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Links International has added two new mSATA SSDs from Plextor to its product page, the 64GB PX-64M5M and 128GB PX-128M5M. These ultra-compact SSDs are equipped with 19nm MLC NAND Flash memory chips, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, a Marvell 88SS9187 controller, a MTBF of 2.4 million hours, TRIM support and capable of delivering read/write speeds of up to 540/160 MB/s (64GB Model) and 540/320 MB/s (128GB Model), respectively. The 64GB and 128GB models will go on sale from February 9th for 8,180 Yen (about $87) and 12,480 Yen (about $133), respectively. [Product Page]

Coming in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB sizes, the Slim S50 is Silicon Power’s newest line of SSDs for the mass market. These slim 2.5-inch SSDs (7mm thick) are equipped with a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, TRIM support, NCQ and RAID ready and can deliver read and write speeds of up to 530MB/s and 200MB/s, respectively. Unfortunately, there’s no word on pricing yet. [Silicon Power]

Looking to save some coin on your tech purchases? Of course you are! In this round-up, we’ll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You’ll want to act fast, though, as many of these offerings won’t stick around long.

If the mid-week blues are too much for you to bear, shelling out a few bones on a new gadget or two may just liven up those spirits. A 60-inch Panasonic Viera 3D HD display tops the list — if you weren’t enticed to jump at Monday’s offer — and a 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD makes the cut as well. Head past the break for the full list, but don’t delay or these discounted links could be gone for good.

Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment, Peripherals, Tablets, Storage

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High-rolling (or just highly nerdy) home theater PC setups often have network-attached storage to hold the reams of video that invariably won’t fit on the PC itself. QNAP wonders why we don’t just cut to the chase — both of its TS-x69L and TS-x69 Pro entries in the Turbo NAS range support XBMC’s home theater software out of the gate, letting either NAS serve as the front-end as long as they’re hooked up through HDMI. They won’t be the most powerful when they’re powered by dual-core, 2.13GHz Atom chips; that might be forgiven when there’s space for as many as eight hard drives shareable across the entire home. The lineups start at $479 for empty two-bay editions and scale up to $1,099 for eight. Not cheap, we know, but they may be relative bargains for any movie-watchers looking to simplify the living room.

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Storage, HD

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Bitcasa made some serious waves when it hit the scene in December, offering bottomless cloud storage for $10 per-month or $99 for a full year. The service is now leaving beta, with the promised Mac and iOS apps in tow. And, just as icing on the cake, a Linux client is also on the way (and already available in alpha form). While going gold isn’t going to change a lot about Bitcasa in the short term, at least the company knows how to celebrate right — with steep discounts! Sign up for the service during the month of February and you’ll get a full year of Infinite Drive for $60 $69. You can sign up at the source and peruse the PR after the break. We’re already busy backing up our My Bloody Valentine bootlegs.

Update: As some of you have noticed, the price being advertised on the Bitcasa site is $69 for the year, not $59 as the press release states. We’ve updated the post to reflect the advertised cost and asked for a clarification.

Filed under: Storage, Internet

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Source: Bitcasa