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By Chris histrion Barr

Making a ikon of a hard impart isn’t something that most grouping do on a lawful basis, but it crapper be a discompose when you do encounter yourself in that position. It’s been a patch since I’ve had to do it, but the impact ever involved primary code and the concentrated tending of digit of my computers for a while. If you go finished this rattling often, you capableness be fascinated in this Double Rack USB/ eSATA dock.

This gadget allows you to block in digit hard drives, and ikon from digit to the other. The best conception is that this activeness does not order the ingest of your PC in some way. When you aren’t cloning drives, you crapper ingest it as a lawful hard impart dock. The website doesn’t specifically land if it supports IDE, SATA or both. It does conceive that it crapper ikon PS3 hard drives, so it at diminutive entireness with SATA (that also effectuation 2.5-inch drives are supported). $90 capableness be a discernment much for a colourless hard impart dock, but I’d feature it’s substantially worth the money if you ever domain to ikon your hard drive.

[ GeekStuff4U ] VIA [ TechFresh ]

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By Evan Ackerman

What with all of the, uh, legally purchased music and movies and games that I download buy, I fill up my hard drives once a year or so. Rather than buying a bunch of external drives, I just buy new bare drives, and swap ‘em out. There are any number of mildly convenient ways (like this, for example) to access a bare drive after you’ve eviscerated it out of your computer, but none of them are as convenient as just having a USB interface on the drive itself.

Now, this particular drive (a 1.8″ drive designed for mobile hardware) doesn’t have any interface besides the native USB, and this is obviously not acceptable for laptop or desktop use. But I don’t see why adding a a standard USB option to most internal drives wouldn’t be possible, and it would make accessing old data much, much easier as well as more robust. Plus, it’s likely that USB as an interface standard is going to be around way longer than PATA/IDE or SATA. This may not matter much right now, but it will in the future, by which time nobody will remember what all of those little tiny pins are supposed to plug into and you’ll just have to forget about recovering your (now vintage) porn stash.

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Sonnet’s a fun little company — when not hustling iPod chargers and transmitters, it’s providing the world with more sober, serious hardware, such as its RAID storage solutions. Among the company’s newest kit is Qio, a media card reader / writer that includes a E4P SATA host controller, four eSATA ports, and the usual array of P2, SxS and CompactFlash slots. If that weren’t enough, this device also includes an adapter so that your SD and XF cards don’t feel left out. Available for both desktop (PCIe) and laptop owners (ExpressCard), the HDD controller supports port multipliers allowing users to access up to 20 drives. Available sometime next month, pricing to be determined.

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Just as Buffalo did in December of last year, OCZ Technology is busting out a duo of netbook / notebook-ready SSDs in 16GB and 32GB capacities. Obviously aimed at the smaller, more low-cost machines, the company’s first ever Mini-PCIe solid state drives are a so-called “affordable flash-based storage option to significantly increase the capacity for netbooks.” The pair will be available in SATA and PATA interfaces, which will deliver read speeds of up to 110MB/sec and write speeds as high as 51MB/sec (or 45MB/sec [read] and 35MB/sec [write] for the PATA versions). Regrettably, there’s no mention of price, but you can bet these will come packed in a specced-out version of the firm’s Neutrino.
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By Andrew Liszewski

This morning A-DATA announced their new X25-M series SSDs that are actually co-logo’d with Intel which from what I can tell means the drives have been tested on the latest Intel-based laptops and workstations, and actually feature Intel Multi-Level Cell NAND flash memory. According to A-DATA, the X25-M series are currently the world’s fastest SATA 2.5-inch SSD drives with read speeds up to 250MB/sec and write speeds up to 70MB/sec with only an 85 microsecond read latency. The new drives are available in 80 or 160GB capacities, though I couldn’t find any pricing information in their press release.

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Well, what do we have here? An industry source has sent along information and images for a trio of new Dell Precision workstations using Intel’s Nehalem architecture. The T3500 (starts at $999) sports up to 24GB DDR3 ECC memory. Just above that, we’ve got the T5500 (starts at $1,620) with up to 72GB of memory and dual socket Intel Xeon. Meanwhile, granddaddy T7500 (pictured; starts at $1,800) boasts 192GB of three-channel DDR3 ECC memory up to 1066 or 1333MHz, dual native Gen 2 PCIe graphics slots and supports NVIDIA SLI technology. All models feature an E-SATA port, up to 1.5TB SATA HDD, dual / quad monitor support, DisplayPort connectors, and for those trying to keep some assemblance of eco friendliness, these are all Energy Star 5.0 compliant. We also caught wind of new EqualLogic PS6000 and SSD-equipped PS6000S storage arrays, which start at around $17,000 and $25,000, respectively. Interests piqued? Hit up the gallery below for some pics.

Update: Dell releases the official presser for the PS6000S.
Gallery: Dell Nehalem-based Precision T3500, T5500, and T7500 workstations, EqualLogic PS6000S solid state storage arrays

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It’s been a long time coming, but Seagate’s finally unveiled its first 2TB hard drive, the 3.5-inch Constellation ES. The hefty spinner also comes in 500GB and 1TB varieties and runs at 7,200RPM, which should make it a bit faster than Western Digital’s behemoth, according to reviews for the latter. It’ll be out calendar Q3, which we take to be fancy schmancy business talk for “this Summer.” Meanwhile, the 2.5-inch ES-less Constellation line sports 3 Gbps SATA and SAS 2.0 interface. Look for this one in 160GB and 500GB sizes sometime this quarter, with Dell said to be one the first companies to offer the drives. Check out one more out-of-this-world promotional image after the break.