You can never have enough storage these days and with more music and videos being downloaded and stored on PCs, it makes sense to think ahead.

Western Digital has upgraded its My Book Pro, a small external hard disk drive with 500GB of space, to the 1TB (terabyte) My Book Pro Edition II. The casing has obviously gotten a bit bigger thanks to the two internal 500GB drives but for 1TB of storage, you are still talking about a very small device (26ins square).

This could be a real hit for that geek in your life this Christmas. The drive supports RAID technology which means you can store files across the whole 1TB or change the setting to RAID 1 so that half the drive mirrors your data in real-time for extra security if one drive happens to fail.

It has three connectivity options: FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 and will cost around £300. Full details here.

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Posted by Martin Lynch on October 4, 2006 in Active Home, Books, Film, Games, Music, Television, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Lord of the Rings is not the smallest book in the world to have to lug around on holiday and with the Sony Portable Reader set to launch next month, you may not have too anymore.

Picture being able to carry around up to 80 books in one slim, electronic reader that is just half an inch thick and weighs 9oz. The reader is built using E-Ink Electronic Paper and spots a 6in screen. Although it only has 64Mb of memory, that’s enough for 80 books but there is a slot for both SD Memory cards and Memory Stick media whichmeans this number can be greatly increased.

Formats supported include BBeB Book, Adobe PDF, TXT, RTF, Microsoft Word, BBeB Book (Marlin) MP3, AAC7, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BM.

The rechargeable lithium-ion battery is good enough for 7,500 page-turns and can be juiced up again in four hours. It will cost around £200. More

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Posted by Martin Lynch on September 27, 2006 in Active Home, Books, Music, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (1)