Posted by Ub3rG33k on Jan 15, 2009 in
Tech 
I’ve added to my toy collection, I’ve bought (as the title would suggest) a new NAS Drive.
I’ve has for the pass couple of years a 500Gb Western Digital MyBookWorld, which as ….well ok, well, slow, unstable, and over heats all the time.
I had quite a manual process to back this up too, I had to keep a machine on all the time, to run a scheduled task, to sync all the contents on the NAS drive to an external 500Gb hard drive, this was effective, however kind of overkill for a simple backup solution.
btw, the reason I’m so paranoid about backup, is a new firmware came out for the NAS drive, so I thought “OOOO, possible speed increase”, so upgraded, and it fell over Grrrrrr !, you can only imagine the paid and suffering I went though to a retrieve the content from the drive, the rebuild the linux partitions….not something I really want go through again.
Anyway, back to the Acer NAS drive, this drive is quick !, and I mean really quick !! (ok, getting around 18Mb /sec transfer speed, so about 3 times faster that the MyBookWorld)
It’s got an Itunes and Media server which supports Vob files (a god send for me streaming HD content to my PS3.
Currently running in Raid 5 (as raid 10 (0+1) isn’t available, so getting high read speeds, ok’ish write speeds, and 1.5TB of parity backup storage 
It does come with Wireless access too, however this is switched off as it’s connected to my Gigabit network.
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4 x Serial ATA Hard Drives |
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10/100/1000 Ethernet, auto MDI/MDIX |
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MP3, WAV/PCM, WMA, AC3/AAC, OGG, AIF/AIFF |
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VOB, AVI, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV9 |
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19 V 150 W external power adapter |
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Dimensions
Posted by Ub3rG33k on Jan 3, 2009 in
PSP 
Got one of these puppies for Christmas, and until today I didn’t have anything to test it with. While I was in Game today, I stumbled across Family Guy: Blue Harvest for only £4.99 ! Bargin I know !!
So I’ve just fired it up, and OMG ! this thing sound fantastic !, comes with a little carrying case which holds the cables and dock.
The PSP sits good as well as charges as it docs.
Full spec below
Product Information
A ‘mini theatre’ to play movies or music. This SoundStation for PSP Slim & Lite produces astounding sound using a high class amplifier, deep bass sub-woofer and 3D surround-sound circuitry to pack a punch more powerful than its compact size suggests. Includes mains adaptor, carry-case and line-in cable
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2.1 Sub-woofer Speaker System
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12 Watts RMS
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Operates from AC Adaptor (included) or Batteries 4xAA (not included)
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Internal 3D surround sound processor
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Docking station for PSP re-charging
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Blue soft-light illumination
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3.5mm Stereo line-in for playing other audio devices like MP3, MD, CD player. etc
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Dimensions: 104 x 278 x 38mm (H x W x D)
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Weight – 550g
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3.5mm Stereo Line-in (Cable provided) to allow gameplay, or play back of other audio devices including MP3, CD player, MiniDisc etc.
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Carry Case for Sound System & PSP console.
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1 x 2.5″ Sub Woofer 4ohm = 6 Watts RMS
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2 x 30mm full range 4ohm Neodymium aluminum speaker cones = 6 Watts RMS
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PSP Slim & Lite not included
If you’ve got a PSP – 2000 slim, and have lots of AVI’s, MP3′s or UMD disks, looking for a dock, or just looking for some external speaks for your mp3 player, I’d highly recommend this
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