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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.

Does the start of another week have you feelin’ a bit down? Perhaps we can help. On today’s list of discounted tech, a Panasonic Viera plasma 3D HDTV and Lumix DMC-GF5 both grab a spot alongside a 17-inch Lenovo notebook, 32GB memory card and a 24-inch ASUS display. Take a gander past the break for all the crucial details, but you’ll want to act fast as these links aren’t likely to offer their wares for long.

This deal is available from Abe’s of Maine.

Grab one of these from Newegg.

Snag this offer from Amazon.

This offer is available from Newegg.

This deal is available over at Amazon. Use the rebate form found here.

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After briefly popping up at CES, Sony’s Personal Content Station (aka the “LLS-201”) has just been pegged with an April 30th release date in Japan — that’s a good month before it’s set to reach the States. The $299, 1TB drive uses NFC for quick pairing with Android phones and tablets, followed by an app for managing the actual backups over WiFi. If you’re using a non-NFC device like an iPhone or a Sony WiFi camera, then worry not — it’s possible to achieve the same results using WiFi alone, and you can also use an SD card or USB to get data across. Other notables include a built-in video transcoder that automatically creates mobile-friendly MP4 versions from stored AVCHD files, plus an HDMI port for playback on a TV. Finally, the bowl-shaped device comes with a “ceramic-style” finish to complement your mantelpiece, from where it can frown down upon cheaper, fatter alternatives like Toshiba’s Canvio Personal Cloud. Lovers of Japanese and jazz piano will find a nice little promo video after the break.

Filed under: Storage, Mobile

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Source: Sony (Japanese), Sony product page

If you’re a computer user that builds your own machines somewhere around your house, you have old hard drives that you didn’t want to throw away, but you don’t use. I think I have four or five around my house sitting there collecting dust. They are still full of data and on occasion, I get curious about what’s on the drive and go through the hassle of plugging them into my computer to see.

If you have any 2.5-inch SATA hard drives or SSDs laying around your home that you would like to get some use out of, Satechi has a new aluminum external hard drive enclosure that works with both USB 3.0 and eSATA ports. The enclosure will allow you to turn those forlorn hard drives that have been relegated to a desk drawer into external storage.

If you have a small SSD lying around, the combination of a speedy SSD and fast USB 3.0 connectivity could make for a very fast portable external hard drive. The enclosure works for 2.5-inch SSDs or hard drives of 9.5 mm or 12.5 mm thickness. The enclosure gets power to operate through a USB cable and needs no external power adapter.

The aluminum enclosure measures 5.3 x 0.6 x 3.5-inches and weighs 6.8 ounces. If this sounds like something you need, you can order the enclosure right now for $39.99. The company also has a matching memory card reader available for $29.99. Both of these products will look perfect beside your iMac or MacBook.

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Fusion-io has made a name for its Fusion ioDrive solid-state drives by selling them to the largest of enterprises — the sort that crave thousands of servers. Not everyone wants that level of computing muscle, though, which is why the pro-grade storage firm is now selling the Fusion ioScale to a much wider audience. Cloud service hosts and other, smaller companies just have to buy a (relatively) paltry 100 or more of the PCI Express-based drives, which include both slim 1.6TB and full-size, 3.2TB versions. Neither will be cheap for datacenters when prices start at $3.89 per gigabyte, although Fusion-io is vowing better deals for those buying in buik. We also suspect that the time saved by moving to fast flash storage could be worthwhile in itself.

Continue reading Fusion-io brings Fusion ioScale SSD to small, speedy server clusters

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It’s been relatively easy for awhile to get a solid-state drive with 2TB or more of storage — if you’ve been willing to buy a large PCI Express card, that is. Foremay is bringing that kind of capacity to a more portable form. It claims that both its TC166 (for end users) and SC199 (industrial) drives are the first to stuff 2TB of flash memory into a 2.5-inch SATA enclosure. The 9.5mm thickness should let them fit into many laptop hard drive bays and space-sensitive machinery without having to give up all those valuable extra bytes. Before reaching for a credit card, however, we’d warn that there aren’t many details so far — we don’t know the performance, or how much it costs to buy either model. We’ve reached out and will get back if there’s firmer details, but at least corporate customers who want speed and ample storage in one drive will be glad to hear that Foremay’s new SSDs are already in mass production.

Continue reading Foremay claims to have the first 2TB, 2.5-inch SSDs

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Source: Foremay (1), (2)