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Biwin, an industry leader in flash storage products, today announced the world’s first 10-channel 2.5-inch SATA III (6 Gbits/sec) SSD, the enterprise class NuvoDrive NX, offered in 80GB, 160GB and 300GB capacities.
Virtually all current SATA III SSDs have 4- or 8-channel controllers. The NuvoDrive NX’s is based on an advanced new 10-channel controller that alleviates the issue of flash bandwidth on the SATA III bus for high speed sequential transfers. The 10-channel controller also, for the first time, makes popular 80GB, 160GB and 300GB capacities available in a SATA III SSD.
NuvoDrive NX features a large 256MB DRAM cache to dramatically accelerate random write performance. NuvoDrive NX will deliver up to 80,000 4K random write IOPS for both compressible and incompressible data types. It supports sequential read and write speeds upwards of 500 MB/sec.
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ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules and NAND Flash storage application products, today announced the launch of new Premier Pro microSDHC UHS-I U1 memory cards, which support ultra-high speed transfer, and the latest SD 3.0 standard.
Premier Pro storage products from ADATA are targeted towards professionals, as well as the most demanding end users. These new microSDHC cards follow through in the tradition of this prestigious product family, with support for the latest SD 3.0 standards. Read/write speeds for the larger capacity cards (16 and 32 gigabytes) are 45 MB/second (Read) and 40 MB/second (Write). They also offer up to a staggering 1400/150 IOPs random Read/Write speeds, ensuring high performance while running multiple applications and when working with high resolution media files.
Ray Chu, Product Manager at ADATA, is confident about the future of Premier Pro microSDHC storage: “These cards have the best read and write performance among all comparable products offered by the industry’s key players. When that is combined with the aggressive pricing options in store for this line, the result is going to be a bonanza for our customers worldwide.” The Premier Pro microSDHC UHS-I U1 cards will be bundled together with an SD adaptor, to facilitate transfer of contents to and from users’ personal computers.
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OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today unveiled its new Agility 4 SSD series that delivers an ideal balance of 6Gbps SATA III interface speed, exceptional input/output operations per second (IOPS) performance, and enterprise-grade endurance and reliability all in a value-oriented SSD. Utilizing OCZ’s cutting-edge Indilinx Everest 2 controller platform (first introduced in the flagship Vertex 4 SSD series), Agility 4 SSDs offer a cost-effective alternative to other SATA III SSD solutions in the market making them ideal for mainstream entertainment, gaming, and mobile storage applications.
Powered by its Everest 2 controller platform, the Agility 4 excels in real-world compressible and incompressible workload performance. The series consistently delivers transfer rates of up to 400MB/s, and up to 85,000 random write IOPS.
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Buffalo Technology, a global leader in the design, development and manufacturing of wired and wireless networking and network and direct attached storage solutions, today announced the TeraStation 5000 series of high performance network storage solutions. Following last week's announcement of the enterprise-class TeraStation 7000 series, the 5000 series currently consists of the two-drive TeraStation 5200 and the four-drive TeraStation 5400. Equipped with the powerful Intel® Atom™ D2550 dual-core processor, the TeraStation 5000 series provides supercharged performance and offers an array of business class features including iSCSI, replication and failover support and SoleraTec™ Phoenix RSM™, a video surveillance asset management solution.
"By reducing the complexity and cost of traditional IP video surveillance storage and asset management, the TeraStation 5000 series eliminates many of the barriers businesses face when implementing and running IP-based surveillance," said Matt Dargis, senior director of sales at Buffalo Technology. "This launch proves once again our dedication to delivering high performance solutions that serve the needs of our customers and our commitment to the SMB market."
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As the world leader in storage media, RITEK Corporation will showcase its complete series of Blu-ray discs at Computex, Taipei, from June 5th through June 9th. RITEK offers BDXL Blu-ray discs with multi-layers, high density, and 100GB capacity, to accommodate the growing needs for 3D Digital TV and Blu-ray hardware and software. Also, RITEK will present a series of USB 3.0 storage products and high-speed memory cards.
The increasing penetration of 3D video media has been accelerating the world's demand for storage discs of mega capacities. According to data from Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association (PIDA), the global demand for Blu-ray discs totaled 210 million units in 2011 and is expected to reach 400 million in 2012. The era of Blu-ray has arrived, with the strong demand for high-quality video and audio. RITEK introduced PTM technology from the electronics and optoelectronics division of Industrial Technology Research Institute and successfully cast the fine-recording process for Blu-ray discs. This will speed up RITEK's ramp-up and cost control in the high-end Blu-ray products. In fact, RITEK is the only optical disc manufacturer in Taiwan receiving government support.
In addition to premier Blu-ray products, RITEK will also present 50GB BD-R DL (dual layers) and 25GB BD-R (single layer) at Computex. RITEK's Blu-ray discs are highly compatible, reliable and durable. The specially-designed hard coating ensures the Blu-ray discs are resistant of scratches, finger-prints or dirt. RITEK also offers printable Blu-ray discs, a beautiful and efficient storage media that allows consumers to print out the texts and graphs they enjoy.
