OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and flash-based storage as an alternative to hard disk drives (HDDs), today announced that enterprise solid state storage provider WhipTail Technologies will utilize OCZ’s premium solid state drives to meet its customers’ needs for ultimate productivity in conjunction with its solid state storage appliances. By teaming with industry leaders such as WhipTail that combines its own software innovations with cutting-edge hardware, OCZ continues to leverage its SSDs across various applications while meeting the needs of mission-critical systems and IT environments.
“We are proud to support WhipTail with our enterprise class OEM SSD products,” commented Ryan Petersen, CEO at the OCZ Technology Group. “WhipTail’s unique Racerunner solution takes full advantage of all the benefits of solid state drives to provide their customers with an exceptional storage appliance that gives their customers a competitive advantage.”
“OCZ’s OEM division has provided an excellent product built to our specifications, allowing WhipTail to focus on building a better appliance, rather than having to build custom SSDs,” said James Candelaria, CTO of WhipTail.
A-DATA Technology, the world leader in DRAM modules and flash memory products, launched the industry first ever combo flash drive N002 that features the dual interface of USB 3.0 and SATA II, designed to maximize data transfer speed to the ultimate. Adopting the industry-leading 8-channel architecture, N002 is able to boost transfer speed tenfold compared to ordinary flash drives with USB 2.0 interface by delivering up to ultra-fast 200 MB/s and 170 MB/s in sequential read/write performance respectively.
Ready to hit the market by January, 2010, N002 makes USB 3.0 a reality. It supports all latest platforms that come with USB 3.0 ports, while also being backward compatible with USB 2.0 ports at a lower speed performance. Available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB, N002 is ideal for users who are thirsty for super-sized storage capacities with unrivaled speed via the innovative USB 3.0 and SATA II dual interface. A combination of speed, storage and portability altogether into one device, N002 is by all means the most effective solution to access and transfer large amount of data, including high-resolution images, multimedia files and whole lot more, at an instant and on the go.
Power Quotient International Co., Ltd. (PQI) announces SDHC Class 10 150X memory card. Perfect for photography loving and professional photographers, it is incompliance with the latest SD 3.0 specifications, Class 10 standard. It features a maximum read speed of 24MB/sec and write speed of 19.5MB/sec which are essential for recording / storing HD contents on modern day digital handheld devices!
PQI SDHC Class 10 150X flash memory card uses FAT32 file format and is available from 4GB~32GB in capacity. Perfect for DSC, DSLR and DV that can record HD contents (such as 1920x1080 60fps Full HD), it provides them with sufficient storage space and instant recording responses so users need not worry about insufficient storage space or having to wait while data is being stored.
Only just a week ago, Power Quotient International Co., Ltd. (PQI) announced two 2.5inch USB 3.0 external hard drives, H566 and S533. Today, PQI releases their first USB flash drive device in the form of Cool Drive U366. PQI’s U366 is encased in an all aluminum shell with a clear plastic lid that can perfectly fit on the end tip so users need not worry about loosing the lid.
The new USB 3.0 features 5Gbps/sec maximum bandwidth, which is 10 times the maximum bandwidth of USB 2.0 as it eliminates the issue of external connection bandwidth being smaller than the output bandwidth of the storage device. This allows portable, ultra fast and high capacity storage device to flood the market as USB 3.0 is deemed to take over USB 2.0 as the standard for future external connections!
Committed to improving end-user experience, OCZ has released a firmware upgrade for its line of Summit Series SSDs, that supports TRIM command for Windows 7 users and idle garbage collection for Vista and XP users. The new firmware helps restore performance on Summit drives back to "new" conditions by freeing space and consolidating blocks of data. OCZ is pleased to finally be able to deliver this essential mechanism and accommodate our Summit customers.
The Summit 19C1 Firmware Upgrade and Installation Guide can be downloaded here.
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