The Western Digital NAS communicate with Dropbox

An update of the WD 2 GB application adds compatibility with DropBox.

The storage giant seeks to innovate for its range of NAS products, storage of data at home servers, by proposing an extension to all products My Book Live, My Book Live Duo and My Net N900 central HD.

In addition to its NAS products, the U.S. firm offers an application for mobile and IOS, but under Android, tablets to fly under the name WD 2 GB. An update of this application allows today, in addition to the copy of multimedia content on mobile and tablets, to send directly from the content from these devices and his sin to the Dropbox storage space.

Thus, it is possible to copy data directly from the NAS Western Digital to Dropbox space from anywhere with his mobile phone. It is also possible to send an e-mail containing a link redirecting directly to the household and this Sin from the WD 2 GB application.

The application itself is free and available on the iTunes AppStore, Google Play and Amazon Appstore applications stores, and is of course pair with one of the products in the range of Western Digital Personal Cloud Storage.

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Western Digital Red: optimized for the NAS disks

After the Green, Blue and Black, Western Digital discovers a new color and turns red.

Disk tray storage giant announced a new range in its already quite thick catalogue. If one knew the Western Digital "Green" at low speed of rotation and consuming less energy, the "Blue" midrange disk that can meet any needs and the "Black" for performance, going to have to get used to the "Red".

Western Digital therefore opens a new line this time dedicated to type NAS storage servers. To argue this launch, Western Digital relies on problems of reliability for hard disks of other lines that are normally not expected to operate 24/7.

On the menu of this range, optimizations around power consumption while offering specific tools to disks RAID mode operation. For example, with its NASware technology, the data after error recovery is directly integrated to avoid to discus in default too quickly in a RAID cluster. There are also compatible with the ATA Streaming, become essential for storage applications audio and video such as Windows Media Center that relies on this technique.

These hard drives are built around 64 MB cache SATA III bus and offer three sizes of 1 To 3 TB storage. The speed of rotation of the plateaus is variable according to the IntelliPower and the flow can go up to 150 MB/s sequential read. The public price of the 1 TB version is €99,90 (WD10EFRX), the 2TB is €129,90 (WD20EFRX) and finally the 3 To €189,90 (WD30EFRX), all being accompanied by a 3 year warranty. We hope that this new range is not only a change of color on a label for a little more expensive sell these hard drives, and that differences with the Green discs will be well notable for use in a home NAS.

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HGST/Western Digital launches its 7 K 4000, a 4 TB hard drive

Hitachi GST - or rather Western Digital - launches the commercialization of its new drive hard high density of 4 To, for the time reserved for companies.

A destination of business first and foremost, HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) - now in the hands of Western Digital - announces the production of its new 4 TB hard disk, called Ultrastar 7 K 4000 which we knew already the specifications. As its name indicates, it runs at 7200 t/m and although offers 4 TB of disk space.

Compared to the 7 K 3000 Ultrastar, it offers 33% additional space with a consumption report go reduced by 24%. To provide important flows, it has a SATA 6 Gb/s (and non-SAS) connector with a 64 MB cache. Blocks on the disk sizes are 4 k with a 512-byte emulator directly managed by the disk, known 512e Advanced Format, making it compatible with older operating systems does not support this new formatting system.

This disk is accompanied by advanced features as the DSA (Dual Stage Actuator) and RVS (Enhanced Rotational Vibration Safeguard) or BDE (Bulk Data Encryption) that allow businesses to ensure availability important. Indeed, this 7 K 4000 Ultrastar has a MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of 2 million hours. This new range is available in small quantities in his adaptations of 2TB, 3TB and 4 To, all covered by a five year warranty. There is unfortunately no price to which share these new hard drives for the moment.

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Western Digital: a centre of R & D for SSD at Taiwan

Western Digital continues to invest on the SSD. Still not to the general public, but perhaps soon...

If Western Digital seems to begin to see the end of the tunnel in Thailand for the production of hard drives, the constructor think to start on the growing market of disks to flash for the public memory. Indeed, we learn that Western Digital is about to set up a centre of R & D in Hsinchu (Taiwan) of 50 specialists whose work will be entirely devoted to the development of DSS.

Currently, Western Digital has already a centre of R & D of SSD in his headquarters in the United States with approximately 200 engineers, but the creation of this new unit of research and development demonstrated the willingness of the manufacturer to accelerate its deployment in the carrier market. However, the R & D of Hsinchu Department will be operational before ps about 1 year. If Western Digital is implementing this Department, it is also so if occupy the DSS of Hitachi GST, recently purchased, and the DSS appear on the market early 2012.

