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Super Talent Technology announces the first standard size USB 3.0 flash drive PCBA (printed circuit board assembly).
The need for storage is universal but storage enclosures are not. An entire industry of Custom Flash Drives has emerged to meet the consumers’ needs and preferences. Until now, custom enclosure designs have been relegated to USB 2.0 board and USB 2.0 performance. That just changed.
Super Talent will begin shipping two different USB 3.0 PCBA solutions that fit the most common, 33mm x 14mm, standard. Now these same USB 2.0 enclosures can now be built with USB 3.0 and offer a considerable performance increase.
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BiTMICRO Networks, a pioneer in intelligent flash solid-state drive solutions, is developing a full line up of high-performance, enterprise-class solid state solutions to mark its entry to the high-demand segment of the storage market.
The new breed of storage solutions specific to enterprise computing will include features that will optimize resources and improve drive life required by mission-critical applications. This will address the industry’s need for flexibility on the required performance based on specific application workloads. It will also come with redundancy and recovery mechanisms to provide guaranteed recovery from flash and internal path failures --- providing security for data critical applications. The upcoming storage solutions will be a viable replacement to conventional hard drives in a seamless transition.
BiTMICRO has gone behind the scenes for sometime while busy planning their next move to address the growing demands of the enterprise industry. “We’ve noted a spike in demand of SSDs in the enterprise market in 2010. And their demands are quite varied which led us to explore new technologies using our Research and Development team. It has been a thorough process and we are looking forward to see these technologies work for our clients,” says Rey Bruce, BiTMICRO Networks’ CEO.
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Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced urDrive, a free pre-loaded application available on a variety of its DataTraveler® USB Flash drives. urDrive transforms USB drives from passive storage to engaged, active storage, allowing consumers to easily access and organize their personal files, photos, music, games and videos. A built-in photo viewer and MP3 player makes looking at pictures and listening to music easy.
"USB drives have historically served as digital couriers, transporting data from one device to another. Kingston is taking the lead in transforming the way consumers interact with those devices,” said Craig Tilmont, urDrive business manager, Kingston®. "urDrive enables consumers of all ages to make the USB Flash drive an interactive experience beyond just storing and transferring data between devices."
urDrive enhances security on the PC with Norton™ PC Checkup. The diagnostic tool scans for virus infections (including spyware, worms and adware) and checks for slow performance and risks to identity and data. urDrive further enhances the digital experience with the Maxthon 3 Web browser. Maxthon 3 boasts industry-leading startup and rendering speeds, and architecture that gives users a truly portable, safe browsing experience. All temp files, history and cookies remain on the drive, keeping browsing private particularly on public computers.
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RunCore, a leading supplier of high-performance solid-state drives today announced its new ultra-speed USB 3.0 MoonDrive that will soon be available. USB 3.0 has been a hot phrase in the market because of its portability and ultra-high-speed transmission rate as well as stability, which have won preferences of users.
RunCore’s MoonDrive adopts an enclosure of special plastic material, stunning black for the front also symbolizes its high stability, and the neat design of the enclosure perfectly presents its sense of technology.
Inside of the enclosure, MoonDrive adopts SLC as the storage media, the performance might probably be the best comparing to the similar products in the market -- read and write performance are respectively up to 164MB/s and 150MB/s, which also supports USB 2.0 and 1.1 protocol.
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OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs), today launched the Indilinx Everest-based Octane SATA 3.0 and SATA 2.0 SSD series, striking the ideal balance between capacity, physical size, and speed. In addition to being the world's first SSD to achieve up to a 1TB capacity in a compact 2.5 inch format, OCZ's Octane SSD series combines high-speed data transfer rates with record-breaking access times to provide a superior user experience and improved application performance.
"OCZ has reached an important milestone in the development of its own controller technology," said James E. Bagley, Senior Analyst with Storage Strategies NOW. "The high sustained performance, even with compressed files, the rapid boot feature and high access speeds using SATA 3.0 protocol puts their controller technology in the major league."
"Until now SSDs have been tailored for specific applications, forcing users into a product which maximizes performance for a narrow band of applications, but is significantly lacking in others," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. "The Octane Series solves this problem by providing the highest level of performance across varied workloads including mixed file sizes and mixed compressible and uncompressible data, all while nearly doubling NAND flash endurance."
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PowerColor today introduces all-new multimedia solution, SlingIt, which is designed to help centralize and distribute entertainment to various devices inside your home. SlingIt creates a gateway to wireless entertainment by offering a pair of devices that builds a bridge among multi rooms.
