A hard drive and media player in one?

Have you ever thought of bringing a portable video player on the road? Of course, you may think I might be talking about portable DVDs, but no. If you have a wide collection of movies at home, will you bring your CDs with you to your destination? Of course not! That would be too much of a hassle.

To the movie buffs, here’s a treat for you. Chinavasion is again trying to catch up with the big names in the hard drive industry as they have come up with a portable external hard drive that can be used a media player. The player has a 120GB capacity and a 2.5 inches wide screen for viewing. It also has an earphone jack, so you can basically bring it everywhere you go—even in places that value silence.

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Hard drive dock and more.

Look at your workplace. Have you ever wondered how you can get rid of all those wires hanging around? No, I am not saying that you must go wireless with all your things as you might spend a lot of money on buying new gadgets when in fact the old ones are still working. You just have to be a little organized about your home wiring system as this may cause a lot of accidents. But believe me, even if you decided not to go wireless, your workplace can still be as organized as you can imagine.

How about getting some of those docks made by Unitek? They are currently selling in the market a dock wherein a lot of computer gadgets can be connected. Aside from the 4 card reader slots and the 2 USB ports available, you can even insert an external hard drive in it.

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Going all the way in protecting your files.

If you have very important documents or files in your current hard drive, have you ever wondered how you can really “protect” your files from being destroyed? Of course, there are a lot of ways on how you can protect the files inside such as encrypting the drive with a password or buying one of those hard drives with fingerprint recognition. However, having these can only protect what’s on the inside. Have you ever thought of protecting the outside?

Sentry(R)Safe cared so much about protecting your precious files that they made a gadget that is both water and fire proof. The hard drive has a 160GB capacity and was given a lot of awards by some of the most known companies and critics in the world of technology.

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Fusion F2 is now 1TB.

Those who are in the media industry should definitely invest on hard drives since they store their creations in them. Hard drives with large capacities are also needed to store full length movie masterpieces or numerous video clips for later viewing or editing. Sonnet has hit the hearts of the media gurus, manufacturing a high quality, high capacity piece of gadget: their Fusion F2 portable RAID solution. It is light weight, weighing only about 1.22 pounds, and since the hard drive has a RAID capable, you won’t be needing a drive C, D, E, or F on your computer anymore; the Fusion F2 can pretty much store as much data as you can imagine.

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Feeling a little unsecure?

If your business or job calls for secrecy, then you might want to store your documents in a safe place. Of course, our generation has already given up on manual storage and we let have let computers do this tedious task for us. However, there are some security risks when we store soft copies of our documents in a hard drive. First off, you must create backup copies of your documents. We will never know when your hard drive will fail you. Second, you might want to invest on hard drive security. Chinavasion has made a step towards this kind of security. They made a hard drive that can only be accessed with fingerprint recognition. The hard drive can recognize as much as 10 fingerprints, and so you can actually limit the access of your files. Fingerprint recognition can in fact be more secure than password encryption because hackers nowadays are becoming more ingenious.

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How fast can your hard drive go?

Seagate, one of the pioneers in computer parts manufacturing, has again unleashed a monster hard drive that claims to be the fastest hard drive in the whole world. With a 15,000 rpm capability, consumes only about two thirds the power a typical hard drive consumes, and has a seek time of about 12% faster than the other hard drives in the market. No wonder Seagate claims that it’s the fastest—with all the features this gadget boasts of, indeed, no other hard drive can topple it. The Savvio 15K are available in two capacities, 36GB and 73GB. Though the storage capacity is smaller than the rest of the available hard drives, there seems to be a balance here since, well, it’s the fastest.

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An external hard drive that can fit your pocket.

For all the Mac users (and also those who use PC), good news! Western Digital has indeed resurfaced again with their new product: the Western Digital My Passport Studio. It is an external hard drive and has the capacity of 320 GB. Those who are in the media business, this gadget’s for you. It is bus powered, Mac OSX ready, and is quiet during operation. Unlike the more common external hard drives that click or whine during operation, you can be assured that the Western Digital My Passport Studio isn’t one of them. It’s lightweight and measures only up to 2.5 inches, is can surely fit in your pocket as you travel on the road.

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Deviating from the traditional act.

Have you ever downloaded movies off the internet? Or perhaps buy DVDs so that you can keep copies of the movies that made you laugh? Well, from now on, according to PortoMedia, a local media company from Ireland, you won’t be buying CDs with bulky cases or download a 600 – 700 MB movie, so that you can watch that hilarious movie again and again. PortoMedia made a stall or kiosk that can hold up to 5,000 movies in it. All you have to do is to insert your flash drive into the machine, enter the password you have acquired from the kiosk owner and voila! You can now download the video you’ve always wanted.

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