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Today LaCie announced the unveiling of a significant Thunderbolt technology demonstration at the Intel® booth (#M0410) during Computex 2011, from June 1-4, in Taipei, Taiwan. The demonstration will showcase multiple LaCie Little Big Disks Thunderbolt Series in a daisy chain, delivering speeds up to 835MB/s – the fastest performance achieved by any mobile storage solution.
A perfect configuration for video professionals and demanding users, the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series is the first peripheral to showcase daisy chain capability between a high-end display and multiple storage devices, with no compromise in performance. For example, a professional display such as LaCie’s 324i, together with up to five additional hard drives can deliver enough bandwidth to support several 1080p uncompressed streams of HD video in Final Cut Pro. Even better, professionals can connect to the entire configuration with a single Thunderbolt cable.
This kind of speed development is unheard of in mobile storage devices. Now, with the Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series, professionals can handle projects that were previously tied to server rooms, in the palm of their hands. With the Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series, high-end studio editing is now possible on the go.
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Small enough for transit, ample storage space for large files and SuperSpeed for rapid data access - Sharkoon raises the benchmark for USB 3.0 sticks a little higher and presents in time for Computex another model in their high-performance segment: The Sharkoon Flexi-Drive Ultimate achieves sequential read rates of up to 200 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 120 MB/s. Storage capacity is available in either 64 GB or 128 GB.
The Sharkoon Flexi-Drive Ultimate uses a powerful Single Chip USB 3.0 Controller and four eight-channel controlled MLC storage cells. The memory stick is in a high-quality, black aluminium case with a protective cap and keychain eyelet, measures 79 x 27 x 9.3 mm, weighs 40 grams and supports the operating systems Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32 and 64 Bit), Mac OS 10 as well as Linux.
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SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today announced that ASUS has selected the U100 drive for use in the new UX Series ultra-thin notebook. The drive's flexible, cost-effective SATA III performance and low power consumption allows ASUS to deliver a sleek, powerful notebook with a long battery life.
The recently announced U100 drive builds upon the successful SanDisk® P4 modular SSD series, which is widely used in ultra-thin notebooks and other mobile computing platforms. The ASUS UX Series notebooks measure 0.3cm to 1.7cm thick and weigh only 1.1kg while providing remarkable performance with a SATA III SSD, Intel® core CPU and Instant-On technology.
"SanDisk tailored their SSD to meet our specific needs and then helped us optimize the drive in our new UX Series notebook," said S. Y. Shian, corporate vice president and general manager, notebook business unit, ASUS. "SanDisk's U100 drive allows our notebook to achieve the thin size, fast performance and long battery life needed to produce an enjoyable user experience."
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OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, announces the Company has set a new benchmark of 1 million 4K write IOPS with a Z-Drive R4 equipped 3U Colfax International Server based on a Supermicro platform, which features 7.2TB of MLC storage.
As the fastest performing single server solution on the market, this Z-Drive R4 equipped platform significantly accelerates demanding transactional workloads and reduces latency across a broad array of enterprise applications.
"The Z-Drive R4 enables our data center clients to maximize performance in the industry standard 4K file size, and this achievement with Colfax International demonstrates the raw performance benefits and latency reductions that OCZ PCIe SSDs can deliver over multi-terabyte device densities in a single 3U server," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology Group. "We are proud to enable our clients to deliver servers and storage arrays which provide the highest performance, maximum capacity, and lowest latency available to data centers today."
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SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today introduced the iNAND Extreme embedded flash drive (EFD), SanDisk's first in a new line of products designed for high-end tablets running advanced operating systems and data-intensive applications. The drive features up to 50 megabyte per second (MB/sec) sequential write and up to 80MB/sec sequential read speeds.
High-performance embedded flash storage can significantly improve a tablet's multimedia synchronization speeds, file-transfer rates and operating system responsiveness. Fast sequential performance is essential when capturing HD and 3D video content or when transferring large files via the high-speed USB 3.0 interface. By selecting the iNAND Extreme EFD for their next-generation tablet designs, OEMs can improve the key performance criteria that produce an enjoyable user experience.
"iNAND Extreme broadens our embedded product line to cover the needs of all mobile market segments, from feature phones to high-end tablets," said Amir Lehr, vice president, embedded business, SanDisk. "We offer OEMs high-quality products as well as the experience and technical know-how needed to optimize our solutions for specific applications and usage scenarios."
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Memoright, an innovative maker of SSDs, today announced a 800GB 2.5″ SSD at Computex Taipei 2011 (31 May – 4 June 2011, Booth No. K709, Nangang Exhibition Hall), the in-house controller and firmware technology providing long life, high-capacity SSD solution.
Memoright will be highlighting the first 800GB MLC SSD solution with 2.5" slim form factor design. The 800GB high capacity SSD is designed specifically for for large-scale users as in the digital cinema, military, professional media, cloud computing server/datacenter and networking with 100% constant speed and In-Drive UPS & Security Erase features. It provides outstanding performance (Seq. Read/Write: 220MB/220MB) for high storage applications which require the utmost reliability and performance.
