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Every once in a while we find products whose names just don't make much sense, but we have to write about them anyway.
MyDigitalSSD's Bullet Proof 3 mSATA III SSDs might be an example, if they don't turn out to be truly capable of surviving gun shots.
Of course, we don't actually expect anyone... |
25 May 2012
09:12 GMT |
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Sharkoon decided it was time two of its cases got upgraded, so instead of re-branding or otherwise trying to make them unique, it added the lacking features and sent the enclosures on their way.
The two cases that have received extra functionality are Sharkoon Nightfall and Sharkoon Rebel9 Aluminum.
They used to ... |
7 May 2012
05:48 GMT |
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We've seen the DarkGlider mouse and now we can look at the three keyboards that Sharkoon is almost ready to launch.The Sharkoon Nightwriter is a first for the company, being equipped with blue LED illumination. It has 105 standard keys (transparently marked) and 13 multimedia keys. The backlight is activated via... |
2 March 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Sharkoon is getting ready for this year's CeBIT trade show in Hannover Germany, so it has a bunch of items set and ready.Here we will look at the DarkGlider Mouse, based on the Avago ADNS-9500 laser sensor (up to 6,000 DPI resolution and 11,750 FPS frame rate).The mouse movement supports acceleration of up to 30... |
2 March 2012
17:51 GMT |
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Sharkoon is continuing its string of USB product releases with a new adapter for desktops.What it is now releasing is quite different from the A, B and C 3.5-inch front panels from last week.One thing easily noticeable is that the newcomer is much more tiny.Basically, this is an internal adapter that converts one, st... |
30 December 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Frustrated that your shiny, mighty new motherboard has loads of pin headers but nothing to link them to? Do you wish your desktop case had more than a couple of plugs and the audio jack on the front?
Fear not, for Sharkoon has built three distinct 3.5-inch front panels that will finally decorate that desktop with a ... |
23 December 2011
19:41 GMT |
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Given how many sizes cases come in, some of them don't support the bigger pieces of consumer hardware out there, so Sharkoon decided to make sure it has one for precisely those people who want long graphics cards and such.
Then again, it would be just as accurate to say that Sharkoon revealed three such cases,... |
21 December 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Sharkoon decided to end the week on a high and colorful note, so it released the Tauron case, which supports ATX and micro ATX motherboards.
The Tauron could very well classify as a case series on its own, since it has three color options (outside/inside colors) and, thus, three price points too.
The white mode... |
10 December 2011
06:24 GMT |
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For those who want a means of using their SATA drives externally, Sharkoon built a new drive docking station called SATA QuickDeck Pro.
Essentially, this is an easy way to link a drive to a PC and even have it work at high speeds, via the USB 3.0 connection.
The weight of the QuickDeck pro is 240 grams and its size... |
4 November 2011
05:06 GMT |
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As always, Sharkoon isn't letting too much time pass without some sort of product release, in this case having prepared not one, but three lines of power supplies.
The three PSUs that Sharkoon created and set up on its website are the QP400, QP500 and QP600.
The QP400 is detailed in full here, while the QP50... |
31 October 2011
06:49 GMT |
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Sharkoon's newest power supplies may not have the 80Plus logo stamped all over them but, they do appear to, nonetheless, possess a significant degree of efficiency.
Sharkoon claims that its newest power supply units, dubbed WPM-Series, all have an efficiency of over 80%.
In other words, they will never waste... |
28 October 2011
10:02 GMT |
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For those people who often find themselves in need of a quick way to plug a regular HDD or SSD into a PC, Sharkoon has built a new docking station, the latest int a long series that doesn't look like it will be getting any shorter any time soon.By now, some people can probably associate, quite easily, Sharkoon&... |
18 October 2011
09:16 GMT |
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We talked last month about a new product from Sharkoon that had started to show up online and it looks like shipments are finally being carried out.
Sharkoon has reached the stage where it releases a new product, or at least announces the impending arrive of one, on a fairly regular basis.
Desktop cases are o... |
7 October 2011
09:29 GMT |
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Sharkoon, a company well known for its storage enclosures and computer peripherals, has just announced the introduction of two new micro-ATX chassis, the MS120 and MS140, which can support graphics cards measuring up to 36cm (14.2-inches) in length.
In order to achieve this feat, Sharkoon had to resort to a desig... |
30 September 2011
03:17 GMT |
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The market for PC enclosures has just seen a new addition, one made by Sharkoon, a company that, in this case, decided to try and bring some more sophistication and versatility to the Vaya, a PC chassis that focuses on affordability.
The Vaya Value Edition is, one might say, a representation of the industry'... |
23 September 2011
07:33 GMT |
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Coming to contribute to the ever-present flow of high-speed external storage products, Sharkoon figured this was as good a time as any for its latest invention to show its worth.