Any devices with HDMI connection can be supported by SlingIt. SlingIt allows users to set up easily by just plugging the transmitter to HDMI source and the receiver to HDTV, and then you can stream Youtube, play games, or share photos with your friends. SlingIt brings incredible HD experience to users with a variety media formats.
SlingIt presents flexible and uncompressed 1080p wireless transmission from desktop PC or notebook to HDTV, users are available to enjoy full 1080p HD video, Blu-ray 3D playback with up to 1920 x 1080 resolution for all HDMI devices. The most important of all, SlingIt transfer HD content without noticeable latency, brings amazing lag-free home entertainment.
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Fixstars today announced their release of the Accelcoder X, the professional H.264 software encoder compliant to Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D standards. With the ExpessAuthoring feature, Accelcoder X dramatically changes the workflow to create a Blu-ray 3D disc at a much lower price than ever before.
Accelcoder X is a Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D standards compliant H.264 encoding software designed for professional use. It provides a fast and full-featured Blu-ray encoding environment at a low cost. As well as the Express Authoring function that enables seamless Blu-ray/Blu-ray 3D disc creation, the newly built-in High quality encoding engine and Enhanced input format support accelerate the Blu-ray disc creation workflow dramatically.
The large-capacity of the Blu-ray disc is suitable as a packaged media, but it can also be used as a media for previews and promotions during the stages of high-quality 2D/3D video production. However, creating a Blu-ray disc requires 2 distinct procedures, which are encoding of the video, and authoring of the encoded data, requiring specialized knowledge, time, and equipment investment.
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Primera Technology, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of CD/DVD and Blu-ray Disc™ Publishers, today announced its Bravo 4051 Disc Publisher (DP-4051 in Europe, Scandinavia and Middle East).
This new model delivers the same industry-leading performance as Primera’s award-winning Bravo 4100-Series which have a 100-disc capacity, but with a 50-disc capacity and a new, lower price of just $2495 (MSRP). The product will be shown at the AES Convention October 21 – 23, 2011 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, NY. Primera’s booth is #730.
Bravo 4051 is the fastest 50-disc publisher available. It prints full-color, 100% coverage discs in just 6 seconds each. This compares to 20 to 120 seconds on competitive machines to print discs with comparable print quality.
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Buffalo Technology today announced the addition of the low cost, single-drive CloudStor Solo to its award-winning CloudStor family of personal cloud accessible storage along with a set of new robust features, available as a free update for existing CloudStor users. The Phase II CloudStor system adds a host of new features such as USB backups, multi-user support and private shares, as well as an all-new user-friendly UI. Free to all existing users, Phase II is pushed automatically to all online CloudStor units as an update, adding unparalleled functionality that goes beyond simple storage for an enhanced portal to freely access and share photos, videos, music and much more with anyone, anywhere through the cloud.
“The over-whelming popularity and success of CloudStor demonstrates that the flourishing consumption of digital content continues to move beyond traditional channels and that simplifying data mobility and accessibility remains a primary focus for consumers,” said Brian Verenkoff, director of product marketing at Buffalo Technology. “With the launch of CloudStor Solo and the Phase II updates, Buffalo has again raised the bar on how consumers manage and share their content.”
Along with a new multi-language user-interface, the expanded CloudStor family now features multi-user access with the ability to set and modify local area network permissions, USB hard drive support for additional capacity or backup on equipped models, significantly improved media features and media playback functionality, as well as Time Machine® support for Mac OS® Lion. Additionally, Phase II includes a redesigned UI for greater ease of use and increased efficiency, system status notifications when errors are detected and RSS support for BitTorrent.
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Synology Inc. today announced the availability of DiskStation DS712+, a high performance and scalable 2-bay NAS server designed for small and medium businesses.
“Synology DS712+ presents tremendous opportunity for SMB owners wishing to have the flexibility of scaling up to a larger storage solution from a smaller form factor. As small businesses grow, so does their data. With Synology DX510 expansion unit, the DS712+ offers a unique solution by scaling up a compact 2-bay NAS server into a 7-bay storage on-the-fly, providing up to 21TB of storage capacity,” said Chad Chiang, product manager of Synology Inc.
Powered by a 1.8GHz dual core processor with Link Aggregation enabled, the read speed of the DS712+ outperforms its predecessor by 60% faster at 180.91 MB/sec and average write speed at 105.59 MB/sec under RAID 1 configuration. To ensure high availability to stored data, the DS712+ features front mount hot swappable drives with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports for failover protection to prevent unexpected service downtime.
