits petition for a retrial

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Apr 27th 2009 No Comments

Defendants from The Pirate Bay submitted a petition for a retrial today, moving forward on accusations that the trial itself was unfair and shouldn’t count. The official claim is that Judge Tomas Norstrom, who presided over the trial was biased.

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