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Group aims to drastically up disc storage

Group aims to drastically up disc storageFatal flaw in Optware HVD?http://p2pnet.net/story/3855HVD Flaw"...US data storage pioneer Michael Thomas, who's staked out holographic storage for his own"...This quote is from the referenced article. It seems Thomas has a vested interest in seeing Optware fail and the early phases of its development...

Tags: Holographic Versatile Disc, storage, disc storage, disc

Discussion threads 2005-02-11

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The Undelete 6.13.8 (Windows)

Lost files? Deleted documents? Crashed hard drives or corrupted partitions? Recover your files and data automatically with The Undelete, a complete data recovery solution for NTFS and FAT drives. Electronic documents are an essential part of everyday life. Accidentally deleting a document or formatting a disc can become a disaster...

Tags: Data Recovery, Microsoft Windows, Undelete, Live Preview Feature, Undelete Smart Scan Feature, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-25

New DVDs store digital photos for centuries

Obsolete solution surely?1. Surely the cost of cloud disk storage, being two orders of magnitude lower, renders this obsolete?2. Important to consider the file format too: no good having jpg if Photoshop 3010 can't read it! Indeed could one be sure that tiff will still be around in 1000 years?...

Tags: Consumer electronics, disk, mankind, photograph, Cranberry DiamonDisc, digital photograph

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

NetGear WNHDEB111 HD Gaming Wireless N Networking Kit

Editors' note: As the NetGear WNHDEB111 HD Gaming Wireless N Networking Kit is a gaming networking accessory, we didn't put it through the same testing process we use for wireless routers.While home wireless products continue to invade the marketplace, the demand for high-speed wireless performance increases. At this point,...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Wi-Fi Protected Setup, Netgear Inc., router, wireless, network

Product reviews 2009-11-05

DiscWizard 11.0.8142 (Windows)

DiscWizard provides PC users with an easy, GUI-driven solution for installing, formatting, and partitioning hard disc drives. DiscWizard helps PC users easily add high-capacity ATA and SCSI disc drives for today's exploding audio/visual and Internet applications. Drive installation is more automated than ever, taking the burden off of the user....

Tags: Disc, Microsoft Windows, Seagate Technology LLC, DiscWizard

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Nero BackItUp & Burn 1.2.17b (Windows)

Nero's BackItUp & Burn, now compatible with Windows 7 operating system, provides easy-to-use tools that let you back up files, restore lost data, and burn music, videos, photos, and data to CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs and online. Back up data to hard drive, CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, FTP, memory card,...

Tags: Blu-ray Disc, Storage, Nero, Microsoft Windows, Blu-Ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-10-27

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

iPhotoBurnToDisc 1.1.3 (Mac)

An iPhoto Plug-In that simplifies the process of exporting your images to multiple DVDs or CDs for sharing, archiving or off-site storage. Disc names and image placement folder hierarchies are automatically generated from user-defined elements such as disc number, image number, burn date and project name.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Disc, Blue Room Software

Software downloads 2009-10-13

Optical storage: RIP

Vintage Zip DriveI've actually got a Zip 100 SCSI drive sitting around with a ton of disks. Cost a ton when it was new, but now it's just an antique paperweight...Optical storage is not a dead endSSD drives are never going to catch on for some big things, like PC...

Tags: Games, SSD Drives, SSD, optical media, hard drive, CD, game, Cd/DVd, storage, Optical Storage

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

Sony debuts Vaio X; 'world's lightest laptop': 11.1", 14-hour battery

Processor is a Z550 (2GHz)I went to the Sony ordering page and that is what it shows as the processor.RE: Sony debuts Vaio X; 'world's lightest laptop': 11.1If I were going to go to the PC route, I would definitely get a Vaio. They are the best PC laptops...

