Asus’ new drive is a very slim external BD burner that stands vertically to save on space, and draws power from the USB connection to spare users from having to plug in an extra power cable.
Asus has taken the DVD drive, trimmed it down, given it a fresh coat of paint, and named it the External Slim SDRW-08D1S-U. The slim box has a vertical, stand-up form factor, which can save you a bit of desktop real estate. Available in black or white, this very glossy model doesn’t need a power adapter so you don’t have to deal with a bulky cable either.
LaCie just announced the very fast d2 Blu-ray drive that burns discs up to 8x speed. This release actually doubles the speed of the company’s previous Blu-ray drive model. It can fit around 50GB of data (or 4 hours of high definition video) on a single Blu-ray disc – that’s 10 times as much data as you can burn on a DVD. It also burns at the same speed on both single and dual-layer discs.
LaCie has rolled out its Hard Disk MAX high capacity storage system, which comes with a whopping 2TB storage capacity and RAID features. The sleek black box by industrial designer Neil Poulton contains 2 large-capacity drives that can be configured to either RAID 0 (for high capacity) or RAID 1 (for high security). RAID 0 will stripe data across both of the disks for fast data retrieval, while RAID 1 will mirror data exactly on both disks to assure data reliability. A switch at the back of the box lets you do that in a jiffy, while a blue LED strip under it will flash red to warn you of problems.
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