The typical enterprise HDD is a 2.5-inch unit. The drives in the enterprise market are smaller than what we typically see in the consumer desktop environment so more HDDs can be fit in the same space. The more drives that can be squeezed into a storage device the less space the enterprise needs for computing needs. Seagate has announced the first 2.5" 1TB HDD for enterprise markets.

The new HDD is in the Constellation.2 line and is aimed specifically at storage applications in servers. The HDD uses the 6Gb/s interface and promises best in class power consumption. Seagate says that the new HDD is appropriate for use in direct attached storage, network attached storage, and storage area network environments.

"Data center managers continue to seek out more efficient storage technologies without sacrificing performance, while still meeting capacity growth requirements," said John Rydning, research director for IDC. "Reaching the 1TB capacity in a small form factor design gives IT managers more options to meet capacity requirements with efficient storage platforms. IDC expects the use of capacity-optimized drives like Seagate's 1TB Constellation.2™ to increase by more than 50% from 2010 to 2014."

Speakal is well known for making some crazy speaker docks for the iPhone, iPod and other MP3 players. The company has the iPig, iPanda, iBoo, and other docks that look like flowers or soccer balls. I have used Speakal products before and they actually sound good even if the look a bit strange. Speakal has announced a new device today called the Cool iPig.

The Cool iPig is a lot like the original iPig but with a different design that is a bit edgier. The new Cool iPig gets elongated eyes that look like sunglasses to me. Those eyes are the speakers and the nose has the controls for the tracks and more. The ears on top have motion controls for volume and other functions. The device can dock the iPhone and dockable iPod devices.

Devices that can't dock can connect to the Cool iPig using a 3.5mm headphone adapter. The pig hides a 2.1 speaker system with 23W of power total and it has adjustable bass. The dock can also be connected to a TV and has a removable rechargeable battery for use on the go. Other features include a wireless remote. You can order one now for about $150 at an introductory price.

Patriot has a bunch of different flash drives in its line of offerings. The company has unveiled its latest flash drive called the Patriot Supersonic. The new drive is small and rugged and offers the superior data transfer speeds of USB 3.0 along with an impressive amount of storage inside the rugged enclosure. The drive uses a single chip inside.

Patriot's new flash drive uses a quad-channel interface for performance and has a very lightweight form factor. The single chip design eliminates the bottlenecks common in USB 3.0 drives today by eliminating the separate USB 3.0 bridge chip and USB 3.0 flash memory controller. Not only does that single chip eliminate bottlenecks, but it also makes for a smaller footprint.

The flash drive is capable of sequential read speed of 100MB/s and a sequential write speed of 70MB/s. Patriot offers the drive in 32GB and 64GB capacity at an undisclosed price. "Patriot is one of the first companies to integrate a native single-chip USB 3.0 flash memory controller. By pairing the controller with our Quad-Channel technology, we're able to maximize performance with the Supersonic series," says Les Henry, Patriot Memory's Vice President of Engineering. "We are able to shrink the physical size of the USB 3.0 flash drives for even greater portability."

Anytime a new OS and a new notebook show up, you have our interest. When Google outted the Chrome Cr-48 notebook we wanted to know just how the thing works and the geeks over at Engadget have laid hands on the device to give us an idea. The machine looks a lot like the hoards of netbooks and ultraportable on the market and reminds me particularly of some of the newer Asus machines.

The entire device is made from a matter black plastic with a rubberized finish. The notebook is 0.9-inches thick and weighs in at 3.6 pounds according to Google. The rig has VGA out, USB port, and a headphone jack along with a SD card reader all built-in. The keyboard is the common chicklet style and it looks good with correctly located keys and nice size shift keys.

The screen has a 1280 x 800 resolution and has a matte finish, which is a really big deal to me. Things are not all perfect though. Engadget says that Flash seems to put a serious strain on the machine with Pandora seeming to bring things to a trickle. In the end, Engadget reckons it can see why people would choose the Chrome netbook over a normal netbook. Hit up the source below for all of the details.

YouTube has had limits on videos since day one. For years it was 10 minutes, back in July YouTube upgraded that to 15 minutes. The reason was simple, YouTube needed a way to prevent users from uploading full television shows and movies that they didn't have the rights to.

Today, YouTube announced it is removing the limit of 15 minutes for some users. Right now there's no indication of just how many users have had this limit removed, YouTube says that it's going to "begin allowing selected users with a history of complying with the YouTube Community Guidelines and our copyright rules to upload videos that are longer than 15 minutes."

