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Umazone UMA-ISO automatically mounts your DVD images

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 17th 2009 1 Comment

Japanese accessory manufacturer Umazone have outdone themselves with a hard-drive caddy that will likely strike a chord with anyone doing regular software installs. The Umazone UMA-ISO looks like a regular 2.5-inch HDD drive enclosure; however it also has a small display and, on the side, a jog wheel, which can be used to flick through ISO CD and DVD images stored on the drive inside. Once selected, plugging the UMA-ISO into a host computer is pretty much the same as dropping the original disc into a CD/DVD drive.

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ASUS Eee Box EB1012 and EB1501 Ion-toting nettops get video hands-on

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 19th 2009 No Comments

ASUS’ latest NVIDIA Ion based nettops have been well and truly pawed over by NetbookNews.de, and considering that the Eee Box EB1012 at least seems destined for the US market it’s only right that we should take an interest. The EB1012 – and the ASUS Eee Box EB1501 – uses Intel’s dual-core Atom 330 1.6GHz processor, paired with the Ion 1080p-capable graphics chipset, with the key difference being that the EB1501 finds room to squeeze in an optical drive.

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Fujitsu AMILO Pi 3560 and 3660 HD notebooks outed

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 8th 2009 No Comments

Fujitsu have outed two new notebooks, the AMILO Pi 3560 and 3660, with optional Blu-ray, HDMI connectivity and NVIDIA GeForce GT240M 1GB graphics. The AMILO Pi 3560 has a choice of 15.6 or 16-inch 16:9 LED-backlit displays, while the AMILO Pi 3660 has an 18.4-inch 16:9 display; both have standard WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth.

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ASUS O!Play HDP-R1 1080p media streamer on sale now for $100

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 1st 2009 1 Comment

ASUS’ diminutive O!Play HDP-R1 HD Media Player has finally gone on sale, with the 1080p-capable box priced at $99.99. Announced back in June, the O!Play offers playback of local, network or internet content, via various USB 2.0, eSATA or wired ethernet ports.

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Dell Inspiron Zino HD: nettop size, desktop power?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 13th 2009 No Comments

Dell’s latest mini-desktop, the Inspiron Zino HD, has broken cover, but the company obviously has some blackmail-quality information about Engadget and Gizmodo as neither site are spilling the details of what’s inside the low-profile box. Known so far is that there’s an optical drive, plenty of ports and interchangeable top covers with various patterns and finishes.

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ASUS O!Play HDP-R1 media streamer forgets the WiFi

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jun 3rd 2009 No Comments

ASUS have announced the O!Play HDP-R1 HD Media Player, a compact wired-only media streamer intended to funnel local and network content into your HDTV. Supporting HDMI and composite A/V connections for the display and a choice of USB 2.0, eSATA or wired ethernet, there’s also an optical digital audio output for use with a surround sound amp.

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Acer easyStore AH340-UA230N Home Server: 1TB+ for $400

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

Acer have announced their first consumer NAS running Windows Home Server, the Aspire easyStore AH340-UA230N. It may not have a snappy name, but it does have 1TB of standard storage plus three hot-swappable 3.5-inch hard-drive bays for a total of 7TB capacity. There are also five USB 2.0 ports and an eSATA connection.

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Apricorn Aegis Desktop capable of 1.5TB

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, May 20th 2009 No Comments

Apricorn announced their newest storage device today called the Aegis Desktop and this thing has a serious capacity. With up to 1.5TB of storage space, this device makes good and sure that you have plenty of room for everything.

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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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Sarotech Frigo RAID enclosures

By Chris Davies on Monday, May 4th 2009 No Comments

With a name that sounds awfully like a certain other external RAID enclosure, and a logo that’s also pretty similar, we could waste plenty of column inches calling Sarotech’s Frigo hard-drive enclosures Drobo knock-offs. Instead, let’s just accept that these things happen, and ask whether space for up to two (Sarotech Frigo RS-2) or four (Sarotech Frigo RS-4) 2TB SATA drives are tempting enough to overlook any similarities.

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