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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.
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RunCore, leading supplier of high-performance solid-state drives, announces the global launch of their Xapear Solid State Disc drive. RunCore's Xapear is a smart USB 2.0 connected SSD solution with RFID protection, allowing you to split your data into a freely accessible partition, and a hidden partition that only becomes accessible by applying a special RFID key to your SSD. Furthermore, the Xapear offers remote data destruction by simply sending an SMS over your GSM from your mobile device to the integrated GSM receiver, which then will immediately start overwriting all your data and thereby deleting all previous content. After successful data elimination the SSD's GSM will send a confirmation SMS to your mobile.
The Xapear comes with two RFID keys, that will be initialized by the users themselves. After this initialization users can use a "public" and a "hidden" partition and define their respective sizes. In regular use the "hidden" partition cannot be detected by others, only once the RFID key is being swiped over the Xapear SSD itself will the "hidden" partition appear. After another swipe this partition will disappear again.
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Seagate Technology, the worldwide leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions, and LaCie S.A., a leading manufacturer of consumer storage products, today announced an exclusive agreement with the intent for Seagate to acquire a controlling interest in LaCie. Seagate has offered to purchase from Philippe Spruch, LaCie’s chairman and CEO, and his affiliate, all of their shares, representing 64.5% of the outstanding shares of LaCie. Following receipt of governmental approvals and the close of this transaction, Seagate would commence an all-cash simplified tender offer (followed as the case may be by a squeeze-out procedure) to acquire the remaining outstanding shares in accordance with the General Regulation of the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).
Seagate has offered Mr. Spruch and his affiliate €4.05 per share in cash, minus a potential adjustment depending on the cash and debt position of LaCie at closing. This price may be increased by a possible price supplement of 3% in the event that the threshold of 95% of the shares and voting rights of LaCie would be reached by Seagate within 6 months following closing, resulting in a maximum potential price per LaCie share of €4.17. Without the price supplement, the offer currently values LaCie at an approximate €146 million, or $186 million total equity value, including acquired net cash of approximately €49 million, or $65 million, as of March 31, 2012. The €4.05 per share price represents a premium of 29% to LaCie’s average closing stock price over the 30 trading days ended May 22, 2012.
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PQI simultaneously announced and globally launched the Air Card Wi-Fi Memory Card today. The PQI Air Card represents the next in wireless revolution that incorporates the latest Wi-Fi technology into a traditional memory card. The Air Card enables "instant sharing" anytime and anywhere without the need for annoying wires or a PC card reader. In a few simple steps, files can be immediately shared with an unprecedented convenience unseen in previous technology.
PQI recognizes that everyone is a world traveler. Following technological advancement, there is an increasing desire to share our everyday lives with friends and family through photo and video journals over the Internet. When combining the PQI Air Card with the latest digital cameras (DSC/DSLR), you can instantly upload files to your preferred cloud storage service.
The Air Card is the only product that features both Wi-Fi connectivity and a microSD card slot with up to a 32 GB capacity and Class 10 support. It supports the Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n interface. Simply insert the PQI Air Card into a digital camera memory card slot to automatically turn on the Wi-Fi along with the camera. This simple technology can also automatically connect to the PQI "AirCard+" app (available in the iOS App Store and Android’s Google Play) on smartphones, tablets, or other mobile devices for instant file sharing with up to three simultaneous connections. Easily share your most precious moments anytime and anywhere with the PQI Air Card.
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Team Group Inc., one of the leading manufacturers of memory products in the world, is expanding the SSD market this year. We are constantly working to improve ourselves in R&D capability. In addition to surpassing ourselves technically, Team Group is now rolling out the new generation power-saving SSD SATA II A1 to cut the power bills and watch out for the pockets of consumers who are suffering the increase of fuel and electricity prices. This is one new serious product with a high C/P value!
SSD SATA II A1 features high-speed NAND Flash as the data storage. The built-in 128MB DDR Cache memory combined with S.M.A.R.T, ECC automatic error correction protection, the supports for WIN7 TRIM Command and the PHISON 3105 controller allows writing/reading speed up to 270MB/s and 210MB/s, respectively, and random writing/reading up to 15000/6000 IOPS. It is a perfect evolution of data transmission speed and completeness. The zero-noise and lower power consumption design gives longer operation time and improved working efficiency for laptop users, making SSD SATA II A1.
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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 7120r and TeraStation 7120r Enterprise, the first in a series of ultra high performance, 12-bay 2U rack mountable NAS and iSCSI storage servers packed with business-class features and advanced functionality. These newest network storage solutions make up the TeraStation 7000 series, the latest storage server family featuring powerful Intel® Xeon® quad core processors, upgradeable DDR3 RAM and configurations that include enterprise-class hard drives, ideal for businesses in need of a cost-effective, scalable RAID-based network storage solution for large networks and business critical applications.
The new TeraStation 7120r Enterprise TS-2RZHD offers 24 TB of high performance, scalable storage featuring the powerful Intel Xeon E3-1275 quad core processor, 8 GB of DDR3 RAM and 12-2 TB enterprise-class hard drives. TeraStation 7120r Enterprise provides exceptional performance and runs many services simultaneously. The quad core processor enables the ability to focus on concurrent tasks with minimal performance degradation: experience maximum network throughput while replication and backup jobs run in the background. TeraStation 7120r Enterprise is packed with business-class features such as Active Directory support, disk quota support, share level replication, quad gigabit Ethernet ports supporting link aggregation up to 4 Gbps, hot-swap hard drives, iSCSI targeting and add-on PCI-Express card support with approved devices.
