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Western Digital announced its new My Passport line of external hard drives small, lightweight and portable, capable of uniting the advantages of a hard drive with a Pendrive. Thanks to the capacity of 500 GB, can we have in the palm of your hand all our documents and files without the need for an electrical source, thanks to power via USB (in the gallery of images you can see the amount of pendrives, 8 GB needed for that has the same capacity of the My Passport).

In addition to storage capacity, the new My Passport offers a range of services via software, including automatic backup, able to synchronize our data without having realized, and the 128-bit encryption, to keep them safe in case of theft or loss.

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Handheld unveils its new Tablet PC rugged called Algiz 10. Algiz 10 has a rate of protection against dust and water equal to 54 (IP54) and respects the rigorous standards military MIL-STD-810F. E ‘equipped with an Intel Core Duo Yonah ULV at 1.2GHz, optional memory (1 or 2GB), optional storage (hard disk with a capacity of 80GB or 32GB hard by SSD), LCD touch screen by 10.4 inches with XGA resolution (1024 × 768) and anti-reflectio Technology

About connectivity: Wi-Fi a / b / g, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, GPRS / EDGE / UMTS (optional), GPS, PCMCIA II, CF Type II, Gigabit Ethernet and 2 USB 2.0 ports. Pesa 2.2Kg and uses a battery to 9 cells that ensures autonomy declared to 6-7 hours on operating system Windows XP Tablet PC.

Handheld Algiz 10 will be available by the end of August, no information on price.

Do you think hard disk resistant to water and fire is an exaggeration? Sentry Safe think no, perhaps to meet even that segment of the market of drug traffickers, or entrepreneurs malavitosi the target of criminal underworld that risk often fire ol’allagamento home and offices.

Excesses aside, the hard disk offers a storage space of 250 GB-proof natural events, such as sudden a flood or a small fire. The drive is tested to resist fire for 30 minutes at 850 degrees Celsius and 24 hours immersion complete, all this for $ 379, about 240 €.

The Mitron, one of the most important South Korean companies that produce memories SSD, today presented a new generation of controllers to assemble on solid-state memories. It will be able to travel at a speed of 260MB / s, because equipped with a system of eight channels (compared to four today). Having said so this detail seems not indicative enough, however paraganoarlo to 120/130 MB / s current version to hear the difference immediately. According to the company this control is not only twice faster than the present generation, but is also the fastest ever put up for sale.

Mitron has in mind to launch three new products based on this technology: the Mtron SSD Express Card, Mini PCI-E Card for mobile devices and Mtron XTM 7500 SSD for the highly specialized fields such as aviation, the medical industry and so forth. In the first two cases the maximum speed read / write will attest on 110/65 MB / s (and will be equipped with ad hoc software installation and boot), while the last will have a capacity of 128GB and will be guaranteed with temperature ranges from -45 ° C to +90 ° C.

The SSD will be on sale starting in August next year, but for the whole line will have to wait until the beginning of 2009.