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Peripherals
Photofast CR-7200 CompactFlash Adapter Runs Four MicroSDs In RAID
11:00AM Johnny Tzeng | The new CompactFlash adaptor from Photofast can hold four 16GB microSD cards running in RAID. This makes the slower microSD format as fast as CompactFlash by striping data across all four microSD cards at once. More »
Hardware
WD’s My Book World Edition II Offers 4TB Of RAID Network Storage
10:00PM Dan Nosowitz | WD’s new NAS drives, the My Book World Edition II, packs either 2 or 4TB of storage in a dual-drive RAID array. It seems like a pretty solid system for those dangerously paranoid about the safety of their data. More »
Hardware
QNAP SS-839 Pro Turbo NAS Shrinks Mega RAID To Notebook Sizes
12:50AM Mark Wilson | The QNAP SS-839 Pro Turbo NAS is the smallest 8-bay networked attached storage solution on the market. In fact, it’s just a hair larger than a 7-inch cube. More »
Hardware
3.5′ Floppy Disk RAID Array Provides Nearly 4MB of Usable Space
5:15AM Dan Nosowitz | What to do with a mess of floppy disk drives, an iMac straight out of 1995, and some free time? Daniel Blade Olson whipped up what’s almost certainly the world’s first (and only) RAID array using floppies. More »
Hardware
Giz Explains: What a RAID Hard Drive Array Is (and Why You Want One)
4:00AM Matt Buchanan | RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.
Hardware
Western Digital’s 8TB ShareSpace NAS is One Beast of a Storage Hub
9:20AM Adam Frucci | Western Digital’s new 8TB ShareSpace NAS is a monster of a storage system for you media hoarders who want to share your good between multiple computers. More »
Gadgets
The Insane Hardware Driving the World’s Biggest LED Billboard
12:30PM Benny Goldman | In a dusty supply closet at 1 Times Square, a computer terminal hooked up to hordes of ethernet servers, RAID arrays and monitors humbly runs the largest LED sign in the world. The sign, a 3-sided, 17,000-square-foot Goliath, debuted last night at the opening of a Walgreens in New York City. Today, I got to see what makes it tick. galleryPost('walgreenssign', 3, ''); More »
Hardware
How To Choose the Best Network Storage for a Mac/PC Home
2:00AM John Mahoney | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/How_To_Choose_the_Best_Network_Storage_for_a_Mac_PC_Home_2'; Network-attached storage options are more abundant than ever, but jumping into the copious bush of NAS can be quite a task, especially if you want a system that plays nice with both PC and Mac. Macs have historically been an unreasonably complex challenge for many networking products, and NAS was no exception. Here I’ve assessed the usefulness of three different cash-conscious strategies for setting up a Mac-and-PC-friendly NAS: Building a NAS out of an old PC, using a router with an external USB drive and buying a dedicated product. More »
Hardware
SimpleTech Duo Pro: 4 Interfaces, 3 Terabytes, 2 Drives, 1 Happy Nerd
12:00PM Wilson Rothman | There are plenty of dual-hard-drive outboard storage systems on the market, but SimpleTech’s Duo Pro struck me as particularly brimming with awesomeness. It’s not a NAS—it’s totally local—but you have a choice of USB 2.0, FireWire 400 and 800, and eSATA, which clocks a max transfer speed of 3Gb per second. (That’s gigabits, not gigabytes.) You can naturally do RAID 0 or 1, and though the current options are a 1TB total for $US280, a 1.5TB total for $US420 and a 2TB version for $US550, you will be able to choose a 3TB config when the winter winds start to blow. Have a look at the back of this in the photo below the jump. [SimpleTech] More »
Peripherals
