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PCI Express 3.0 standard delayed to 2010; products not until 2011

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 21st 2009 No Comments

pci express logo If you were holding off on picking up a new motherboard thinking that you’d wait until PCI Express 3.0 made its appearance, you’ll have to put up with your existing ‘board for a while longer. The PCI Special Interest Group has confirmed that the specification for the standard will be delayed into 2010, rather than the late 2009 launch initially expected, with organization president Al Yanes explaining that it was the much-vaunted backward compatibility that was causing the most headaches.

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ioSafe Solo Review – Rugged Disaster Proof External Hard Drive

By Ewdison Then on Tuesday, Jul 14th 2009 3 Comments

We’ve covered numerous backup systems here on SlashGear, ranging from simple USB hard-drives through network-attached media boxes and full-on RAID arrays, but bar individual drive failure we’ve never really considered the impact of physical damage. That’s exactly the sort of thing that ioSafe have in mind with their Solo drive, up to 1.5TB of fireproof, waterproof storage. SlashGear have been testing it out.

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Samsung 32GB DDR3 RAM stick revealed

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Jun 18th 2009 No Comments

Supposedly, Samsung has done something completely different today by announcing their 32GB DDR3 RAM stick. In fact, the company is claiming this is the first 32GB DDR3 RAM, ever, which is pretty impressive.

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Garmin Foretrex 301, 401 GPS announced

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Jun 16th 2009 No Comments

Garmin announced today new models for their Foretrex line, specifically the Foretrex 301 and the Foretrex 401. These models are wrist-mounted and offer a convenient GPS device on the go.

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Vudu partners with Entone for set-top box service

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, May 5th 2009 No Comments

Vudu will soon be offering its movies on a third-party set-top box, changing up their title and adding the function of service provider to their already able hardware manufacturer moniker. Who is this third-party company in question? That would be Entone.

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RunCore Pro IV SSDs offer super speed for a price

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, May 4th 2009 No Comments

RunCore just announced their latest solid-state drive and though it’s certainly fast, the price tag might be just a bit too high for what you get. The Pro IV SSD is the device’s name and it’ll be interesting to see just what has jacked up the price.

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Palm Pre hardware worth $138 suggest iSuppli

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Apr 29th 2009 No Comments

Tech industry analysts iSuppli have performed a virtual break-down of the Palm Pre, and decided that the unreleased smartphone will cost the company $138 in hardware. Working from both known suppliers and extrapolating the rest from Palm’s confirmed specifications, iSuppli deemed that Palm will see a 44-percent return on each device it sells to Sprint, after taking into account software licensing and royalty costs.

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CitiDISK R258 tapeless video recorder debuts

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

If tapeless video recording is your thing, you’ll be interested to hear that Shining Technology has just announced their latest offering, the CitiDISK R258, which is a portable device that offers plenty of space to store your footage.

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LaCie announces 3 new RAID solutions, up to 32TB

By Steven Grady on Monday, Apr 20th 2009 No Comments

If any of you can actually use 32TB of RAID storage, I’ll be amazed. Users can combine either two or four LaCie 4big Quadras, which feature four hot-swappable disks, seven RAID modes including RAID0 and RAID5, and storage up to 32TB at 700Mb/s transfer speeds.

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iStarUSA xAGE 902 HDD Docking Station Review

By Ewdison Then on Monday, Feb 2nd 2009 No Comments

External drive caddies have been a boon for anyone wanting to switch one hard-drive between several systems. Start playing with more than one drive, however, and opening up the caddy gets tiresome: instead, take a look at the “toaster” style drive dock. iStarUSA’s xAGE902-SAUF accepts both 3.5 and 2.5 inch drives in an easy-access top-loading slot. More than that, it offers no less than four different connection types – eSATA, USB 2.0, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 – to suit all but the most stubborn of systems. Is this the last drive dock you’ll ever need? SlashGear set to finding out.

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