EDGE Tech Corp, a leading U.S.-based supplier of DRAM and flash memory upgrades, portable computing products, storage devices, and other experience-enhancing technology solutions, launched a variety of products including two new flash drives to its established DiskGO™ line—one with increased capacities, and the other with a sleek, new design—as well as two DiskGO™ portable hard drives with backup software.

EDGE’s mega high-capacity 128GB DiskGO Flash Drive stores approximately 85,000 photos, 128 hours of video, 32,000 MP3s, or 1,280,000 documents. The drive is housed in a rugged aluminum casing that provides protection against wear and tear. It includes CryptArchiver Lite encryption software, a trial version of CryptArchiver which allows users to encrypt up to 25MB of data using 128-bit AES encryption. The full version of CryptArchiver, available at www.edgetechcorp.com/support, encrypts up to 32GB of data. Exceeding the U.S. government standard for encryption strength, this robust version allows users to choose which cipher method they prefer: 256-bit AES or 448-bit Blowfish encryption. Supported by a lifetime warranty and toll-free technical assistance, the 128GB DiskGO Flash Drive is USB powered, and plug and play; there is no need to restart your computer to begin use.

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Delivering on the specialized requirements of the Mac community, Seagate today introduced an advanced line-up of mobile and desktop FreeAgent for Mac storage solutions and accessories: the FreeAgent Go™ for Mac USB, FreeAgent Go Pro™ for Mac, the 2TB FreeAgent Desk™ for Mac and FreeAgent Go Dock+™, a powered USB hub and dock for the FreeAgent Go drive. Providing a complete storage toolkit for today's creative professionals, such as web designers, musicians and graphic artists, as well as multimedia enthusiasts, these enhanced FreeAgent for Mac external hard drives each include performance and capacity improvements to help store, record, protect and share creative inspirations. 

“Performance is all that counts when I record,” said Rami Jaffee, award-winning keyboard player for the Wallflowers and Foo Fighters. “I can depend on Seagate hard drives for quality and convenience. When recording, a song could take up to a few gigabytes, but the fact that I can have a whole record ready for me to attack and record on a slim external hard drive is so convenient that its value is immeasurable.”

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WD®, the world's leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its newly redesigned My Book World Edition II dual-drive network storage system in capacities of up to 4 TB. With the double protection of two Mirrored (RAID 1) drives and continuous backup software, the My Book World Edition II network storage system provides an extra-safe place for users to back up and store the data and digital media from all the computers on their network in one central location. Available now at select retailers and the WD online store, the new dual-drive systems join the recently introduced (Feb. 2009) My Book World Edition and are compatible with PC and Mac® computers.

According to a July 2008 report by research firm Parks Associates, the number of households worldwide with data networks will grow from around 170 million in 2008 to 240 million by year-end 2012. The firm also reports that the average broadband household will see its digital media storage needs grow to nearly 900 GB by year-end 2012. In addition, consumers indicate that the most important feature for a network-attached storage (NAS) device is the amount of available storage. With its massive 4 TB capacity, the My Book World Edition II network storage system will serve this rapidly growing need for home data storage.

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Pioneer Corporation and Sharp Corporation today signed a formal contract for the establishment of an optical disk joint venture.

The goal of the new joint venture is to make more effective use of the management resources of the two companies in the optical disk business field, and to further expand the business in this area, especially in the highly promising Blu-ray Disc market. The new company will develop, design, manufacture and sell optical-disk products such as optical disk drives, recorders and players.

Pioneer and Sharp plan to launch operations at the joint venture on October 1, 2009.