With room for 5 hard drives or SSDs, the new Addonics Compact RAID is a small 4 inch cube and sells for $149. The Compact RAID is OS independent and comes with eSATA and can “deliver screaming throughput up to 300 Mbytes/sec”. The unit is available now. The unit can be set up in various more »

The Addonics 5-port Hardware Port Multiplier (“HPM”) is here to let you hook up lots of SATA devices to your computer. There are two versions. The HPM-XA System Version that fits inside your computer where a PCI slot would be where it gives you 5 internal ports – you hook up your SATA controller to the HPM-XA and you’ve got 5 ports ready. The other is the 5 Port HPM-XA Enclosure Version which fits into multi-bay enclosures (which Addonics also sells). This is a good way to reuse an older machines to create a giant server for all your videos, photos, and music. Each version of the HPM costs $99.

As Blu-ray gains in market share, it appears we’re in sort of a race to put out products that use the format the same way we use DVDs. We’ve already seen HDTVs with Blu-ray drives built-in and even a portable Blu-ray player. There are a select few computers that have been using Blu-ray drives for more »