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Friday, November 21, 2008

New Multi-Drive HDD Enclosure with RAID

We've added a new 4 Drive eSATA external hdd enclosure (SAT3540ER) to our hard drive enclosure line, that delivers impressive storage capacity, hard drive access (and interchangeability), as well as data transfer rates and flexible RAID configurations. Up to four drives can be installed in the enclosure, which supports JBOD, RAID 0 (Striping), RAID 1 (Mirroring), RAID 0+1 and Spanning (Concatentation).

Another key feature of the new external hard drive enclosure is that it offers a built-in 80mm fan, that helps prevent the installed drives from overheating - this is especially important with large capacity (1TB+) hard drives, as over-heating could shorten the drive lifespan.

Posted by Ken @ 5:30 PM

Monday, November 17, 2008

USB Extension Cable Improves Accessibility

Our new USB Extension Cable (USBEXTAA5DSK) connects to a USB port on your computer and extends the USB port to a more convenient location up to 5' away from the original USB port.

This product is especially convenient if the front panel USB ports on the computer you are using are in use, because it allows you to reposition a rear panel USB port to a more convenient location. It really comes in handy when connecting MP3 players, USB thumb drives and other USB based external storage.

Posted by Ken @ 1:50 PM

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

StarTech.com Partsapalooza II!

Today marked our second PARTSAPOLOOZA - a tabletop show and training event for the StarTech.com team. Similar to the first PARTSAPALOOZA, the goal of the event was to educate StarTech.com employees on the newest additions to our product lineup so they can better help our customers complete their solutions using the latest technologies.

Once again, our Product Management team did a super job with product demonstrations and explanations of how our products integrate into customer solutions.

Here are a few of the products that debuted in this installment of PARTSAPOLOOZA:

Retractable USB Cable - High Speed A to B M/M (USBRETAB4)
Retractable USB Cable - High Speed A to MiniB M/M (USBRETAMB4)
Retractable Ethernet Modem Combo Cable 8 ft (RJ45RET8)
Car Charger USB Retractable Cable (USBAFRETCAR)
USB DVI VGA External Multi Monitor Video Adapter (USB2DVIE)
1-Port Server Remote Control KVM over IP w/Virtual Media (SV1107IPEXT)
2 Port USB DVI Cable KVM Switch with Audio (SV215MICDVIA)
2 Port USB VGA Cable KVM Switch with Audio (SV215MICUSBA)
1 Port PCI Express RS232 Serial Adapter Card with 16550 UART (PEX1S552)
1 Port PCI Express RS232 Serial Adapter Card with 16950 UART (PEX1S952)

Posted by Paul @ 6:00 PM

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

New eSATA/USB SATA HD Docking Station!

Our new eSATA/USB 2.0 SATA HD Docking Station allows you to save valuable desk space by not having to mount the hard drive!

This is the perfect solution for data recovery, drive imaging, and testing centers, or any environment that requires fast access to uninstalled drives or massive amounts of archived data. The SATADOCKU2E supports plug and play installation on most operating systems and provides data transfer speeds of up to 3 Gbps- which is a definite time-saver when you are making important data dumps/backups.

Posted by Paul @ 11:36 AM

Thursday, November 06, 2008

DVI EDID Capture Box Helps Optimize Video Quality

We added a DVI EDID Capture/Detector Box (DVIEDIDDET) to our Converge A/V product lineup recently, which provides users with a way to capture and retain EDID information that could potentially be lost if the display is disconnected and reconnected, or is connected using a video extension system.

By connecting this device (DVIEDIDDET) to a monitor, it is able to “memorize” the EDID information, and can then be connected to the video signal source (video card / graphics adapter), prompting it (the video source) to output the same image even if it is unable to communicate with the intended display.

Since most video extender systems don’t offer EDID communication between the signal source and a remote display, the DVI EDID Capture / Detector Device (DVIEDIDDET) is a perfect workaround for ensuring the optimum signal is provided to the display, regardless of whether or not there is a direct connection between the source and the display.

Posted by Paul @ 3:00 PM

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

New Single Chip I/O Cards: Update

In addition to the new PCI Express I/O Adapter Cards I mentioned last Thursday, we also added an ExpressCard SATA Drive Controller Card to our product list.

The 2 Port eSATA ExpressCard Drive Controller Card (ECESATA22) provides laptop users with 2 eSATA (external SATA) ports, and port multiplier capability, which allows two SATA hard drives to be connected through a single eSATA connection as opposed to a separate eSATA connection for each.

Posted by Ken @ 4:18 PM

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