Also at the booth Memoright will be showcasing its latest SATA III interface FTM Plus and the long-life Infinity series SSD products for commercial and consumer application and the IPC solution which delivers an outstanding balance of system performance and solid reliability.
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SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today introduced two new solid state drives (SSDs) for the mobile computing market. The U100 drive, successor to the popular SanDisk® P4 modular SSD series, delivers a flexible, cost-effective solution for ultra-thin notebooks. The SanDisk® iSSD™ integrated storage device series' i100 drive is the world's smallest, fastest 128 gigabyte (GB) (SATA III) BGA (ball grid array) SSD and an ideal storage solution for slim, powerful tablets and ultra-thin notebooks.
The new SSDs utilize the high-performance SATA III interface to improve application loading times, web-browsing speeds, multimedia synchronization, file-transfer rates and overall system responsiveness. The drives employ a low-power architecture that reduces power consumption to as low as 10mW. This combination of high performance and low power allows OEMs to develop feature-rich products with longer battery life.
"Our deep involvement with key ecosystem stakeholders allows us to align our products with fast-moving market requirements," said Rizwan Ahmed, director, SSD product marketing, SanDisk. "We develop low-power, high-performance SATA SSDs that optimally fit into a growing number of thin client devices."
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The global leader in optical storage solutions, Lite-On gives visitors to their Computex stand the chance to try a pre-release version of MyDisk Suite, their revolutionary integrated disc burning tool for the PC, iPad, & iPhone. Also on display will be their new generation of optical drives including the USB 3.0 eHBU212 12x BD burner.
MyDisk Suite consisting of DiskCollection, DiskIndex, DiskCase, and DiskMobile, was developed after a survey showed that 83% of users hadn’t installed the burning software that came with their drives because of perceived complexity. It hopes to solve this by taking a very different approach that closely matches how today’s social generation actually use disc burners.
The MyDisk suite set of applications for the PC, iPad, & iPhone, requires only a few natural steps to use, but brings together – drag-and-drop disc burning, file/disc indexing, customized autorun menus, personalized disc covers, iOS image burning.
“Lite-On has built our brand by using innovation to serve consumers. When we discovered the difficulties users had with current burning software we knew that we had used this ability to create a solution. MyDisk Suite is the first disc software built to fit with the way the social generation uses burners, customizes, and shares. Its rich, simple-to-use interface integrates PC, iPhone, and iPad”, said Marketing Manager.
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Plextor, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment, will be revealing its distinctive “breathing” SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external solid state drive (SSD), as well as officially launching the Plextor M2S Plus series.
The sleek and small Plextor external SSD combines convenience and capacity – it is compact enough to be carried and is a high performance drive that utilises the SuperSpeed USB 3.0. Its unique wrap-around LED lighting system represents different states and shows when it is being accessed using a range of illuminating patterns that resemble regular human breathing. With this radical and radiant design, Plextor has aimed to reflect the beauty of the drive’s internal engineering with appealing external aesthetics. The Plextor USB 3.0 external SSD will be available in 128GB and 256GB.
Also on display at Computex Taipei, Plextor will feature a new version of the admired and advanced, ultra-fast SATA 6Gb/s SSD, the M2S Plus series. To develop the new M2S Plus series, Plextor worked closely with Marvell to further utilise the drive’s server-grade Marvell 88SS9174 controller and SATA 6Gb/s’ potential, achieving a sequential read speed of 520MBps. The Plextor M2S Plus series was recently released in Australia – RRPs: AU$589 (256GB), AU$305 (128GB), AU$165 (64GB).
Minnie Lin, Marketing Manager at PLDS, said, “The new Plextor external and internal SSD units will provide consumers with the benefits of high speed, stability and long life. With these excellent drives, we are once again demonstrating our commitment to the production of uncompromising, high-quality, high-performance products.”
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KINGMAX, a world renowned leading brand of DRAM and flash memory, has launched the latest 2.5” SATA III SSD. It has the standard SATA III 6Gb/s interface and expanded storage capacity of 512GB. It also supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) which increases the performance and efficiency of SSD by internally optimizes the execution order of commands; thus taking users on a high speed ride. KINGMAX has also introduced a series of SSD with different types, including 1.8” SATA II, 2.5” SATA II, and mSATA, to meet variety of demands from end-users.
KINGMAX SATA III SSD has a maximum read speed that reaches up to 415MB/s and write speed at 260MB/s that significantly shortens the boot up time and also reduces file transfer time for users. In comparison to the traditional hard drive, SSD replaced the motor and rotating disks with NAND flash to store data; this shift to using electronic transfer comes with many benefits such as higher stability, energy saving, noise-free and etc. Moreover, it considerably lowers the malfunction risk and enables users to enjoy a quiet working environment.
