The TV, DVR and External Storage or client non-compute applications are storage solutions designed for consumer electronic devices such as media recorders and disk drives used for external storage such as a portable external disk and network-attached storage.

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It involves giving television sets and other entertainment devices a network connection, a hard disk drive and the ability to connect to broadband Internet connections.

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As I have previously written, the increased demand for disk drives for cloud and network storage is not likely to produce enough new profits to offset the decline in the PC market.

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Runner-up: The Maxtor Shared Storage Plus represents the wave of the future of network storage, combining left-brain network backup with right-brain media serving with the hard disk already inside.

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Since its acquisition of Isilon in late 2010, EMC has made making significant progress in the network attached storage market, a fast-growing segment of the networked disk storage market.

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If the demand from cloud and network storage was anywhere near close to the projections of some of the bulls on disk drive stocks, EMC stock should have been up over 100% but instead it has languished.

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Using the included IR remote or the REDRAY iOS application (available from the Apple App Store), users can connect to REDRAY via wireless network to select and manage their 4K and HD content, stored on the internal 1TB capacity hard disk drive.

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