With the fame that USB 3.0 earned over the past year, it would have been strange if time kept passing without some other device based o... |
13 September 2011
08:08 GMT |
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Not impeded by how the desktop front seems to be slowing down, Sharkoon has stepped forward and revealed its newest mid-tower enclosure, complete with pricing details.The PC case market is one that often sees new members emerging from the labs of IT players, even though desktops have been losing ground to the mobile... |
29 August 2011
04:18 GMT |
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In the last couple of months, Sharkoon has introduced quite a large number of entry-level PC cases and this list just got longer as the company has recently unveiled the Vaya, a value ATX mid-tower chassis priced at just around $35.
Made entirely out of SECC steel and ABS plastic, the Vaya uses an inverted design,... |
7 July 2011
03:02 GMT |
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Even though the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard has come a long way over the past 12 months, the fact is that it is not really overly widespread yet, something that Sharkoon seeks to remedy and reap profits out of at the same time.One thing that will soon come to exist on all current and next-generation PCs, as well as ... |
17 June 2011
10:32 GMT |
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Sharkoon has recently expanded its range of ATX chassis with the addition of the T5 Value model, which adds a series of higher-end features to the Sharkoon T5 Economy case that was presented in March of this year.All these are meant to make the chassis more attractive in the eyes of enthusiasts who want to build a fe... |
14 June 2011
09:24 GMT |
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It appears that Sharkoon doesn't feel like letting this week go by without some sort of product announcement, so it isn't really that big a surprise to learn of a new flash drive series.The market for USB flash drives is one that grew quickly, exponentially even, during the first months of its life.Basical... |
1 June 2011
07:38 GMT |
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The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface is one that has spread quite quickly among storage devices, and it really looks like the Sharkoon has made liberal use of it when it built its two newest external drive enclosures.While at one point storage devices were bulky things that had no place other than inside equally burly c... |
6 April 2011
09:07 GMT |
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Sharkoon, a company well known for its storage enclosures and computer peripherals, has just announced the introduction of two new chassis, the midi-tower AL4 and the mini-tower AL2, which feature an all aluminum construction at an affordable price.
These are the first chassis in the company's lineup to be bu... |
30 March 2011
09:33 GMT |
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The market for HDD docks is not exactly a large one, but it can easily be said to be a persistent one, as there are quite a few hardware makers that supply it on a regular basis, one of them, Sharkoon, having made its most recent move just a short time ago.The one big problem with buying a new storage unit is that o... |
23 March 2011
04:34 GMT |
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After unleashing a bunch of portable enclosures, storage units and various other things, Sharkoon is now making a move on the PC case segment, having released three new T Series models.Sharkoon is one of those companies that deal in a variety of products, many of them being cases or variations of the concept (drive ... |
21 March 2011
05:22 GMT |
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We've seen plenty of HDD enclosures and other such storage solutions from Sharkoon making their way onto the market lately, and now, it's about time to take a closer look at yet another such product of this type, namely the Quickstore Portable Pro.Available in both USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 versions (the latter i... |
16 March 2011
04:35 GMT |
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It appears that, instead of launching some new device line, Sharkoon decided to, instead, build on the popularity of an already existing product collection, that being the Flexi-Drive Extreme Duo series of flash drive units.Those consumers keeping an eye out for what has been happening at the CeBIT trade show in Han... |
1 March 2011
11:06 GMT |
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There are quite a few sorts of connectors on the market, and sometimes it becomes necessary to come up with such things as converters, something that Sharkoon knows well if its new adapter is anything to go by.While at one point floppy disks and optical disks were the only widespread means of moving data form one PC... |
16 February 2011
06:50 GMT |
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Sharkoon's not exactly a newcomer to the field of USB 3.0 – enabled storage solutions, and for this reason, the fact that they've added yet another SuperSpeed USB flash drive to their existing collection shouldn't come as much of a surprise.The storage device in question is called the Flexi-Drive... |
9 February 2011
03:07 GMT |
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It appears that Antec is not the only company to have broken the silence in order to deliver new computer cases, as Sharkoon has also provided two of them, new additions to the existing Scorpio line.Sharkoon Technologies figured it was high time its two newest PC enclosures saw the light of day, so it updated its we... |
4 February 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Since USB 3.0 is gaining quite a lot of momentum right now and the number of SuperSpeed – enabled portable storage solutions available on the market is still limited (when compared to the existing demand), Sharkoon has decided to join the fray with a USB 3.0 flash drive of its own, namely the Flexi-Drive Extrem... |
17 December 2010
03:41 GMT |
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It seems that not IT companies are releasing even less than common devices nowadays, no doubt seeking to play on end-users' curiosity and willingness to spend more during the holidays.Computer cases generally have a full set of internal drive bays, so as to be able to house a number of storage devices.Still, th... |
