I’m always annoyed when I have to check my USB flash drive’s free space with a few mouse clicks. As a winner of the Innovations award at CES 2007, Lexar’s JumpDrive Mercury really makes life easier for us. Why didn’t any other manufacturer think of what Lexar did – to equip USB flash drive with a capacity meter that lets you monitor its space usage?
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The Turbolinux Wizpy is not only a Linux based portable media player that plays MP3, Ogg, WMA, AAC and DivX formats, it’s also a portable Linux drive which lets you plug and boot into Turbolinux’s own Linux OS—Turbolinux FUJI on any PC.
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If you have too much money in your bank account to spend, and you always need to transfer large amount of files from place to place, you should consider getting a Kanguru Flash Drive Max USB flash drive. Storage capacities from 16GB to 64GB are available, and the high price tag starts from US$745.
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Other than the foldable Ultra II SD Plus card with USB connector, ScanDisk has also introduced their new Extreme III series CompactFlash cards. The ScanDisk Extreme III CF cards will be available in the capacity of 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB, with retail price of US$99.99 – $279.9 for 1 – 4GB and $559.99 for 8GB.
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ScanDisk just announced their new 2-gigabyte Ultra II SD Plus memory card at the annual Photo Marketing Association Show. This foldable SD card is similar to the Japanese product YouSD II, which serves as a normal SD card, as well as a micro portable storage device as it comes with a high-speed USB2.0 connector. Indeed it comes with a design that’s more convenient for the users, comparing with the cap cover design of YouSD II.
The 2GB ScanDisk Ultra II SD Plus features up to 9 MB/s write speed and 10 MB/s. It will be available in June at around US$135.
Via: BUSINESS WIRE
Pretec today introduced the new Pretec 133X CompactFlash card, which is the world’s fastest CF card. The 133X CF card is capable of running at up to 20MB/s read speed and 14MB/s write speed. These new access speed greatly optimize the continous shooting function of digital cameras as it lowers the set-up time between pictures. Pretec 133X CF card will start volume shipping by March.
Source: Pretec Press Release
Computer data and media files are getting more and more portable thanks to the releases of larger USB flash drive. There are already secured USB flash drive with finger print authentication to prevent unauthorized access of your data by human. What about unauthorized access by computer itself, such as computer virus, spyware and adware when you’re accessing your USB flash drive on someone else’ computer? With that thought in mind, IOCELL (Korea) recently launched the VaccineDrive USB flash drive with embedded anti-virus engine.
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