Toshiba Corporation announced three new SD flash cards, including the world’s first 32-gigabyte (GB) memory card in this high density. Alongside the 32GB SDHC card, Toshiba also announced a 16GB SDHC card and an 8GB microSDHC card. All the new cards meet the Class 4 specification in the SD Speed Class, enabling them to deliver the high level performance and functionality essential for advanced mobile phones and other personal digital products. What the Class 4 specification does is to guarantee you a minimum sustained data write of 4MB/s for all the tree new high-capacity models with up to 6MB/s maximum write speed.

Have in mind that: SDHC Memory Cards can only be used for devices that support the SD Memory Card Ver2.00 standard. SDHC Memory Cards are not backward compatible with standard SD Memory Card slots, as the file formats differ!

The 16GB SDHC card will be available worldwide from October, and the 32GB SDHC card and 8GB microSDHC card will be launched worldwide in January next year. The expected prices of the products are still unknown…

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SanDiskrolled out the sleek SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition USB Flash Drive. A tribute to Ducati’s distinctive Italian design and engineering, the new drive has the same glossy red chassis and black trim as the Ducati Corse team motorcycles now racking up victories on the MotoGP circuit.

The true “Ducatisti,” as aficionados of Ducati motorcycles call themselves, will appreciate the attention to detail in the SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition USB Flash Drive, including the Ducati Corse logo on top of the drive and the red tail light that illuminates whenever the drive is inserted into the USB.

On the inside, the drive offers a generous 4 gigabytes (GB) of capacity and front-of-the-pack read and write speeds of 20 megabytes per second - the fastest of the SanDisk portfolio of consumer USB drives. In other words, there isn’t a long wait to fill the drive’s big … [ Read the rest of the story ]

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The USB Flash Drive Wrist Band is a fashionable and stylish mass storage device. It is shockproof and waterproof so you can wear it wherever you go and your data and information will be safe and sound. And when you need access to the date stored on the wristband just plug it into the USB port and you’ll be ready to view and change the information stored on the 512MB drive.

These stylish worst bands are made from flexible rubber that is soft and comfortable to wear all the time. And since the data stored on the USB drive inside the wristband is always protected you won’t have to worry whatever you do…

The USB Flash Drive Wrist Bands are available in Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Orange and Purple and are priced at $25.

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What would you say for a big, fat access point with a few large antennas and a bunch of Wi-Fi cards that automatically connect to the strongest wireless signals it can pick up. Then the device will combine all these signals into one FreeLoading Broadband Canal available to the user… and that is exactly what the Slurpr is supposed to be capable of.

The idea of Slurpr is to combine all the traffic from its six wireless network interfaces into one big connection which could be retransmitted into one powerfull new connection. And considering the ruter is equipped with six wireless cards capable of up to 108 Mbps each this could get you a combined speed up to 648 megabits, but only in the best possible situation. And considering you have nine 100 Mbit/s Fast Ethernet ports you can’t get more that a 100 Megabits per user, but you connect a few PCs with a cable you can utilise more of the available bandwidht (that is if you can … [ Read the rest of the story ]

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Power Quotient International Co., Ltd. (PQI) officially announced a 256GB SSD Turbo+ DiskOnModule flash-drive that uses Serial ATA interface and 2,5-inch form factor. PQI’s 256GB SSD Turbo+ features transfer rates of up to 60MB/sec and is currently only available as industrial storage option. No product price for end users is yet available and this product itself may not become available to end user.

With growing popularity of flash drive hard drive due to SSD’s shock proof, high stability and low power consumption properties, SSDs have made it’s debut in some of the world’s renown PCs replacing traditional hard drives. Apart from the advantages described, SSDs also have longer average data storage time of 10 years and faster seek times compare to traditional hard drive read / write heads. PQI expects SSD to become the hard drive of the future and in 2008, SSD may replace up to 30% of traditional hard drive market.

- More information about 256GB PQI 2,5″ S-ATA SSD Turbo+…

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