Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of its new SuperSpeed Universal Serial Bus (USB 3.0) to Serial ATA (SATA) Revision 3 bridge SoC (system on chip, part number µPD720231) that enables the reduction of the total BOM significantly. The µPD720231 enables effective multi-gigabit per second (Gbps) data transfer between a USB 3.0 host system and a SATA device used in widely adopted external USB hard drives and solid state drives (SSD).

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USB 3.0 technology delivers more than 10 times the data transfer performance of the commonly used USB 2.0 peripheral interface. As the demand for media storage capacities and data transfer speed increases, the µPD720231 offers a fundamental building block to create an improved user experience for external USB storage.

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patriot_supersonic_mini.pngPatriot, a global pioneer in high-performance memory, flash products, storage, and mobile accessories today announces the next evolution in ultra-portable USB 3.0 performance, the Supersonic Mini. Providing one of the smallest USB 3.0 form factors, the Supersonic Mini’s pint-sized performance of up to 80MB/s delivers some serious punch when working with large file transfers.

Offering best in class protection from the elements and heavy mobile use, the Supersonic Mini is housed in an extremely durable rubberized casing. Available in 16GB and 32GB capacities, the Supersonic Mini is plug-and-play ready providing a no hassle solution for those who demand great performance when it counts.

The Patriot Supersonic Mini is fully compatible with Windows® 8, Windows® 7, Windows® Vista®, Windows® XP, Windows® 2000, Windows® ME, Linux 2.4 and later, Mac® OS9, X and later. Backed by Patriot’s award winning customer service, the Supersonic Mini comes with a 2-year warranty.

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RIDATA has just announced the launch of its fashion flash drive SD9. The RIDATA SD9 has a rotating cap-less design, which can be adjusted based on the actual direction required, eliminating the common cluttering issues due to space problem, making it more convenient and handy to use without much obstruction. In addition, RIDATA SD9 can also be used as bookmarks. It can be said to be the most practical, attractive, and ingenious product.

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RIDATA SD9 has a sleek and streamlined body which was designed with asymmetric metal. The drive comes in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB capacities. RIDATA SD9 is available in two colors: the Tiffany blue and simple fashion silver, both of which present an urban, chic look!

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OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced the general availability of the next release of its popular VXL Cache and Virtualization Software.  VXL 1.3 has evolved its synchronous data mirroring capabilities and automatic server failover mechanisms to enable ‘SAN-less,’ highly available, fault tolerant environments based entirely on virtualized host flash.  The ability to provide uninterrupted service for business-critical applications even during severe system failures is a requirement for IT managers of any sized data center, and ideally suited for virtualized database deployments, email servers, or cloud computing applications.

Another innovation in this new version of VXL allows IT managers to pre-load the cache with critical data at pre-determined schedules to ensure that important data is available on SSD flash at the precise time it is required by the application.  This advancement is particularly well suited for business intelligence and data analysis applications, and in particular, for columnar database deployments where the periodic collection of data to a distributed flash cache enables real-time online analysis.  Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) applications benefit as well with the ability to alleviate boot storms or expected peak usage at specific times.

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Among many varieties of memory devices, CF (CompactFlash) cards are very popular for embedded devices in such fields as medical, military, gaming, automotive and POS applications to date due to their cost effectiveness, reliability and stability. The new series of sixth-generation CF memory cards launched by Apacer in 2013 significantly boosts the transmission efficiency up to 115/80MB/second, realizing the speed of SATA interface when compared with its predecessors. The new series also considerably expands its capacity up to 128GB, making it the best choice for industrial computerand automatic storage.

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This new series of CF memory cards takes built-in value-added functions and other features of SLC & MLC as its main axis, and adopts the standard 50-pin connector. The data transfer mode is up to PIO-6, Multi-Word DMA-4 and Ultra DMA-6, all of which are compliant with the CFA 6.0 specifications. Thanks to its PCMCIA-ATA function and compatibility that support 5V or 3.3V power supply, the sixth-generation CF memory cards provide superb convenience in terms of matching with systems and expansion of capacity.

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