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While there are hardly any widely available applications or content that require more than about 100 – 200GB of storage space, LaCie, a leading producer of innovative and breakthrough storage products, thinks there is a market for 1TB storage solutions nowadays. LaCie recently revealed its Bigger Disk storage solutions based on a number of HDDs with 7200rpm motors, 10ms seek time and 8MB cache buffers, delivering unbelievable 1TB of storage space in total. The external hard drive comes in stylish and compact 5.25” form-factor with FireWire 400, FireWire 800, USB 2.0 and power connectors. The Bigger Disk is easy to use, as it becomes fully-functional right after plugging to a computer.

The LaCie Bigger Disk features an on/off button, but also offers a unique automatic startup, shutdown and hibernation option to reduce excess noise and save energy. Ideal for audio users looking for a noise-free work environment, the Bigger Disk features an ultra quiet operating mode. Engineered out of aluminum and ZAMAC; this metal alloy dissipates heat from the drive and prolongs drive performance. The Bigger Disk is primarily designed as a cost-effective solution for digital video or other kinds of media storage. The solution may surely be used as a very big storage for a small workgroup. A peculiarity that restricts LaCie Bigger Disk from being deployed in mission-critical applications is the absence of RAID function, something that is crucially required by enterprises.

News source: X-bit labs

Main features of Advanced WMA Workshop:

- Handy User's Interface
Easy-to-use Explorer-like interface allows you easily navigate throug audio files on our computer and perform all actions just by one mouse click even for unproficient user.
- Batch Conversion Support
In case of mass conversion you can use inbuilt Batch Conversion engine to increase perfomance. You just need to add files you want to convert to Batch Queue and ress "Process tasks" button! You can easily change conversion settings(output format, it's settings, ID3 Tag information) of tasks in Batch Queue, after you add them.
- Fast Conversion Speed
Audio formats conversion is performed directly, without any temporary WAV files, this fact means higher converting speed and economy of hard disk resource. Fast processing speed saves your time and high conversion quality allows you really to enjoy your digital audio.
- Best Audio Codecs Support
Our digital audio converter uses most modern and fast audio codecs, it internally supports WMA 9 format: WMA 9 with constant bitrate, quality based WMA 9 format with variable bitrate, two-pass bitrate based WMA 9 format with variable bitrate and WMA 9 Lossless format, which allows you to store your digital audio with best qualty. For MP3 encoding it uses fast LAME encoder 3.93, for OGG encoding it uses latest Vorbis SDK updates.
- ID3 Tag v2 Support
Program supports ID3 Tag v2, you can easily transfer all most useful tag fields from one format to another, edit these fields in audio files (multiple files tag edition is also supported).
- Filename generation using ID3 Tag
You can use this feature to generate filename and folder's structure using ID3 Tag information such as artist's and album's name, track's title, genre and track's number.
- Windows XP compatibility
If you use new Windows XP system all conrols in application have XP-style look and feel.
- High Quality CD-Ripping
You can fastly and naturally transcode Audio CD tracks directly to any of WMA 9 format, OGG VOrbis, MP3 or WAV PCM format, using jitter correction to compensate reading errors.
- CDDB Support
You can download information about Audio CD disc such as Album's and Artist's name, track's names, etc. from Internet database just by clicking on CD drive icon in Folders Tree. Saving and loading of CDDB information using
Local CDDB base is also supported.
- Winamp playlists support
Application allows you to create (or append to) Winamp playlists.