10 December 2010
09:37 GMT |
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Sharkoon has been in the business of making and selling new external storage solutions for a while now, and It appears that its two latest additions to its line of docking stations have now become official.HDD docks are a sort of product that started to gain traction when the HDD industry itself accelerated in devel... |
7 December 2010
03:52 GMT |
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For those end-users that want to use regular hard disk drives or solid state drives as external units, there are a variety of docks and special enclosures on today's market, and Sharkoon has just revealed its latest QuickPort Series product.There is a number of reasons for which consumers would choose... |
19 October 2010
06:34 GMT |
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Sharkoon has already revealed a number of HDD docking stations as part of its QuickPort series, but it has just done something quite unusual and, instead of offering such a PC accessory, built it directly into its latest PC ATX chassis, the Bandit.HDD docking stations are meant to allow end-users to use their spare ... |
2 September 2010
08:46 GMT |
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USB 3.0 has become quite popular over the past few months. This is obvious from the fact that many new laptops, motherboards or computer cases feature compatibility with this new standard, even though neither Intel nor AMD actually offer native chipset support for it. On the other hand, not all of the recently unlea... |
25 June 2010
09:21 GMT |
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For all the benefits that technological advancements bring, they often have less than favorable side-effects when it comes to already existing devices. On the storage front, the emergence of a new interface always leaves previous-generation devices with nothing to do after consumers upgrade their platforms. This is e... |
12 May 2010
10:20 GMT |
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The most common means by which an external and portable storage device can connect to a PC is the very much omnipresent USB 2.0 technology. Unfortunately, this interface hasn't exactly held the title of fastest I//O solution for some time now. The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard is one of its betters, possessing a t... |
9 April 2010
08:34 GMT |
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It is known that gaming enthusiasts would often go to great lengths to make sure that their rigs are as customized and solemn as possible, which is why a gaming rig always has special peripherals, controllers, decorations and other features that distinguish it from the dull, mainstream systems of everyday life. Now, ... |
30 March 2010
10:04 GMT |
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With the advent of the USB 3.0 interface, end-users have been looking for ways to employ the new standard in order to provide their systems with extra storage. Sharkoon has already launched a number of devices meant to either provide this functionality or directly connect USB 3.0 devices to a home or small office net... |
20 February 2010
05:30 GMT |
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Sharkoon has just introduced a batch of new additions to its Rebel9 chassis lineup, specifically four mid-tower models that build upon the design of their predecessors and also come with added features. The company is offering four distinct models, each featuring enough room for users to implement whatever configurat... |
3 February 2010
08:31 GMT |
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After it released the USB 3.0 addon card, which answered end-users' prayers for a way to use their new USB 3.0 flash drives at full power, Sharkoon has kept the universal serial bus spirit alive by releasing a new computing accessory, the USB LANport, a device that allows for the connection of hard drives, print... |
30 November 2009
10:29 GMT |
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When Intel said it would be pushing USB 3.0 hardware as far away as 2011, ASUS had already finished working on a motherboard with USB 3.0 support. Still, to alleviate the suffering of those PC enthusiasts who wouldn't have a perfect Christmas without USB 3.0, Sharkoon introduced today its solution: a USB 3.0 add... |
17 November 2009
08:59 GMT |
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PC gaming enthusiasts are always looking for new and better devices that can help them improve their gaming skills. Ranging from better PC hardware to keyboards and mice, a number of companies have dedicated their attention to designing products that are gaming focused. On that note, there's a new toy in town ju... |
11 March 2009
07:54 GMT |
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Traditional hard disk drives face a fierce competition from solid state drives these days, and all seems to favor the SSD technology. The new storage solutions offer more reliability and robustness and are also able to provide more performance compared to the spinning platters. They operate in silence, output al... |
4 November 2008
06:32 GMT |
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Picture this: it's nine o'clock in the morning and you have started your day crawling under the desk to find that nasty power button of your computer. The bad news is that you can't push it with your leg, or worse: you can, but this will have you fired for devastation. The good news is that the Sharkoo... |
29 February 2008
08:43 GMT |
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Sharkoon has announced an update to the Swift-Case line up of external hard drive enclosures, that would allow users to take advantage of the popular RFID encryption technology. The majority of the computer users are careless when it comes to securing personal data, because they either don't know how to do it or... |
21 January 2008
04:10 GMT |
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Sharkoon just announced the launch of its latest central processing unit active cooling solution, the Silent Eagle cooler that comes as a continuation of its previous line of products released under the same name, preserving their superb cooling performance which is obtained thanks to the Direct Touch technology.This... |
27 September 2007
08:06 GMT |
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