Filed under: Home Entertainment, Storage, Networking

Seagate knows that you can never have too much storage space at your disposal, which is why the company’s just bulked up its well-received NAS line with the 1TB Maxtor Shared Storage II. Like other products of the same ilk, the SS II allows up to 20 connected Mac or Windows PCs to send and receive data to and from the two 7,200RPM 500GB hard drives, which can also be configured in a RAID 1 array for an extra level of protection. A high-speed Gigabit Ethernet connection should ensure rapid file transfers, and two built-in USB ports allow you to connect a printer or other peripheral device for sharing among multiple users. You’re also getting UPnP support here, so with the proper adapters you can stream tunes, vids, and pics to compatible networked A/V gear throughout your pad. The Shared Storage II is scheduled for release sometime this month, but such a capacious device doesn’t come cheap: expect to throw down around $900 if you’re interested in this whole-house storage and backup solution.

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Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Media PCs

Although home theater PCs are great for watching and listening to your digital content from the comfort of your couch, most lack the graphics horsepower for playing your favorite games on your 60-inch plasma and eight speaker setup. Not so with Okoro‘s new OMS-GX300, which besides sporting a dual-core Athlon64 FX-60 processor from AMD, also packs in that tasty SLI goodness in the form of nVidia’s GeForce 7950 GX2 card featuring a full gig of video RAM. As if that weren’t enough to get you excited, the GX300 also comes with 1TB of storage standard — upgradable to a whopping 3TB thanks to four open SATA bays — three TV tuners (2 analog and one OTA digital), an HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 sound card, and just about every input and output that you could ask for — except, curiously, HDMI. Best of all, this model features a 7-inch front panel touchscreen for displaying tons of infoswag, at a price that’s at least four hundred bucks less than the $5,000-and-up screen-less Denali series from Niveus.

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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Wireless, Storage

A partnership announced today by storage specialist Infrant Technologies and Squeezebox-maker Slim Devices promises to give consumers an easy way to store and stream up to 200,000 songs around the house, no computer necessary. The two companies are now offering a bundle which includes Infrant’s 1TB ReadyNAS network attached storage device pre-loaded with the SlimServer software along with two Squeezebox 3′s for $1,500, advertising that the coupling signals the “death of the CD player.” We’ll wager that many of our readers have already kicked the CD habit long ago, but there’s no denying the appeal of having a full terabyte of RAID-protected tracks in a plethora of different formats that can be streamed anywhere your little heart desires.

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