Western Digital explains that the selling prices of SSDS is currently the main brake on mass-market development, well that more and more products allow SSD to enter the market (such as the arrival of the ultrabooks). It is therefore too early to see Western Digital offer SSD to the grand public, but things continue to be put in place in this sense. Reminder, Western Digital has since mid-2009 of the DSS to professionals.

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Hard drives: Western Digital production resumes

Small update on the situation of Western Digital in Thailand, where the manufacturer has been able to reopen one of its production units.

We follow closely the situation in Thailand, where Western Digital - disk hard - a world leader in saw its plants be put out of action produce following terrible floods. Since then, everyone is his commentary on the shortage begins to strike and could continue for a good part of the year 2012. Which has the impact visible to blow up the prices of the drives, as we see there is little in analyzing price at online stores.

In this context, any encouraging news is good to take. In this case, it is Western Digital announced have been able to boost its production on one of its sites where floods receded, at Bang Pa - In. A site where a single plant to resumed, while she was drowned under 2 metres of water since October 15. Rule pumping and a reconstruction of the power supply helped revive manufacturing. In the other buildings at the site, reclamation continues and the machines were transported to be analyzed and repaired.

However, Western Digital is not ready to see the end of the tunnel. Indeed, we also learn that another plant of the same site will not resume before March 2012. A plant paramount as it manufactures the sliders of the disks (the heads of reading and writing), forcing the manufacturer to find heads from other suppliers. Finally, Western Digital evaluates for the first time the harm suffered, and considers that the flood will cost him between 225 and 275 million dollars on the only fourth quarter 2011.

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Lytro: a revolution for digital photo?

A method for taking innovative redefines the field of digital photography for a treatment of the development on the fly on his computer...

Lytro, a California-based start-up based in Mountain View, is poised to launch a funny digital camera of the same name with which it intends to propose a new alternative to digital photo enthusiasts. Method is called "Light Field Capture" and it is to capture the light field to form an image, that is to say all of the lights through a scene, not only light which has just hit the sensor of the device.

This unusual AFN sensor works with a complex optical set to save the information necessary for the creation of the photo, i.e. colors, the intensity of the light and the direction in which the broadcasts. This small paragraph technical to explain that in fact, each image taken with a Lytro device allows the development on the image at the time of the re - treatment, that is to say directly from his computer (soft to read and work images for CFLs format is available for Mac and not yet for Windows, but this cannot delay).

More need to make the development before taking a photo, can therefore choose a second time if you prefer that the sharpness is on the first, second or third plan, etc. Another advantage of the system, it allows to easily create a 3D relief from a single photo image, and this still at the time of reworking the image on his computer.

The first digital cameras of Lytro will be delivered from early 2012, and a U.S. mailing address holders can already order them at the price of $ 399 for the models blue and grey of 8 GB (350 photos stored on average, each snapshot weighing little more than 20 MB), and $ 499 for the 16 GB red model. To do nothing spoil the design of these cameras like no other is also that successful original. While length to integrate lenses, they are pretty with their chassis aluminum anodized and minimalist, with a simple button for shooting and "1.46 screen to control the framing.

By visiting the official website of Lytro, we learn in the sheet that the opening of these devices is fixed at f/2 and that they offer optical zoom 8 x. 24 X 36 mm equivalent range is unfortunately not indicated, as the definition achieved "HD" clichés. The Lytro weighs 214 g, are 11.2 cm long and 4.1 cm wide and high. And it would love able try a!

> more information: Lytro.com

> some examples of photos to re - develop

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Casio digital camera for beginners

Casio introduces the EXILIM EX-ZS100 a solid digital camera with zoom and 14.1 Megapixels, which according to the company also for novice photographers must be simple to operate.

The new EXILIM has a 24 mm wide angle lens and 12.5 times optical zoom, but is nevertheless quite slim and compact. Also difficult to approach objects thanks to the powerful zoom and wide angle lens well to approach. The camera also features a Macro function for shooting subjects to one inch from the lens.

The EX-ZS100 has specific buttons for basic photography features, such as capturing, reviewing and deleting photos. In addition, the camera has a ' Easy Mode ' that frequently used functions with large fonts and icons on the screen shows. Instructions on the screen also lead people who don't frequent shooting to the optimal settings for their photos.

The built-in ' Silent Mode ', you must ensure that the environment are not to last. So disable this mode the operating noises of the camera and Flash and they immediately deactivate the self-timer. Additionally, the camera on a variety of other features, such as the ' BEST SHOT Mode ' that are looking for the optimal settings for a specific scene. In addition, you can use the new Casio HD movies make of 1280 x 720 pixels and is he to recharge via USB.

The EXILIM EX-ZS100 is from september available in silver, red or black, at a suggested retail price of € 189.99.