This new no-limit release is made possible by YouTube's Content ID system. Content ID is able to take any new video uploaded to YouTube and match it against YouTube's archive of copyrighted video that has been submitted by cable networks, movie studios and other partners. It may not sound great, but keep in mind that YouTube receives 35 hours of uploaded footage every sixty seconds!

Lots of gaming news today - mainly because these games are some of the best in a series of games over the last few years and very, very popular to boot. Anyone who played Uncharted 2 would agree with me, right? Nod if you agree, yes, thanks!

Entertainment Weekly of all places unveiled Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception this morning and since then PlayStation Blog has updated with information, images and box art.

Uncharted 3 will support stereoscopic 3D and the game throws Drake into the desert from a Plane Crash. The current release date is December 2011, but there's no concrete on that release date, yet. Enjoy the screens and teaser trailer!

Fan of the original, amazingly atmospheric Dead Space? Well, you're in luck! Dead Space 2 is set for release early next year and a demo for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is due out on December 21!

Unfortunately, no PC demo will be released. EA and Visceral have been kind enough to get their scares in before Christmas for the consoles with Dead Space 2 making it's debut on the Xbox Live Marketplace worldwide on December 21 with a PlayStation Network release the same day but for North America only. European PS3 owners will have to wait an extra day.

The Dead Space 2 demo starts off with Isaac discovering the Church of Unitology, trying out some new weapons such as the Javelin gun and also trying on a suit equipped with boot jets that give Isaac 360 degree in Zero-G - sounds pretty good, hey?

I would say that about 99% of all the ultraportables and netbooks on the market lack an optical drive. For some people that might be ok, but if you are business type odds are at some point you will wish you had an optical drive. The lack of an optical drive also means that when you are traveling you can't watch a movie to pass the time. If you need an optical drive for a notebook or netbook that didn't come with one, Lite-On has unveiled one called the eNAU608 that might be perfect.

The optical drive will write to DVDs and CDs and can play recorded media as well. It gets all the power it needs to operate directly from the USB port so no power adapter is needed for the device to function. The drive is very slim as well making it easy to pack away in your luggage or backpack. Despite its small size and USB-powered design, the optical drive supports DVD burning at 8x.

The coolest feature of the optical drive may be the fact that you can customize the top of the drive enclosure with one of the included prints from Lite-On or with your own personal photos. The drive also ships with a simple software program for writing CDs and DVDs. Other features include LightScribe and LabelTag. The optical drive is available right now for $69.99.

The product tie ins for the new Tron: Legacy flick are so widely varied that it's hard to see the tie in with some of the stuff. I have seen some clothing that looks like it was meant for strippers and all manner of toys and video games. We are also seeing audio gear and other electronics surface that tie in with the movie. Monster has unveiled a seriously high-end set of headphones that are the Daft Punk Edition Tron: Legacy headphones.

The headphones are very high-end with a price tag that will make many geeks blush. If you want a set of the headphones, you will need to cough up about $350 to get them. The headphones are on Amazon and at other locations right now and have a cool design that is inspired by costumes worn by Daft Punk in the movie cameo. In addition to the Tron design theme and white color, the headphones also light up like stuff in the Tron world.

The headphones ship with a special surround sound mix of the Daft Punk soundtrack for the flick. The headphones have large over the ear pads for comfort, a removable mic boom for gamers, and noise isolation technology built-in. The headphones also have the Monster ControlTalk cable for making calls using the headphones.

We all know that tablets are going to be huge next year. The things are already selling in droves this year with only a few options on the market for consumers to choose from. The tablet market will swell just as the netbook market did in years past. Intel has offered up a new slide that shows the companies that will be offering up tablets in 2011 using Atom processors.

The slide shows that the tablets will all use Atom processors but will run several different operating systems the OS' will include Windows, Android, and MeeGo. Major makers that will be offering Windows tablets include Lenovo, Dell, Asus, Toshiba, and more. Google Android tablets will be offered by Cisco, Asus, Dell, AT&T, and more. MeeGo units will be the least offered it seems with Acer, WeTab, and a couple small firms offering them.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that there will be two Atom flavors for tablets. One will be based on the PC Pine Trial chip and aimed at Windows tablets. The other will be based on Moorestown and while it will have an x86 instruction set, these processors will not be for Windows. This part will be in the Atom and MeeGo tablets.