Posted on 18 December 2005 by admin

The Centrix MVP-150 is an upgrade to the MVP-100 we took a look at earlier this year. Sitec System, the Korean company which makes it, calls it the Digital Dream. Maybe they call it that because it isn’t just a media player. It has a GPS module as well.
It has a 4-inch TFT-LCD with touch screen for viewing. As you would expect you can view movies, play music, or view text and graphic files. Those files can be stored on the 20GB HDD, or you can use the SD card expansion slot. All the usual formats are supported. It all runs on a Windows CE platform.
The unit comes preloaded with several games. It has a voice recorder function and TV out. The buttons on the front of the unit are well laid out to make accessing everything simple. All of this comes in a fairly small package. It measures 132 x 71 x 24 mm and weighs 280 grams. It also looks like they took our advice and removed the digital camera.
This is due out in Korea some time this month. No word yet on price or if we will see it outside of Korea any time soon.
From Mobilemag
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Posted on 18 December 2005 by admin

Iomega International S.A has introduced the Iomega Desktop Hard Drive Tera Series, a compact four-drive enclosure with 1 terabyte (TB) of capacity.
Designed for creative services professionals and others who require fast access to data, the Iomega 1TB drive delivers high capacity with a complete backup and disaster recovery solution.
The new Iomega Tera Series connects to the host PC through FireWire 800 or USB 2.0 (backwards compatible with USB 1.1) and is compatible with FireWire 400 through an adapter which is included in the box.
The unit measures 318mm x 163mm x 203mm (L x W x H), and is designed to take up little space on the desktop.
It comes with four 250GB SATA drives, that can be easily removed and replaced, each running at 7200 RPM with 8MB cache for high performance, configurable as RAID 0 (striped).
Users who want the maximum performance possible can configure the 1TB drive for data striping across four high-capacity SATA disks (RAID 0), providing virtually instant access to data. The new drive also features two pass through FireWire 800 ports and a USB 2.0 expansion port, giving users the flexibility of attaching an additional USB 2.0 hard drive or other peripheral.
“An increasing number of today’s digital home computer users and small businesses have put together small networks that are literally running out of space to back up their daily files or work on data-intensive projects,†said Walter Grinberg, product manager Iomega International. “The 1TB drive gives them an ocean of available space for projects and day-to-day backup, and it also gives them easy disaster recovery through full disk imaging.â€
Users of the new 1TB Iomega Desktop Hard Drive can store up to 18,500 hours of music, 4,000,000 photos, or 1,500 hours of video on a single Iomega Tera series device.
For Windows users, Iomega includes Iomega Automatic Backup Pro software for backup and disaster recovery for critical data. IAB Pro software backs up files on a scheduled or continuous basis. It also gives users professional-level disaster recovery from within Windows, eliminating the need to boot to DOS. Data security is further enhanced with IAB Pro software’s AES file encryption, its ability to back up multiple file revisions, and its easy configuration of scheduled backups if preferred. And with 2.6:1 file compression, IAB Pro can make each megabyte of storage capacity go further.
The Iomega Desktop Hard Drive is compatible with Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional. It is also compatible with Mac OS 10.1 or higher on Mac G3 (blue and white G3 models only), Mac G4 or iMac with built-in USB or FireWire connection.
The new Tera Series is available for EUR 999.
From Geekzone.co.nz. Picture from Engadget.