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 »

Japanese manufacturer Century has recently unveiled the EX35EU2R RAID 0/1/3/5/10 system which allows you to connect up to five 3.5” SATA hard drives, each with a maximum of 2TB. That gives you a grand total of 10TB, and you’ll never have to worry about storage space again. It comes with USB 2.0 and eSata connectivity. more »

Drobo, the device that lets you create a giant hard drive from your SATA drives, has come out with a giant new addition. Called “Drobo Pro,” it lets you install up to eight hard drives and supports up to 16TB of space. Like the latest Drobo, the Pro has USB and Firewire 800 connections, but more »

You want massive storage capacity combined with max data security? Then you definitely want to check out the latest in the line of tech by LaCie, the Hard Disk MAX. Just introduced yesterday, the MAX has a whopping 2TB of storage capacity, and implements a built in RAID 0 and RAID 1 functionality. LaCie will, more »

51 booths during the 2008 CeBIT annual trade show were raided by German police due to breaches of patents with the MP3 file format. Various models of cellphones, mobile music players, satellite navigation devices and even screens were confiscated following the raid.

The patent complaints that started it all came from an Italian firm called Sisvel, who filed the said complaints on behalf of big companies including Philips, one of the largest electronic companies in the world, who through an agreement is granted the right to demand a licensing fee for consumer electronics devices sold in Europe.