Tags: Desktops, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp., Vaio X, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, lightest laptop, laptop computer, battery, OEM, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

HP MediaSmart EX495 Server

Editors' note: The HP MediaSmart Server EX495 has a very similar feature set to that of the already reviewed LX 195. For this reason, you might have a slight feeling of deja vu while reading the feature section of this review.Priced at around $700, the HP MediaSmart Server EX495 is...

Tags: Servers, server, HP MediaSmart, hard drive, HP MediaSmart Server, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2009-10-02

What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?

RE: What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?The transfer speed will remain meaningless until SATA 10k and 15k RPM speeds become the norm. The speed of the data retrieval from the platters is the biggest factor in drive performance. The disk drive is and will remain the...

Tags: Performance management, Main Memory, OS/driver, Gbit SATA, disk

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Terabit 3-D chips will keep the flash party rolling

more than three years ago...flash was replacing DRAM more than 3 years ago... I don't know exactly what you mean by "economic competitor" but seeing as flash has many advantages over DRAM, even if it was more expensive, it was a comparable competitor. And I had a flash BIOS mobo......

Tags: Memory, chip, 3D, DRAM

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all

I agreeusb flash drive would be betterBut, why are you asking the question about the Beatles?Minor CorrectionDL DVDs hold 8.4GB and not 5.4In regards to the article I think Optical Media is a media that is slowly phasing out but the cost of the media for most purposes is still...

Tags: Flash memory, Consumer electronics, optical media, USB flash drive, DVD, optical drive

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Oppo BDP-83

Photo gallery:Oppo BDP-83Ever since standalone Blu-ray players hit the market, there's been a great deal of anticipation for an Oppo Blu-ray player, mainly because of the company's reputation for making excellent upconverting DVD players. Oppo held out for quite some time, and in retrospect it was a smart move; almost...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Home entertainment, Blu-ray, DVD, Oppo BDP-83

Product reviews 2009-09-02

Silverkeeper 2.0.2 (Mac)

SilverKeeper is a free application from LaCie that automates backups to external storage devices like hard drives, and other removable storage devices that have SATA/eSATA, IDE, ATA/ATAPI, SCSI, USB, or FireWire interfaces. It can also make disc image backups to network storage devices.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Removable Storage, Network Storage, LaCie, SilverKeeper, Storage, Flash Memory, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-01

Iomega's NAS: Is the mainstream ready for network storage?

I want one! ntntWow, that is monstrously overpriced...$699? You must be joking.I can get an 8(*t)b ReadyNAS for that, and it's a much better box. This isn't just 'kind of overpriced,' this is, 'wow, did the people buying this buy the first thing they saw?!' overpriced.Pricing from Iomega:CAPACITY CONNECTIVITY ITEM...

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, Apple Time Capsule, Consumer NAS, Iomega Corp., storage, NAS, tech support, network, network storage

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

Hollywood studios offer 'download to own' DivX movies online; Film Fresh the new iTunes?

Too little, too late?This should have happened a long time ago. Since these files are being downloaded anyway, by charging a fair, low price, these media companies stand to get a lot of cash where they didn't get a dime before.The question is, is it already too late?What about DRM?I...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, DVD, Consumer electronics, Apple iTunes, Hollywood Studios, digital-rights management, DivXNetworks, Film Fresh, PlayReady

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Free Disc Burner 1.2.1.54 (Windows)

Free Disc Burner burns any kind of data to CD, DVD, and Blu-ray discs. It burns multisession discs there is a possibility to rewrite files to the same disc, lets to erase information from a disc. The program supports the following types of optical storage media: BD-R/BD-RE, DVD-R Double Layer,...

Tags: Disc, Microsoft Windows, DVDVideoSoft

Software downloads 2009-08-20

Sony PlayStation 3 Slim - 120GB

Photo gallery:Sony PlayStation 3 SlimBack in 2004, four years after first launching the PlayStation 2, Sony brought out a new, much more compact PS2. Timed to come out just as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was hitting stores, the redesigned console helped breath new life into the PS2 franchise. It...

Tags: Game players, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Playstation, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-08-19