MyCE News, Articles & Reviews

SanDisk Extreme 120GB SSD Review - Performance at a bargain price

Fri, 25 May 2012 22:33:00 Europe/Amsterdam

We take a look at the SanDisk Extreme 120GB SSD - Performance at a bargain price. Can this SandForce SF-2281 based SSD with toggle mode NAND compete with state of the art offerings from other SSD...

US BitTorrent traffic well down, but booming everywhere else

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:24:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Despite the Entertainment industry's claims that you cannot compete with free, the growth of legal movie on demand services such as Netflix appears to be killing off BitTorrent's Internet share in...

Dutch court ruled: ISP's also required to block additional Piratebay IP

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:11:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Zalman unveils speedy SLC NAND based USB3 flash drives

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:37:00 Europe/Amsterdam

The Korean company Zalman, well known for its cooling products and cases, has announced its new line up of USB 3.0 flash drives, claiming to deliver up to 155 MB/s read and 135 MB/s write, faster...

ADATA launches Premier Pro UHS-1 SDHC & SDXC cards

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:15:00 Europe/Amsterdam

ADATA, a company well known for NAND flash memory products and DRAM modules has announced its new Premier Pro range of SDHC and SDXC memory cards featuring the Ultra-High Speed class rating (UHS-I). ...

FBI to start special service to spy on online communication

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:11:00 Europe/Amsterdam

LG N2A2 NAS review

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:28:00 Europe/Amsterdam

The market for Network Attached Storage devices (NAS) is continuously growing over the last years. There are more and more companies entering the market with their NAS products. This time we are...

Seagate plan to acquire LaCie

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:01:00 Europe/Amsterdam

World's biggest harddisk manufacturer Seagate want to extend their market share and plan to acquire a controlling interest in LaCie, a French manufacturer of consumer products.

RunCore Xapear SSD features RFID security & SMS deletion

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:55:00 Europe/Amsterdam

This SSD connects by USB 2.0 and is configured into two partitions, one public and one hidden. The public partition appears upon plugging in the SSD, while the private partition only appears after...

Why not? PNY announces USB drive with whistle

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:48:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Team Group announces SATA II SSD

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:31:00 Europe/Amsterdam

KINGMAX launches ED-07 range of USB3 fast flash drives

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:57:00 Europe/Amsterdam

KINGMAX has launched its ED-07 range of USB 3.0 flash drives, capable of delivering up to 170MB/s read and 40MB/s write performance. These flash drives feature high speed Toggle or ONFI MLC Flash,...

CD Projekt says the truth is, DRM doesn't work

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:48:00 Europe/Amsterdam

In an interview between Forbes and CD Projekt CEO Marcin Iwinski, Iwinski said the truth is that DRM simply does not work. He said the main problem is that the copy protection is cracked within...

Diablo 3 game fans hit with always-online DRM grief

Fri, 18 May 2012 20:04:00 Europe/Amsterdam

it appears that Blizzard underestimated the server capacity required to handle all the gamers, thus resulting in Battle.net servers being overloaded and taken offline at launch. As Diablo III...

OCZ releases 7mm low-profile line-up of its Vertex 3

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:32:00 Europe/Amsterdam

OCZ is getting ready to launch its Vertex 3 LP series, which is a 7mm low profile version of its Vertex 3. This series is designed to fit in Ultrabooks and Tablets that have a 7mm bay height...

RunCore unveils InVincible SSD with smoking self-destruct

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:20:00 Europe/Amsterdam

RunCore has launched its InVincible SSD line, claiming to provide the highest data security with its two physically attached buttons, coloured green & red, giving the user a choice of whether to wipe...

Crucial Adrenaline Solid State Cache Review.

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:21:00 Europe/Amsterdam

MyCE takes a closer look on the Crucial Adrenaline Solid State Cache drive. The Crucial Adrenaline drive is an easy solution to boost your system performance, without any compromises on the capacity,...

Crucial releases LRDIMM server memory for Intel Xeon E5 Family

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:02:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Crucial, a leading global brand of memory and storage upgrades, today announced the immediate availability of Crucial Load-Reduced DIMM (LRDIMM) server memory in support of the new Intel� Xeon�...

Hitachi unveils 2.5" 7mm & 9.5mm CinemaStar HDDs for AV

Wed, 16 May 2012 23:41:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Hitachi has announced its new family of CinemaStar 2.5" hard disks for set-top boxes such as DVRs, Satellite/Cable PVRs, including traditional and ultra-slim models. The family includes 7mm models...

