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Fractal Design Launches Define R3 Tower Chassis

By Terry Walsh on August 11, 2010 in Hardware, News

Whilst we love Fractal Design’s Mini ITX Array NAS Chassis for its compact size and great looks, sometimes you need a case that’s a little larger – but that doesn’t mean you have to compromise on design. The company have just announced details of their new Define R3 chassis, a large case for desktop and server usage which fits up to eight hard drives.

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Hands-On: Tranquil PC iXL Power PC

By Terry Walsh on July 20, 2010 in Desktop PC Reviews, Hardware, News, Reviews, Windows Media Center

Tranquil PC’s latest interpretation of the silent HTPC lands at WGS for review, and it’s the best we’ve seen from them in some time.

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Hitachi Unveils LifeStudio Portable and Desktop Storage Range

By Terry Walsh on July 7, 2010 in News, Storage

Hitachi today announced the launch of its LifeStudio range of portable and desktop storage, which not only stores your data but helps you acquire and organise your music, videos, photos and documents on PCs, connected USB devices and social networks.

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Shuttle X350 Mini-HTPC Now Pre-Ordering

By Terry Walsh on June 28, 2010 in Hardware, News, Windows Media Center

Vying for your attention in the Mini-HTPC category is Shuttle’s X350, a fan-less, 1.5” thin PC powered by our favourite CPU/GPU combo, the Intel Atom D510 processor and NVIDIA ION2. With HDMI out and 1080P video support, the X350 looks like it’ll do a great job for high definition media in the living room.

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HP Announce New SmartSave External Hard Drive Range

By Terry Walsh on June 24, 2009 in Hardware

2.5″ and 3.5″ external hard drives coming soon, with on board backup software and sizes from 320Gb to 2Tb.

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2TB Hard Drives Have Arrived

By Terry Walsh on January 27, 2009 in Hardware, Windows Home Server

New Western Digital Green hard drive pushes capacity even further.

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Add-In: Jungle Disk (Desktop Edition) v0.1

By Terry Walsh on January 25, 2009 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

New add-in allows you to use Jungle Disk’s full desktop application within Windows Home Server, as a replacement for the company’s own limited WHS add-in.

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Be a Beta Tester for Tranquil PC

By Terry Walsh on January 5, 2009 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

Tranquil Life Server online backup service in need of a hammering.

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Going Green: Recycle Your Old Laptop Case

By Jim Clark on November 28, 2008 in Hardware

I inherited this laptop case. It was a real nice Samsonite case, but worthless for the computers out there now. It was simply too small. One day, I was doing a mod to one of my computers. I went to one bin to get parts. I went to one drawer to get tools. I went to another place to get something else I needed. Get the picture?

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