Have you ever look at your door’s top edge when trying to find your lost thing? Well, no one would have thought about that area when trying to find their stuff. But it’s also one of the very best opportunity to hide your stuff there. The most dangerous spot is the safest spot. Sean Michael Ragan has blogged about the door’s top sweet hidden spot that you can consider to hide your important stuffs there. It’s a part of Makeprojects and I think it’s pretty cool.

It takes no rocket science to do. This project is called Doortop Stash, taking the advantages of the door’s thickness, you can actually make a deep hole and insert a tube-like storage where you can hide your keys, USB flash drive, or emergency money.

What does the top edge of say, your utility closet door look like? I’m betting that you’ve never seen it, even if you’ve lived in your home for awhile. And although there’s not a lot of room to hide stuff in there, well, if you’re like me, the stuff you want to hide is usually on the smaller side. Not many people think of the space inside the door as a hiding spot, but it’s right there in easy reaching distance when you need to get to it. And it’s devious enough that, yes, I think this trick will still be effective even after I blog it all over the web.

You’ll need a suitable hollow-core interior door, a cigar tube, a few tools, and some other odds ‘n’ ends.

You can find the details at MakeProjects if you wish to make one.

Doortop Stash – Project To Create Uncommon Spot To Hide Your Stuffs
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Packard Bell is releasing their new Studio ST HD Media Storage with media playback functionality in the Europe market. The media storage has a cool glowing edge (the logo) and entirely masked in black glossy finish. The dimension is pretty compact, and you might love to place it on the most crowded area in your home so people can see it (because it’s cool looking).

Packard Bell Studio ST HD Media Storage can play most music and video files, including viewing image files and Dolby Digital decoding. You will find one component output and HDMI video output to let you easily plug it into your HDTV. For sharing purpose, Packard Bell Studio ST HD Media Storage also include one USB Port, where you can plug your external USB hard drive or USB flash drive and playback its content on your HDTV.

Packard Bell Studio ST HD Media Storage will be available for you in size between 500GB to 2TB (2000GB) and you’s also get one dedicated remote control to navigate through the content.

[Packard Bell via techfresh]

Packard Bell Studio ST HD Media Storage Drive
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We’ve missed this important updates last week about first 2TB hard drive from Hitachi. It’s important because such a huge storage could really easing out storage junkie who love big space to store their junks. yes, it’s not as mind-blowing as LaCie Quadra 32TB storage. However, to be able to stuff 2TB inside one 3.5-inch hard drive is quite an accomplishment.

The speed of the hard drive remain unchanged at 7200RPM. Now words whether its SATA II interface or not, but this hard drive won’t perform slower than any hard drive except the 10,000RPM hard drive. The code name for this 2TB Hitachi hard drive is 7K2000, it will available in this week with price estimated at $260 (double the price for the 1TB version).

Source: CrunchGear

Hitachi Hard Drive Hits 2TB
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A good news for SSD lover, Toshiba is going to launch the first 512GB Solid State Drive! Yep, until today, the largest capacity of SSD is 256GB either from Samsung or from Micron.

Well thanks to Toshiba efforts, the first 512GB SSD is going to be on the showcase at International CES 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada this January 8, 2009!

Toshiba First 512GB SSD

The drive is in 2.5 inch with read speed of 240MBps and write speed of 200MBps. Beside this 512GB version, Toshiba also line up their 43nm NAND SSD family which consist of 64GB, 128GB and 256GB offered in 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch in both drive enclosure or SSD Flash Module. So, make sure to not missing the opportunity to see this cool SSD at CES next year if you are in Las Vegas!

(via TechPowerUp)

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Remember the LaCie 750GB Hard Drive that we’ve covered last time? It seems that size is out of stock and you won’t be able to get them anymore. LaCie Hard drive now is available in 1TB size and you can get it for the same price! Yes, it’s £99.95 or around $160, which means you are getting the additional 250GB for free.

LaCie 1TB Hard Drive Features:

• Near-silent fanless operation
• Fast interface transfer rate
• Designed by award winning Neil Poulton
• Blue-LED for ambient under-glow
• Plug and play
• Simple, lightweight and efficient
• Interface: Hi-speed USB 2.0
• Interface transfer rate: up to 480Mbits/s
• Rotational speed: 7200rpm
• Cache: 16MB

So who would want one? From home users to computer techies, this high quality 1TB hard disk drive offers excellent value for money and will look pretty classy on your desktop too. Pick your LaCie Hard Disk up today and say goodbye to all your storage problems.

LaCie 1TB Hard Drive can be yours for only £99.95 at Gizoo.co.uk.

LaCie 1TB – Better Hard Drive with Larger Storage
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Finally, our thirst of data storage is fulfilled by LG’s latest monster storage called LG N4B1, a super-huge NAS – Network Attached Storage to store all your “Life” there!

LG N4B1 NAS with Blu-ray drive

Featuring capacity up to 4TB (WOW!) and the multi-interface of connection ranging from 3 USB ports and one e-SATA hot-pluggable port. Too bad they don’t implement to future USB3.0 which has the fastest transfer rate of 4Ghz!

LG N4B1 NAS on the show

As you can see in the picture, (oke, not the lady!) the NAS is coming with a BLU-RAY logo there. Did you spot that, folks? Yep, nothing wrong with your eyes. You now can actually use it to burn out your junks to your Blu-Ray discs in a snap! It’s a wonderful combination of creature of storage and monster of media drive into one.

Anyway, LG N4B1 by default is set to backing up your data regularly to Blu-ray media. So you can rest assure of your data lost if the hard drive broken.

There is no price disclose in the source yet. But you can see more great pictures over at Akihabaranews.

LG N4B1 – NAS with Built-in Blu-Ray Drive
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Fabrik’s born from the blend of technology and nature. Basically Fabrik (Not Fabrix) is designed to eliminated the uses of Fan to using the nature bamboo and recycled aluminum.

Features:

• Energy-efficient external hard drive uses less power
• Eco-friendly ingredients and packaging
• Automatically powers on or off with your computer
• Simple plug n play add-on storage
• Turbo USB 2.0* interface, up to 25% faster than USB 2.0
• Also compatible with USB 2.0, 1.1
• Award-winning Fabrik backup software, including 2GB free online backup
• Friendly, free unlimited technical support
• PC and Mac compatible
• One-year warranty

“Fabrik’s SimpleTech Turbo is designed with rippled sides to dissipate heat, negating the need for a fan, and it’s made from recycled aluminum and, of course, bamboo.”

– hipstomp | Core77

Fabrik’s [re]drive Turbo offers a whopping 500GB storage inside the case. More information available at Core77 and iGreenSpot.

Fabrik’s [re]drive Turbo Hard drive – Nature Blended Design
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