• Dabs store has one of the best selections of electrical goods and home audio products of any UK Electronics store
• The Dabs Online Store has an outstanding collection of unique Electronics products - and the best prices!
• At Dabs, you'll find a strong commitment to great prices throughout
• The Dabs Direct team has an equally strong commitment to making your shopping experience fun - and also very affordable!
• At Dabs Website, as with any Dabs transaction, you'll find well-trained staff committed to quality service

Freecom understands that consumers appreciate easy to install, ready to use, well priced products. Freecom products offer flexibility, connectivity and value that are unmatched by other manufacturers.

PRODUCT FEATURES:

Based on leading Quantum DLT-Technology;

Connection with standard SCSI Ultra320-Interface;

Including DLTSage: monitors drive and media health;

MTBF of 250.000 hours (@ 100% duty cycle);

Compares the data while writing (Read While Write), theoretical no verify necessary;

WORM (Write Once Read Many) support with DLTSage on standard S4 Media;

Backwards read compatible to SDLT600 and SDLT320;

Roadmap with large capacity.

The ProCurve Switch 4200vl series consists of modular chassis that provide a flexible, cost-effective LAN solution as an alternative to stackables. These switches offer a proven chassis form factor with high quality and reliability in 10/100 and 10/100/1000 scalable solutions that integrate easily into any network.

PRODUCT FEATURES:

Quad Intel 64-bit Xeon MP support 1066 MHz FSB

Intel 7300 (Clarksboro) chipset

Up to 192GB DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM

Intel 82575EB dual-port Gigabit Ethernet controller

LSI 1068e dual channel 8-port SAS controller

6x SATA (3 Gbps) ports via ESB2 controller

ATI ES1000 Graphics with 32MB video memory

IPMI 2.0 (SIMSO) slot

Highlights of the SuperMicro Quad Intel Xeon Intel 7300 ATX

• Quad Intel 64-bit Xeon MP support 1066 MHz FSB
• Intel 7300 (Clarksboro) chipset
• Up to 192GB DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM
• Intel 82575EB dual-port Gigabit Ethernet controller
• LSI 1068e dual channel 8-port SAS controller
• 6x SATA (3 Gbps) ports via ESB2 controller
• ATI ES1000 Graphics with 32MB video memory
• IPMI 2.0 (SIMSO) slot

The WatchGuard Firebox X1250e with 1-Year LiveSecurity combines a powerful firewall and VPN endpoint security appliance with expert guidance and support. The X1250e provides small to mid-size businesses with true zero day attack protection and intuitive, centralized management of all security capabilities to streamline network administration. LiveSecurity offers high-value support services including hardware warranty, technical support, software updates, and threat alerts.

The high performance C5000 Series is the perfect solution for businesses wanting to work more productively, print more professionally and keep a tight control over costs.

No two workgroups have exactly the same print requirements, so the C5000 Series has been designed accordingly. The C5950 model is intended specifically for those who print mostly color. There are also several options including extra trays, double-sided printing and enhanced document security.

The model offers a harmonious combination of hardware, consumables and in-box software, as well as PCL/PostScript as standard. This enables printing from a greater range of applications and easier printing of PDF's.

The C5000 Series. Printers with the performance to match the need.

Highlights of the OKI C5950CDTN Colour Laser Printer

• Print Control enables the management of color use and printing costs of each individual user
• Users are able to print confidential documents with ease due to helpful functionality, such as password protection
• Easy to change consumables, with a helpful gauge on the LCD panel clearly showing toner levels
• High capacity mono toner cartridges reduce running costs and user intervention
• Mono running costs are equivalent to many mono only products
• Auto Color Balance ensures consistent results throughout the life of the printer
• Photo Enhance provides stunning photo-like quality on ordinary office paper

Finish jobs quicker using HP's fastest multifunction color laser printer. Give your team the advantage of high-quality color printing with copy, scan and optional fax capabilities in one device. Manage all your printing with HP management tools.

Highlights of the HP Color LaserJet CM6040f MFP - multifunction ( fax / copier / printer / scanner ) ( colour )

• Accelerate through your day
• Easily manage printing and imaging
• Exceptional color quality
• Features that rise above the rest

Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 R2 builds upon the base of the SMS 2003 SP2 foundation to provide a comprehensive solution for change and configuration management for the Microsoft platform. SMS 2003 R2 enables organizations to quickly and cost-effectively provide relevant software and updates to users from Microsoft and non-Microsoft vendors.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended software delivers all the features in Photoshop CS4, plus new features for working with 3D imagery, motion-based content, and advanced image analysis.