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RunCore, the leading manufacturer of high-performance and rugged solid state drives (SSDs), today introduced its latest consumer-grade SSD for ultrabooks and MacBook Air, the Rocket Air SSD.
As moderns laptops are designed ever thinner and lighter to be more energy-saving and easier to carry, demand for improved storage performance is also increasing at the same time. In order to deliver both these advantages, the RunCore Rocket Air SSD is ultra-thin in size, yet provides superb performance. With its internal MLC flash and consumer-grade operating temperature, the RunCore Rocket Air SSD is particularly targeting thin laptops like ultrabooks as well as MacBook Air.
RunCore’s Rocket Air SSDs are almost a half-size of conventional 2.5” SSDs without case. It is also compatible with mid-2011 MacBook Air laptops and offers nearly 4x the capacity of the original factory SSDs. With the SATA III interface and Tier 1 Toggle Synchronous NAND, the RunCore Rocket Air SSD offers data transfer rates of over 500MB/s to cater to the requirements of enthusiasts and users who seek for higher storage capacity and greater performance.
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Computex Taipei, the largest computer exhibition in Asia, will start from June 5 (Tuesday) to 9 (Saturday). This year Team Group Inc. will be showcasing customized industrial-standard products and Z77 platform at the first floor of Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall in front of media and clients from all over the world with a brand new look. Everyone is about to be surprised with what they are going to experience.
In addition to the carefully design, fashion-focused stands, Team Group will not only have brightly colored and themed showcases for product display, but also create a space featuring “technical, creative and people-oriented” exquisite style with installation arts. The exhibition focuses on personal experience of life and brings out the image of Team Group as boutique technology. All intelligent product lines will be shown to give general consumers a whole new charisma of “going beyond intelligent technology!”
With the arrival of high-speed audio/video era and the wide-spreading smart phones, Team Group is constantly working on developing new products to give consumers an experience of unlimited life of technology. This time Team Group is ready to bring down the building with multiple new launches:
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Introducing MyDigitalSSD Bullet Proof 3 (BP3) mSATA III solid state drives for laptops, ultrabooks, tablets, desktop computers and more.
BP3 drives are easy to install SSD upgrades that eliminate the bottle-neck of stock hard drives and double the performance of SATA II drives with R/W speeds up to 500MB/s and 315MB/s respectively; not only increasing productivity but lowering energy consumption and prolonging battery life per I/O.
Want to use a BP3 drive with your existing SATA II applications? BP3 drives are completely backwards compatible and will in most cases peg your SATA II BUS Speeds.
If you've yet to make the move to SSD, then you don’t know what you are missing. If you have, the unmatched price for performance of BP3 drives will make upgrading on a budget - a reality. See our estimated pricing below, pricing may be vary based on retailer location.
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Corsair, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced the immediate availability of the Force Series 3 SSD Notebook Upgrade Kits. The kits, available in sizes of 120 GB and 240 GB, provide users with an easy, affordable way to upgrade their laptops to a solid-state drive (SSD) for improved performance, battery life, and reliability.
Corsair SSDs provide significant advantages over standard hard drives. The solid-state design enables SSDs to deliver faster data read and write speeds which can reduce software load and PC startup times. And because SSDs have no moving mechanical parts, they help laptops run cooler, run longer on batteries, and resist data loss from bumps.
Force Series 3 SSD Notebook Upgrade Kits simplify the process of upgrading a notebook from a hard drive to an SSD drive. The kit includes a USB-to-SATA cable and easy-to-use migration software for transferring existing operating system, application, and data files from an old hard drive to the new SSD. The new SSDs come in a slim 7 mm high case designed to fit in most space-constrained laptops.
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ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules and NAND Flash storage application products, today announced the launch of new Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) and Secure Digital Extended Capacity (SDXC) Ultra High Speed I (UHS-I) U1 memory cards. These latest additions to the company’s Flash storage lineup bring breakthrough performance in speed and capacity, and are expected to strengthen the company’s already formidable Premier Pro memory solutions.
ADATA’s new Premier Pro SDHC and SDXC cards make the most of the UHS-I specification, providing read/write speeds up to 95/45MB per second for the 16, 32 & 64 gigabyte capacity cards. This remarkable transfer performance is combined with data protection features required by expert users, including: X-ray proof construction, resistance to extreme temperatures, error correcting code (ECC) and write-switch protection functions.
According to Ray Chu, Product Manager at ADATA: “The faster transfer speeds of these Premier Pro cards will optimize performance for photography professionals, especially in continuous burst mode shooting and high dynamic range (HDR) imaging capture. Furthermore, they are designed and engineered to ensure reliability and durability of captured images in a variety of digital formats.” The larger capacities of the new cards will mean less need to change cards during long photo shoots. ADATA provides a lifetime warranty for all SDHC and SDXC cards.
