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Dedicated Devices

Reuters has a piece that focuses on the "hotbed of entrepreneurship" that is Boise, Idaho by profiling Dedicated Devices, a startup that is moving into the home server market. ComputerWire notes that Dedicated Devices has raised $2.5m of A1 funding, "led by Highway 12 Ventures and UV Partners, along with angel investors, and private investor Oaas-Laney."

Dedicated Devices' Moeser, who moved to the Boise area from Austin, Texas, made his name as chief technology officer of Micron Electronics, a spin-off of Micron Technologies. The maker of computer memory chips set up operations in Boise in 1978 and has become one of Idaho's great success stories.
Moeser's latest concept, which will be unveiled publicly later this month, involves installing a massive hard-drive brain at the point where cable, Internet and other wiring join in new homes. From there, the 120-gigabyte device would serve up music, film, television shows and family photos to any room in the house and also oversee the home alarm system.

Dedicated Devices says the device will be easier to use and far more robust than computers. The company would not name an exact price, but said it would range in the thousands of dollars, making it more expensive than most computers.

"A massive 120-gigabye brain"? 120GB seems small to me these days if I want to have movies, TV shows, as well as music and personal photos. Am I being unreasonable? Also, would you want to control your home alarm system via your PVR? Not me, thanks.

Land of Potatoes Aims to Be High-Tech Hotbed [reuters]

by Gen Kanai September 13, 2004 in News

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If they're going to price it "in the thousands" then why not go with a Terabyte? At retail you can get four 250G drives for under $600. At the prices they're likely to pay they can probably get the drives closer to $100 each. Toss in a fifth drive and a RAID card and you'll probably still be close to $600 for the storage sub-system.

Posted by: Jeff at Sep 14, 2004 8:52:20 AM

hello
i want information about all dedicated devices used in computer

Posted by: jitender at Nov 4, 2004 7:44:28 PM

First, the "thousands" consists of the server, plus a couple digital players (connects the network to your TV/Stereo). Take a look at www.dedicateddev.com for detailed specs, but basically the "stock" server device is a 120GB storage module (upgradable), an 8 port router/firewall, and a USB host controller (4 USB ports on the side) to further expand the storage by adding USB harddrives. With the DDC server, you can seamlessly connect up to 4 additional harddrives, and it will automatically partition and "assimilate" them into a single storage device.
It also has a very user friendly web interface for accessing your media and configuring the router/firewall.

This is much more than a storage system. It's the central server for the networked home. It's designed to operate 24/7, uses far less power than a PC (and won't heat up the room), is not suceptible to the viruses and crashes of a typical PC and it provides standard router functionality (firewall,DHCP server, DNS server, etc).

Posted by: ddguy at Mar 5, 2005 9:14:59 PM

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