Easily access every tool for nondestructive adjustment of color and tone. Quickly adjust specific image areas with easier access to all the tools for creating and editing nondestructive masks.

Now paint directly on 3D models; wrap 2D images around common 3D shapes; convert gradient maps to 3D objects; and add depth to pixel layers, text, 2D shapes, and DICOM frames with volume rendering.

Paint, add text, and clone over multiple frames of an imported video sequence with ease using single-key shortcuts.

Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools, paint settings, and artistic brushes. Simply drag to resize brushes and adjust for hardness as you paint and preview brush strokes.

Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.

Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas.

Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point - with options to preserve tones and colors - into a single color-corrected image.

Extract quantitative information from images with powerful tools that calculate distance, perimeter, area, and other measurements. Record and export data for further quantitative analysis. Even set measurements to the scale in DICOM file headers.

Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models.

Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS4 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more.

Enjoy dramatically enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details. Make precise adjustments with Brightness/Contrast and Curves controls, the histogram, color channel lines, and a clipping preview.

Kingston is the world's largest independent memory manufacturer. In today's performance-driven environment, memory upgrades provide an easy, economical alternative to increase system performance. Every memory product Kingston offers is designed to help you get maximum performance at the best price to you.

This memory is designed for Apple Power Mac G5 1.6GHz.

To minimize downtime, Apple offers AppleCare Service Parts Kit for Xserve RAID which includes a RAID controller module, a cooling module, a power supply, a cable, and a 500GB Apple Drive Module. AppleCare Service Parts Kits let you keep key modules handy to address the most common hardware failures.

Maximize workgroup productivity and increase efficiency at a breakthrough price-performance combination with the HP Color LaserJet CM4730 multifunction printer (MFP) series. Featuring an integrated design that includes the award-winning HP EasySelect control panel, the HP Color LaserJet CM4730 MFP series provides a complete office solution with print, copy, scan-to-location, analog fax and document finishing capabilities in one easy-to-use device. With HP ColorSphere toner, produce professional results - and brilliant color - with every print. Built on the same award-winning platform as the HP Color LaserJet 4730 MFP, the HP Color LaserJet CM4730 MFP is the ideal workgroup-class MFP for enterprises, public sector and medium-sized businesses.

Highlights of the HP Color LaserJet CM4730 MFP - multifunction ( printer / copier / scanner ) ( colour )

• Get more done with a fast first page out, print and copy speeds of up to 30 ppm for colour and black, two-sided printing at full speed, plus colour scanning. Send and receive documents by adding fax functionality with an internal 33.6 kbps analogue fax card[k1]. Facilitate document workflow with embedded send to e-mail functionality, and send to folder and fax with optional HP Digital Sending Software 4[k2]. Professional finishing solutions include a stacker/stapler[k3] and 3-bin mailbox[k4].
• Preserve your budget and still get the functionality you need with this surprisingly affordable MFP which also delivers a low cost per colour page. Control costs when you choose Original HP print cartridges, which feature consistent, high-quality performance that saves your business time and money. Get the benefit of colour with no cost penalty: Colour Access Controls let you monitor colour printing by user or even by application, and choose when and how colour is used in your workgroup
• Use, manage and maintain your device with HP's simple, award-winning Easy Select Control Panel. Take advantage of your MFP's features with an intuitive interface that clearly displays all available applications. Enjoy best-in-class networking through the HP Jetdirect Internal Print Server. Proactively manage your MFP and save valuable IT time with HP Web Jetadmin fleet management software. Original HP Color LaserJet print cartridges with built-in intelligence ensure trouble-free printing.
• [k1] Available with HP Color LaserJet CM4730f MFP, CM4730fsk MFP and CM4730fm MFP. [k2] HP Digital Sending Software 4 is not included, sold separately. Software is server based, server required. Trial included. [k3] Available with HP Color LaserJet CM4730fsk MFP only. [k4] Available with HP Color LaserJet CM4730fm MFP only.

The HP ProLiant DL380, the world's largest selling server, delivers on its history of design excellence with enterprise-class uptime and manageability, proven 2-way Intel Xeon performance, and 2U density for a variety of rack deployments and applications.

Introducing Dual-Core Intel Xeon version of the HP ProLiant DL380 G5 model, for improved server responsiveness, enhanced multi-tasking capabilities and improved performance for your most demanding applications and virtualization projects.

Designed for the new c-Class BladeSystem enclosure, the HP GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch for c-Class BladeSystem (GbE2c) provides a full set of industry standard Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 features, sixteen internal downlinks, five uplinks and two internal cross-connects in a single low-cost blade solution. The GbE2c dramatically reduces cabling, power and cooling requirements compared to stand-alone switches, allowing you to realize the full cost saving capabilities of the HP c-Class BladeSystem.

