Lacie Ethernet & Edmini NAS RAID Data Recovery. Apex is pleased to advise we can recover from the broken RAID in these systems. The disks may be shown as New Disk as opposed to RAID 5 in the Console program. They systems tend to crash on power cut / failure. The Raid is broken and Shared folders are lost. Orange Flashing Disks Status Error Light, and solid orange system status LED light. The Disk Change Notification One or more hard disks in the storage system have failed screen possibly appears when accessing the storage system console program.

Dell has unveiled three consumer systems -- the XPSTM 410n and DimensionTM E520n desktops and the InspironTM E1505n notebook -- with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distribution factory installed. It is also understood they are certifying select systems for running Red Hat and Novell's SUSE (presumably to keep Microsoft happy)!

SA Peugeot Citroën, the second-largest automobile manufacturer in Europe, and Novell just signed a multiyear contract allowing the deployment of up to 20,000 Linux* desktops plus 2,500 Linux servers from Novell.

Dell have introduced the PowerVault MD3000, a versatile, direct-attached storage array delivering high performance and high availability for critical applications. The PowerVault MD3000 is the first external RAID SAS array from a tier-one storage system company.

Warner Bros have proposed a DVD disc that includes Blu-ray on one side and HD-DVD on the other. It will be known as Total HD disc. This is in contrast to LG who have a player that can read Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs, while Toshiba announced it has developed a 51GB triple-layer HD DVD.

The Police are treading a fine line by working with online activists in the fight against internet fraud according to a report in ZDNet. Due to funding and resourcing pressures the police are having to tap alternative information and revenue streams to combat cybercrime. Groups such as Artists Against 419 and the Internet Fraud Advisory offer advice and tools on how to avoid scammers and list suspected fraudulent websites.

Toshiba is the pioneer of high capacity, small form factor HDD. The company's current 1.8-inch HDD, is used in palmtops, ultraportable notebook PCs, handheld GPS units, and digital audio players and jukeboxes. With the new drive, only a quarter the size of a 1.8-inch drive, Toshiba achieves a hard drive with capacity to deliver enhanced data storage to smaller, lighter more efficient products.

The project to bring one laptop per child for $100 is expected to hit mass production during August/September. The project uses Linux Operating system for the laptop and are designated for third-world countries.

SanDisk have created a 32GB 1.8"inch flash drive to replace Hard Disks in notebook / laptop computers. The drive stores information on flash memory chips rather than the magnetic platters that make up a traditional hard drive. This will reduce power consumption as they don't contain moving parts.

The next generation encryption system for high-definition DVDs are looking into a hacker's claim that he has cracked the code protecting the new discs from piracy.

A hacker known as Muslix64 posted on the Internet details of how he unlocked the encryption, known as the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), which prevents high-definition discs from illegal copying by restricting which devices can play them.