Hybrid HDD Ultrabooks to attack pure-SSD Ultrabook market

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:15:00 Europe/Amsterdam

According to researchers at TrendFocus, a 128GB SSD still accounts for roughly 25% of the BOM (build of materials) cost of an Ultrabook. With the development of thin 7mm 2.5" HDDs, TrendFocus...

Asus unveils a stylish USB 6x Blu-ray writer inc. BDXL support

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:29:00 Europe/Amsterdam

The writer can write up to 6x BD-R SL/DL, 4X BD-R TL/QL, 2X BD-RE SL/DL/TL, 8X DVD�R, 8x DVD+RW, 6x DVD-RW, 6x DVD�R DL, 5x DVD-RAM, 24x CD-R and 16x CD-RW. It can read up to 6x Blu-ray, 8X DVD and...

Dane-Elec launches mySSD O-Series for mission-critical use

Tue, 15 May 2012 01:27:00 Europe/Amsterdam

The Series features SMART enterprise-level data monitoring, advanced wear levelling, two embedded encryption engines and a high performance SiliconMotion SM2244 SSD SATA2 controller. The SSD range...

Icy Dock ships bare-HDD hot-swap internal docking station

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:24:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Icy Dock has unveiled its latest 5.25" bay dock, the MB971SP-B DuoSwap that bare 2.5" and 3.5" HDDs can be slotted directly into, without the need for a tray or screwing anything on to the HDD. The...

Microsoft invests in startup BitTorrent piracy-killer company

Mon, 14 May 2012 17:10:00 Europe/Amsterdam

A new Russian based startup company, Pirate Pay, claims to offer the entertainment industry a technology to kill BitTorrent based file sharing by attacking BitTorrent swarms, making it impossible to...

Digistor ships 100GB BD-R XL for HD video & data archival

Mon, 14 May 2012 14:54:00 Europe/Amsterdam

This media features a 4X write-speed , an inkjet printable surface and its specialised hard coat technology surface. This media is compatible with all BD-R XL capable optical drives.

Transcend launches SandForce based mSATA SATA3 SSDs

Fri, 11 May 2012 21:23:00 Europe/Amsterdam

This MSA720 range is capable of delivering up to 560MB/s read and 530MB/s write, along with a random 4K write of 91,000 IOPS, bringing it inline with upper-end 2.5" SSDs. For security,...

Enthrill unveils PackaDRM to protect eBooks with 'social DRM'

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:23:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Enthrill Distribution is looking to transform the eBook industry with platform-neutral "Social DRM" that works through the use of watermarking, called PackaDRM(TM). This DRM relies on enforcing a...

DVD/Blu-ray's to show 20 seconds of unskippable warnings

Thu, 10 May 2012 17:19:00 Europe/Amsterdam

The six major movie studios will be placing two unskippable ten second copyright warnings on all their new DVD and Blu-ray releases starting this week, which appear after pressing 'Play' at the main...

TDK launches Series 7 line of mSATA SSDs with SLC NAND

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:32:00 Europe/Amsterdam

TDK had launched its Series 7 line of mSATA SSDs with SLC NAND, making them ideal for use as a cache drive Intel's Rapid Storage Technology SSD caching. This SSD new series 7 line features 128-bit...

Tor Books plan to end DRM may help end eBook format wars

Wed, 09 May 2012 20:19:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Tor Books, the world's largest science fiction publisher Tor Books, along with its UK sister company, Tor UK, announced that by the summer, they will be eliminating DRM from its eBooks. This...

Kingston HyperX 3K SSD review

Wed, 09 May 2012 14:33:00 Europe/Amsterdam

MyCE is taking an indepth look on the Kingston HyperX 3K SSD. The Kingston HyperX 3K comes with the 25nm NAND from Intel and uses the Sandforce SF-2281 processor. Continue reading to find out more...

A new ISP in New Zealand offers access to geolocation blocked sites

Tue, 08 May 2012 16:16:00 Europe/Amsterdam

A New Zealand ISP is pushing back against global restrictions and access to popular media sites. Is this the beginning of a new type of global access to media?

ADATA launches SP900 & SP800 SSD series in US & Canada

Tue, 08 May 2012 15:11:00 Europe/Amsterdam

ADATA has launched its SATA3 Premier Pro SP900 and SATA2 Premier SP800 SSD ranges to the US and Canadian market, featuring ~7% additional capacity.

The Pirate Bay warns of scam proxies/copies

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:35:00 Europe/Amsterdam

As The Pirate Bay censorship reaches more countries, various websites sprung up to help users get around the block. A few of these are using crafty new methods to trick users into paying "donations"...