Canon's EOS 50D bridges the gap between the novice and the seasoned pro with a perfect combination of high-speed and quality. It features an APS-C sized 15.1-megapixel CMOS sensor for tremendous images, DIGIC 4 image processor for fine detail and superior color reproduction, and improved ISO capabilities up to 12800 for uncompromised shooting even in the dimmest situations. It features a refined 3.0-inch Clear View LCD (920,000 dots) monitor, supercharged live view function with Face Detection Live mode, plus a number of automatic image correction settings and HDMI output for viewing images on an HDTV. Pick up the EOS 50D and you'll experience true digital inspiration!

Highlights of the Canon EOS 50D SLR FE-S 17-85mm IS and ES 70-300MM IS U

• 15.1-megapixel CMOS sensor
• Next generation DIGIC 4 image processor
• 3.0-inch Clear View LCD
• Enhanced live view shooting
• 9 cross-type high-precision sensors
• Lens peripheral illumination correction setting
• Updated EOS integrated cleaning system
• Creative auto goes a step beyond full auto with on screen setting display
• HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) output

Designed with the best in Sony's imaging and sound quality, FWD-40LX2F is capable of supporting the highest-level HD Signal, expandable with a Dual Option Slot interface and armed with advanced Network Content Controls, this LCD Display is ready to take your organization to a whole new level of professionalism. In addition, built with improved color control, an expanded multi-display function, and improved digital audio circuitry, the FWD-40LX2F will never fail to surpass your viewing expectations.

Whether for use at home, large-scale businesses or small retail outlets, the Sony FWD-40LX2F LCD Display is a powerful tool of getting the right contents across to your customers.

Highlights of the Sony 40in WEGA LCD black

• High quality image processing
• Network content control
• True color control
• 2 HDMI inputs and dual option slots
• Improved multi display function

AXIS 214 PTZ Network Camera is a high performance camera for professional surveillance and remote monitoring. It combines a high quality color camera with the flexibility of remote pan/tilt/zoom operations. The 18x optical motorized lens with auto focus allows the user to zoom in on a small or distant object with exceptional clarity.

IBM System x3650 servers feature fast Intel processors, which provide greater system performance. With a compact 2U footprint, the rack-optimized System x3650 servers help save valuable rack space and resources. It is packed with highly integrated, advanced server features designed for compute-intensive, web-based, or enterprise network applications, where space is a primary consideration.

Demanding large-format users depend on HP Designjet printers for clear, crisp images with rich true colors and uncompromising image quality - print after print. HP Designjet 500 Series printers are the perfect choice for graphics and technical professionals who want a smart, affordable system for a personal office or small workgroup. The HP Designjet 500PS printer, with a full-featured PostScript RIP, provides detailed illustrations, accurate proofs and powerful presentations for small advertising agencies, designers, and graphic artists.

The DL185 G5 Storage Server is the fast and easy way to add high-density 2U rack-mount networked file storage to your small or medium IT environment. Support for multiple protocols enables you to consolidate to centralized Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution or to create a backup/replication target. A single file/print solution to manage, scale, and secure helps you spend less time and effort on maintenance and management, and industry-standard building blocks protect your investment by ensuring compatibility with your network and applications.

HP Customer Care warranty options let you select the coverage that's right for your business. Enhanced warranty options provide you with an opportunity to upgrade and extend your warranty coverage for even greater peace of mind.

One of the choices to increase onsite hardware repair, installation service and software support for your business is HP SupportPack. HP SupportPack is a cost-effective way to control support costs, gain greater security, and keep your business running smoothly.

The new Canon XM2 camcorder has the latest technology and many useful sound and picture adjustments and enhancements to cater for a variety of shooting situations and preferences. Its highly sensitive 3CCD unit achieves 540 lines horizontal resolution and super low light performance. A new Super Pixel Shift provides a wider dynamic range for movies, reducing vertical smear, and gives 1.7 mega-pixel high-resolution digital photos. The camcorder's professional L-Series fluorite lens provides 35mm and broadcast TV quality. It can deliver extremely sharp images and high magnification with less color aberrations.