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Nostalgeek 2001 (13) : 3dfx, Western Digital, Matrox

Although nothing interesting, if motherboards are legions at CeBIT, new are rare. Single point interesting: Intel shows a Pentium 4 2 GHz processor on its stand. And not a Northwood 130 nm but a "simple" Willamette 180 nm.In 2011, the race for the frequency has resumed, with processors approaching (again) the 4 GHz, while this limit was close in 2005 with a Pentium 4.

3dfx, it's really over. NVIDIA bought part of the assets, the rest disappears. Players are sad. During this time, Matrox Announces a new card: not a Parhelia 2, a Millennium G450... in PCI. The followers of the multiscreen love.

In 2011, the only thing which remains of 3dfx is the SLI name, reused by NVIDIA. And of course some players the time of the Glide Nostalgeek. And for those who like to install several screens, there are powerful cards to manage six screens. The PCI was replaced by PCI-Express x 1 for appoints graphics cards.Western Digital has announced a range of hard drives 7 200 rpm with a record density: 27 GB per platter. It is therefore possible to offer fast hard drives with a capacity of 80 GB, which is huge. After Sony, it is the turn of TDK to propose a technology increasing the capacity of the CD - R: ML discs can store 2 GB on a media 12 cm in diameter.

In 2011, high range hard drives are 3 To and announced at CeBIT 2011 trays are 1 To. In optical discs, DVD (4.7 then 8.5 GB) then the Blu - ray disc (25 and 50 GB) have replaced the CD and this type of media tends to disappear for the benefit of the flash memory or external hard drives.

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Sans Digital TowerRAID TR5UT+B - 5 Bay USB 3.0/eSATA Hardware RAID 5 Tower with 6G PCIe 2.0 HBA (Black)

The TowerRAID TR5UT+B is a 5-bay hardware RAID 5 storage tower that utilizes high performance USB 3.0 and eSATA interfaces to provide over 200MB/s in performance. The included USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with widely available USB 2.0 ports, which is a convenient feature when both USB 3.0 and eSATA connections are unavailable. With built-in RAID 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 with hot-spare and JBOD, the TR5UT+B provides hardware RAID redundancy protection against hard drive failures. A brand new RAID mode, CLONE or N-Way Mirror, is also introduced to replicate the saved data throughout each installed hard drive. The RAID engine is embedded within the enclosure and performs all RAID parity calculation to reduce CPU utilization from the host PC. RAID controller cards are unnecessary. To satisfy the need for performance demanding applications, the unit is bundled with a 2-port PCIe 2.0 x1 eSATA controller card with SATA 6.0 Gbps (6G) support (RR622 controller card). PCIe 2.0 is capable of providing twice the bandwidth of PCIe 1.0, allowing over 200MB/s in performance. The unit is also backward compatible with PCIe 1.0 slots to provide eSATA connectivity for computers that do not have built-in eSATA ports. Designed with easy installation in mind, the TR5UT+B allows effortless installation by simply inserting the hard drive tray (with the hard drives installed) after opening the attractive ventilating door. The TR5UT+B is the ultimate RAID storage for all storage needs.

Price: $349.00

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Western Digital My Book Essential 3 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive

Put your digital life on the sleek, high capacity My Book Essential external hard drive. With WD quality and USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 connectivity, this drive is designed for today with tomorrow in mind. Visual backup software and password protection with hardware encryption ensure your data is protected. Lightweight and easy to carry, this drive is ideal for fast storage to go.

Price: $249.99

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Sans Digital TowerRAID TR5UT+ - 5 Bay USB 3.0/eSATA Hardware RAID 5 Tower with 6G PCIe 2.0 HBA (Silver)

The TowerRAID TR5UT+ is a 5-bay hardware RAID 5 storage tower that utilizes high performance USB 3.0 and eSATA interfaces to provide over 200MB/s in performance. The included USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with widely available USB 2.0 ports, which is a convenient feature when both USB 3.0 and eSATA connections are unavailable. With built-in RAID 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 with hot-spare and JBOD, the TR5UT+ provides hardware RAID redundancy protection against hard drive failures. A brand new RAID mode, CLONE or N-Way Mirror, is also introduced to replicate the saved data throughout each installed hard drive. The RAID engine is embedded within the enclosure and performs all RAID parity calculation to reduce CPU utilization from the host PC. RAID controller cards are unnecessary. To satisfy the need for performance demanding applications, the unit is bundled with a 2-port PCIe 2.0 x1 eSATA controller card with SATA 6.0 Gbps (6G) support (RR622 controller card). PCIe 2.0 is capable of providing twice the bandwidth of PCIe 1.0, allowing over 200MB/s in performance. The unit is also backward compatible with PCIe 1.0 slots to provide eSATA connectivity for computers that do not have built-in eSATA ports. Designed with easy installation in mind, the TR5UT+ allows effortless installation by simply inserting the hard drive tray (with the hard drives installed) after opening the attractive ventilating door. The TR5UT+ is the ultimate RAID storage for all storage needs.

