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A-DATA SH93 Waterproof, Shockproof External Harddrive

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Have you been looking for an external hard drive that can take the abuse like a Panasonic Toughbook? The A-DATA SH93 is what you need. The claims for this drive are waterproof and shockproof. While we don’t recommend taking it diving with you or launching it out of a potato gun, it should better survive daily wear and tear that laptops normally have to deal with.
This is a great drive to throw in your laptop bag. It has a rubberized case to keep it and other things from getting dinged up. There is only one short USB (2.0) cable you have to keep up with and it wraps around the drive when not in use. This would be great for students, road warriors, or anyone who is always on the go with their equipment.

Priced at reasonable $114 with a 500GB drive, you can get in red, yellow or custom color (You provide the paint).

via tweaktown

Buy: A-DATA SH93 500 GB

Crucial M225 Solid-State Drive

Friday, November 20th, 2009


While SATA drives keep getting bigger and bigger, they aren’t booting your PC any faster. What you need is a Solid-State drive to run your operating system on and keep your 1TB SATA drives for all of your data.

Crucial has recently introduced this SSD and its a speed demon. Performing at 250MB/s Read and 200MB/s Write, this will have Windows loaded in a snap! Although you don’t need 256GB for just the OS, you’ll have plenty of space left over to your frequently accessed data.

“Bigger and Faster” technology always seems to cost more and this is the case with this drive. If you want the 256GB version this price is around $725. The 64GB version, which will still easily hold your OS, is a more reasonable $240.

via thinkcomputers

Buy: Crucial M225 Series 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive 256GB
Crucial M225 Series 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive 128GB
Crucial M225 Series 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive 64GB

Cooler Master Sentinel Advance Gaming Mouse

Friday, November 13th, 2009


I’ve found the perfect thing to go with the Extreme Mouse pad, an extreme Gaming Mouse! The Sentinel Advance gaming mouse has a 5600 DPI twin laser, rapid fire mode, and internal memory. Does your stock mouse have that? I think not. This cool looking mouse is fully programmable and customizable. Reasonably priced at around $50, this should help give you the gaming edge.

via coolermaster

Buy: CM Storm Sentinel Advance 5600 DPI Twin Laser Engine Pro Gaming Mouse

Matrox M9188 video card for 8 screens!

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Time to start your Xmas list. Add this to the top of the list and 7 LCD screens under that. Matrox has introduced a new graphics card with 8 outputs. You can also add a second card for a total of 16 screens. According to my calculations, 16 – 20″ (wide version) lcd’s would make a 10 foot wide by 6 foot tall screen.

“The M9188 is designed specifically for professional monitoring environments that require visualization of large amounts of data at once to enhance mission-critical decision making,” says Ron Berty, Business Development Manager, Matrox Graphics. “The expansive multi-monitor configuration allows system operators to accurately manage energy grids or train dispatch applications, while ensuring maximum performance across all displays.”

What about Warcraft guild management? Wouldn’t that rank of there with train dispatch and energy grids? This card comes with 2 GB of memory and can either stretch a single desktop or have independent desktops among multiple screens.

This awesome card comes with an awesome price. You will pay $1995 for this card and then another $800 to get 7 more LCD screens. That’s not including the price of an electrician to run more circuits into your room to support all of this.

via guru3d

CRU DataPort SecureDock

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009


Here’s a good solution to preserving your sensitive data whether it’s business secrets, downloaded music, or just plain porn. This can be configured as either an internal or external removable drive. While the enclosure makes it physically challenging to get to the drive, the AES 128 encryption makes it almost impossible for the wrong person to get your data. The encryption key is not stored with the unit so the data is protected if the drive is lost or stolen. Prices range from $240 with no drive up to $600 with a 2tb drive.

via the gadgeteer

Seagate Barracuda XT SATA – bigger and faster

Friday, November 6th, 2009


Is your 1TB drive filling up with movies, pictures and music (obtained legally of course)? For all of you data whores, this is the drive for you. Not only is it 2TB, but it will have a data transfer rate of 6Gbps. It utilizes the newest version of SATA (3, 3.0, III???) For the ones that need it now, prices are around $340.

via hardcoreware

Buy: Seagate Barracuda XT 2 TB SATA 6 GB/s 64MB Cache Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST32000641AS

ASUS P7P55D-E Premium Motherboard

Friday, October 30th, 2009


You think your motherboard looks cool? You obviously haven’t seen this one yet. This is a new motherboard by ASUS that looks really cool and, as a side note, offers crazy fast data transfer speed with USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s transfer speeds. This will make transferring all of those movies you “legally” downloaded easier.

Via SlipperyBrick

Ultra X4 1050W Power Supply

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

We need more power Scotty! Is your 400 watt power supply struggling to keep up? Not enough connections to power all your gadgets? The Ultra X4 1050W power supply should end all of your problems. This has enough connectors and wattage to power everything you can throw at it. Priced around $230, this power supply should keep your computer humming and your room toasty in the coming winter months.

Via OverClockersClub

Buy:  X4 Series 1050W Atx Ps