An Optical Image Stabilizer keeps the image steady with no loss of quality. And video recordings made with the Canon XM2 will sound as good as they look with the "Direction Accurate" microphone giving accurate stereo ambiance and less mechanical background noise. The microphone frequency has three modes to match recording conditions (normal, voice, windscreen). Manual adjustments on the XM2 include buttons for color and light adjustment, such as Color Phase, Color Gain, Camera Sharpness and Setup Level. Other features are Zebra Pattern, to indicate overexposure, Interval Timer, to record at selected times, and Clear Scan, to record a CRT monitor. A Custom Key can be used to assign functions used frequently. The new Canon XM2 digital camcorder is the ideal choice for recording broadcast or web content, making educational videos or registering an event like a wedding.

ReadyNAS Pro is the most powerful member of the ReadyNAS product family. Designed for small and medium businesses, workgroups and home offices, ReadyNAS Pro delivers class-leading performance, ease of use, and robust features in a desktop small form factor chassis supporting 6 SATA channels and up to 6 TB of storage. This 6-bay Gigabit network attached storage (NAS) appliance is packed with high-end server features, including RAID (redundant array of independent disks) levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and Auto-Expandable X-RAID2 support for data protection against disk failure, system monitoring capabilities and built-in backup. To ensure high availability to stored data, the ReadyNAS Pro features dual redundant Gigabit Ethernet ports for failover protection.

Powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, the ReadyNAS Pro is a powerful NAS for mission critical business data across a variety of different platforms. The high-performance platform coupled with dual Gigabit Ethernet and jumbo frame support provides enough bandwidth to allow more users to access data storage simultaneously.

With an easy Web browser interface and setup wizard, ReadyNAS can be configured with minimal effort - saving you valuable time. Traditional file servers can take hours to configure and, even once up and running, don't have built-in system monitoring and email alerts. Available with ReadyNAS, automatic alerts give you the peace of mind that things are running smoothly because if trouble should arise, you will be notified.

The ReadyNAS Pro utilizes hardware-accelerated RAID to ensure full data redundancy without compromising the system performance. Incorporating Intel Matrix Storage Technology, the ReadyNAS Pro supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and NETGEAR's patent pending X-RAID2, with hot spare capability. With RAID 6, the system ensures data integrity even with 2 simultaneous disk failures. The extra disk bays provided by the 6-bay ReadyNAS Pro makes RAID 6 and hot spares practical options worth considering to prevent any prolonged state in which the ReadyNAS data volume is left in an unprotected state.

X-RAID2 is the 2nd generation of ReadyNAS's proven patent-pending Auto-Expandable X-RAID technology. X-RAID2 automates the volume expansion for you as you scale from 1 drive to 6 drives while keeping your data online. Additionally, as your storage requirement grows, you can replace your disks with larger capacity ones, and X-RAID2 automatically and incrementally expands your storage "vertically. " No other NAS devices in this class can do this without reformatting your disks and shuffling your data back and forth.

A sound backup strategy is important. Relying on manually copying your important files is tedious and error-prone. With CDP (continuous data protection) backup and recovery software, you can set automatic backups of all of your network clients - whether they are Windows or Mac - to your ReadyNAS. Additionally, ReadyNAS includes an integrated backup manager that enables one-button backup from your NAS appliance to external USB HDD for off-site rotation, or to remote servers.

The industrial design and compact desktop form factor of the ReadyNAS Pro makes it perfect not just for small and medium size businesses, but also for departments and work groups. Standing only ten inches tall and seven inches wide, it can fit in any server space or on any desk. ReadyNAS Pro also offers low power consumption and a special energy-saving mode allows you to automate startup and shutdown according to a pre-programmed schedule, in addition to the disk spin-down for regular power saving.

ReadyNAS Pro is a single centralized source for all of your digital data. The variety of computers and hard drives that currently house the data in your office and home can make locating a particular file quite arduous. ReadyNAS can bring all of that data together for fast and easy file serving to multiple clients simultaneously across the local network or via the Internet.

ReadyNAS Pro is the newest and most powerful member of the award-winning ReadyNAS product family. Designed for small and medium businesses, workgroups and home offices, ReadyNAS Pro delivers class-leading performance, ease of use, and robust features in a desktop small form factor chassis supporting 6 SATA channels and up to 6 TB of storage. This 6-bay gigabit Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance is packed with high-end server features, including RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and auto-expandable X-RAID2 support for data protection against disk failure, system monitoring capabilities and built-in backup.

Powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, the ReadyNAS Pro is a powerful NAS for mission critical business data across a variety of different platforms. The high-performance platform coupled with dual Gigabit Ethernet and jumbo frame support provides enough bandwidth to allow more users to access data storage simultaneously.

With an easy web browser interface and setup wizard, ReadyNAS can be configured with minimal effort - saving you valuable time. Traditional file servers can take hours to configure and, even once up and running, don't have built-in system monitoring and email alerts. Available with ReadyNAS, automatic alerts give you the peace of mind that things are running smoothly because if trouble should arise, you will be notified.

