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LaCie 12big Rack Network NAS/iSCSI packs up to 24TB

Chris Davies, Dec 9th 2009 Discuss [0]

LaCie have outed a new NAS, and while the LaCie 12big Rack Network isn't likely to end up in many home installations, it all makes for pretty impressive reading. A 19-inch 2U rack-mounted unit, the 12big has a full twelve 3.5-inch hard-drive bays and is offered in 6TB, 12TB and 24TB versions. A hardware RAID controller allows for multiple different setups (RAID0, 1, 10, 5, 50, and 6, in fact) while Windows Storage Server 2008 is installed to manage data deduplication, file replication, encryption and automatic backup. Read The Full Story

Dell Precision M6500 Core i7 Extreme mobile workstation debuts

Chris Davies, Dec 1st 2009 Discuss [0]

Dell have updated their mobile workstation range of notebooks with the Precision M6500, packing a range of Intel Core i7 quad-core and Core i7 Extreme quad-core processors. There's also a considerable 17-inch 1920 x 1200 display - with various degrees of LED backlighting - together with up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, space for up to three hard-drives (up to 500GB HDD or 256GB SSD in each bay; various RAID setups available) and a choice of ATI FirePro M7740 1GB, NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M 1GB, or Quadro FX 3800M 1GB graphics. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Corsair P64 64GB SSD Review

Ewdison Then, Oct 8th 2009 Discuss [0]

Having long been the preserve of expensive ultraportables or performance intensive media processing and gaming machines, SSDs are beginning to trickle down the price ladder. There’s still more GB for your dollar in a traditional platter-based hard-drive, but switching to solid state is cheaper than ever. On the SlashGear test bench today we’ve got Corsair‘s 64GB P64 CMFSSD-64GBG2D SSD.

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Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 gets bigger, swappable drives

Chris Davies, Oct 8th 2009 Discuss [2]

It's been a long time since we reviewed Iomega's original StorCenter ix2 NAS, and the company have finally got around to updating the dual-drive consumer/small-office backup and media-sharing system. The Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 keeps the compact footprint of its predecessor but boosts capacity - 1TB, 2TB and 4TB models are on offer - upgrade potential and green credentials. Unlike the ix2, the ix2-200 has twin user-accessible drive bays, and they're filled with low-power drives that are automatically spun-down when not in use. The StorCenter also has DLNA media streaming, RAID 1 drive spanning for improved data security, three USB ports for plugging in external drives or webcams, and optional Bluetooth for wirelessly transferring files from mobile devices. Read The Full Story

QNAP adds TS-410 turbo NAS server to line

Shane McGlaun, Oct 6th 2009 Discuss [0]

QNAP makes all sorts of storage appliances with some aimed at big enterprise and business users and others aimed at the small office or home office user. QNAP has debuted its latest storage appliance called the TS-410, which is aimed directly at the SOHO/Prosumer user. Read The Full Story

Marvell 88SE9128 is industry’s first 6Gb/s SATA RAID controller

Shane McGlaun, Sep 23rd 2009 Discuss [0]

Earlier this week Seagate announced the first 6Gb/s SATA HDD called the Barracuda XT 2TB HDD. The new 6Gb/s HDD offers compatibility with an interface twice as powerful as previous hard drives. Read The Full Story