Price: $349.00

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Sans Digital TowerRAID TR4UT+B - 4 Bay USB 3.0/eSATA Hardware RAID 5 Tower with 6G PCIe 2.0 HBA (Black)

The TowerRAID TR4UT+B is a 4-bay hardware RAID 5 storage tower that utilizes high performance USB 3.0 and eSATA interfaces to provide over 200MB/s in performance. The included USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with widely available USB 2.0 ports, which is a convenient feature when both USB 3.0 and eSATA connections are unavailable. With built-in RAID 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 with hot-spare and JBOD, the TR4UT+B provides hardware RAID redundancy protection against hard drive failures. A brand new RAID mode, CLONE or N-Way Mirror, is also introduced to replicate the saved data throughout each installed hard drive. The RAID engine is embedded within the enclosure and performs all RAID parity calculation to reduce CPU utilization from the host PC. RAID controller cards are unnecessary. To satisfy the need for performance demanding applications, the unit is bundled with a 2-port PCIe 2.0 x1 eSATA controller card with SATA 6.0 Gbps (6G) support (RR622 controller card). PCIe 2.0 is capable of providing twice the bandwidth of PCIe 1.0, allowing over 200MB/s in performance. The unit is also backward compatible with PCIe 1.0 slots to provide eSATA connectivity for computers that do not have built-in eSATA ports. The TR4UT+B is the ultimate RAID storage for all storage needs.

Price: $289.00

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Sans Digital TowerRAID 5-Bay USB 3.0/eSATA Hardware RAID 5 Tower with 6G PCIe 2.0 Host Bus Adapter TR5UTP (Silver)

The TowerRAID TR5UTP is a 5-bay hardware RAID 5 storage tower that utilizes high performance USB 3.0 and eSATA interfaces to provide over 200MB/s in performance. The included USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with widely available USB 2.0 ports, which is a convenient feature when both USB 3.0 and eSATA connections are unavailable. With built-in RAID 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 with hot-spare and JBOD, the TR5UTP provides hardware RAID redundancy protection against hard drive failures. A brand new RAID mode, CLONE or N-Way Mirror, is also introduced to replicate the saved data throughout each installed hard drive. The RAID engine is embedded within the enclosure and performs all RAID parity calculation to reduce CPU utilization from the host PC. RAID controller cards are unnecessary. To satisfy the need for performance demanding applications, the unit is bundled with a 2-port PCIe 2.0 x1 eSATA controller card with SATA 6.0 Gbps (6G) support (RR622 controller card). PCIe 2.0 is capable of providing twice the bandwidth of PCIe 1.0, allowing over 200MB/s in performance. The unit is also backward compatible with PCIe 1.0 slots to provide eSATA connectivity for computers that do not have built-in eSATA ports. Designed with easy installation in mind, the TR5UT-BP allows effortless installation by simply inserting the hard drive tray (with the hard drives installed) after opening the attractive ventilating door. The TR5UTP is the ultimate RAID storage for all storage needs.

Price: $356.08

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Sans Digital TowerRAID TR5UT+B - 5 Bay USB 3.0/eSATA Hardware RAID 5 Tower with 6G PCIe 2.0 HBA (Black)

The TowerRAID TR5UT+B is a 5-bay hardware RAID 5 storage tower that utilizes high performance USB 3.0 and eSATA interfaces to provide over 200MB/s in performance. The included USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with widely available USB 2.0 ports, which is a convenient feature when both USB 3.0 and eSATA connections are unavailable. With built-in RAID 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 with hot-spare and JBOD, the TR5UT+B provides hardware RAID redundancy protection against hard drive failures. A brand new RAID mode, CLONE or N-Way Mirror, is also introduced to replicate the saved data throughout each installed hard drive. The RAID engine is embedded within the enclosure and performs all RAID parity calculation to reduce CPU utilization from the host PC. RAID controller cards are unnecessary. To satisfy the need for performance demanding applications, the unit is bundled with a 2-port PCIe 2.0 x1 eSATA controller card with SATA 6.0 Gbps (6G) support (RR622 controller card). PCIe 2.0 is capable of providing twice the bandwidth of PCIe 1.0, allowing over 200MB/s in performance. The unit is also backward compatible with PCIe 1.0 slots to provide eSATA connectivity for computers that do not have built-in eSATA ports. Designed with easy installation in mind, the TR5UT+B allows effortless installation by simply inserting the hard drive tray (with the hard drives installed) after opening the attractive ventilating door. The TR5UT+B is the ultimate RAID storage for all storage needs.

Price: $349.00

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