The industrial design and compact desktop form factor of the ReadyNAS Pro makes it perfect not just for small and medium size businesses, but also for departments and work groups. It can fit in any server space or on any desk. ReadyNAS Pro also offers low power consumption and a special energy-saving mode allows you to automate startup and shutdown according to a pre-programmed schedule, in addition to the disk spin-down for regular power saving.

ReadyNAS Pro is a single centralized source for all of your digital data. The variety of computers and hard drives that currently house the data in your office and home can make locating a particular file quite arduous. ReadyNAS can bring all of that data together for fast and easy file serving to multiple clients simultaneously across the local network or via the Internet.

The ProCurve Switch 5400zl series consists of the most advanced intelligent edge switches in the ProCurve Networking product line. The 5400zl series includes 6-slot and 12-slot chassis and associated zl modules and bundles. The foundation for all these switches is a purpose-built, programmable ProVision ASIC that allows the most demanding networking features, such as QoS and security, to be implemented in a scalable yet granular fashion. With a variety of Gigabit interfaces, integrated PoE on all 10/100/1000Base-T ports, 10-GbE capability, and a choice of form factors, the 5400zl switches offer excellent investment protection, flexibility, and scalability, as well as ease of deployment, operation, and maintenance.

Brace yourself for the newest 2P half-height blade that provides power-efficient compute power, integrated iLO-2 management, expanded memory and I/O. Make a difference in your data center with HP ProLiant BL460c, which is optimized for space constrained deployments of high performance systems installations. What's more, the BL460c steps up the fault tolerant in a dense platform with mirrored-memory, online spare memory, memory interleaving, embedded RAID capability, and enhanced remote Lights-Out management.

Out in the field or down in the dirt, the durable Panasonic Toughbook 30 is built to take a beating. This brawny workhorse is encased in magnesium alloy, with durability designed into every seal, hinge and connector. Plus, as the industry's fastest fully rugged mobile PC, it's built for lightening-quick processing and wireless connectivity. Communicate in real time from remote areas, access databases online and run sophisticated software applications even in the harshest environments. The Toughbook 30 is vibration and drop-shock resistant.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is the next version of Microsoft Exchange Server, the industry's leading server for e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging. A key technology in Microsoft's strategy for unified communications, which will put people at the center of communications, Exchange Server 2007 has been designed specifically to meet the challenges and address the messaging needs of today's businesses.

Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Edition is designed for large enterprise corporations, and enables creation of multiple storage groups and databases.

With 3500lm, the VPL-CX155 provides outstanding image clarity in the brightest of rooms. Plus, network capability makes it perfect for corporate and educational use. It is suitable for ceiling, rear installation or portable use.

The VPL-CX155 is a really bright performer with its outstanding 3500 ANSI Lumens lamp. Added to this, its network capability lets you easily host remote conferences, transfer data and share information without even being present. And with optional Ziris Manage Lite software, you can also manage and monitor the VPL-CX155 remotely.

The FAX-L2000 offers heavy-duty faxing, with a large memory and paper capacity to meet the most demanding workloads. All with high quality transmitting - as well as easy upgrading.

High-speed performance for heavy-duty faxing - as well as fast network printing and convenient copying - provides unparalleled productivity. All combined with high quality transmission, simplicity and total security for sensitive documents.

The durable design of the FAX-L2000 makes it ideal for rapid and reliable high-volume faxing. The large standard paper capacity of 600 pages reduces the need for constant paper refilling. A huge standard memory of 512 pages stores both your incoming and outgoing faxes. Other time-saving features include dual access - allowing you to carry out different functions simultaneously - and a 70-page Automatic Document Feeder.

Keep your company phone and labor costs down to an absolute minimum, thanks to ultra fast Super G3 transmission. A fallback capability allows full reception of multiple faxes without blocking the line. Up to 200 fax numbers can be stored in memory (72 one touch/128 coded) for faster dialing. Scanning speed is a rapid 1.2 pages per second (A4). Plus an 18 pages per minute printing speed delivers your faxes instantly.

Whether you're faxing fine text, diagrams or even photographs, you can always rely on Canon's exclusive UHQ (Ultra High Quality) technology for superior sending. Ensuring extra depth and clarity for all your detailed work. A high print resolution of 1200 x 1200 dpi offers equally high quality for all incoming faxes.

Up to 50 confidential mailboxes are available - offering users total security for all sensitive documents. Documents can then be received in memory and are only printed out when a password is provided.