Audio-Technica unveils improved active noise-cancelling headphones

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:35:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Audio-Technica has launched its latest flagship noise-cancelling headphones range, the ATH-ANC9 QuietPoint. Its new features includes a choice of three user-selectable noise-cancellation settings,...

Dane-Elec unveils its USB3 80MB/s Sport Flash Drive series

Mon, 07 May 2012 22:01:00 Europe/Amsterdam

The Dane-Elec Sport Flash Drive Line comes in a choice of three capacities, with colours corresponding to the capacity - 8GB (red), 16GB (blue) and 32GB (black). The three flash drives feature read...

OCZ vastly improves Vertex 4 range in firmware v1.4 update

Mon, 07 May 2012 21:40:00 Europe/Amsterdam

OCZ has released a firmware v1.4RC for its Vertex 4 SSD line, claiming to offer a significant boost across its range of Vertex 4 SSDs. The 128GB model write performance is over-doubled from 420MB/s...

OCZ Vertex 4 SSD review update

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:00:00 Europe/Amsterdam

OCZ are never a company to stand still. Only last month I reviewed the Vertex 4, and found it was the fastest SSD I had ever reviewed. Just one month down the line and OCZ have updated the...

Samsung reveal their latest potential iPhone beater!

Sat, 05 May 2012 22:46:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Samsung have unveiled their latest flagship Smartphone the Galaxy S III which Samsung claim builds on and extends the features offered by their previous best selling Galaxy S II. The release date for...

Windows Media Center to be sold separately for Windows 8

Sat, 05 May 2012 01:26:00 Europe/Amsterdam

This pack will be available to Windows 8 Pro customers, priced at what Microsoft claims will be in-line with marginal costs. Windows 8 (home version) customers will need to purchase the Windows 8...

SSDs hit 65� per GB, OCZ predicts further price cuts

Fri, 04 May 2012 21:51:00 Europe/Amsterdam

OCZ Technology Group said that due to the recent cuts in NAND flash memory pricing along with improvements to its proprietary controller technology, it has been able to bring its SSD pricing to...

Mac Xtreme Technology unveils SATA3 SSDs for MacBook Air

Thu, 03 May 2012 21:32:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Mac Xtreme Technology, a leading Mac maker of computer hardware components has unveiled its SATA MX-KATANA 6Gbps series of SSD modules. These feature the second generation SandForce controller and...

Tablet computers now the second main TV in the home

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:37:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Tablet computers such as the iPad are rapidly eating into the multi-billion Dollar TV business, with an estimated 112.5m consumers expected to own one in the US by 2016, according to Forrester. Most...

DensBits solution claims 10,000 P/E cycles with TLC flash

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:16:00 Europe/Amsterdam

DensBits has released the first TLC embedded Flash controller solution that claims to deliver over 10,000 erase cycles with the latest 2Xnm and 1Xnm process TLC Flash, including ONFI 2.3 and Toggle...

OCZ adds a 1TB model to its Octane SSD series

Wed, 02 May 2012 14:06:00 Europe/Amsterdam

OCZ has expanded its Octane series with a 1TB model, the OCT1-25SAT3-1T. The 1TB model features up to 460MB/s read and 330MB/s write and up to 24K IOPS read and 32K IOPS write.

Hitachi GST to unveil the industry's first 12Gbps SAS SSD

Tue, 01 May 2012 23:00:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Hitachi GST, a subsidiary of Western Digital, has announced the storage industry's first demonstration of a 12Gbps SAS SSD, double the current SAS speed used in enterprise servers. It will...

Pioneer launches BDR-2207 BDXL Quad-layer Blu-ray writer

Tue, 01 May 2012 20:06:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Pioneer, a company well known for optical drives since the first DVD writers, has launched its latest and most powerful internal Blu-ray writer, the BDR-2207. This writer includes read and write...

The High Court in the UK says ISP's must block The Pirate Bay

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:40:00 Europe/Amsterdam

WD HDD production meets predicted customer HDD demand

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:28:00 Europe/Amsterdam

According to an executive officer of Western Digital, they have restored production capacity to the point where it is able to adequately meet customer demand in the current quarter and beyond.

HighPoint unveils RocketStor HDD dock with RAID & 2xUSB3

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:19:00 Europe/Amsterdam

HighPoint launched an external double bay HDD dock capable of delivering 10Gbps of bandwidth using two USB3 connections. It comes in two editions: SMART RAID and SMART Backup, both capable of...