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Apple Giving Free Flash Drives to Customers Bitten by the Lion

Apple hit a snag recently when its OS X Lion ended up injuring the hard disk drives of some customers, so the Cupertino-based company decided to make amends by shipping some complimentary flash drive units over to those affected. Software updates are usually a cause to rejoice, but that is not the reaction that t...

5 August 2011
09:03 GMT

Silicon Power Completes Its Latest Flash Drive Unit

Silicon power has completed its latest flash drive unit, one that trades the high speeds of the latest USB interface in favor of a lower, albeit unspecified, price point, though it has other advantages, particularly physical ones.When it comes to the flash drive market, one could say that this segment is one that ha...

5 August 2011
03:23 GMT

PNY Hook Attache Flash Drive On Sale

The USB 3.0 interface may be making the news often, but the fact remains that USB 2.0 is still the dominating presence in this field, as shown by PNY, whose latest flash drive sticks to this legacy technology.The market for USB flash drives is one that has been growing at a very rapid pace and which is responsible f...

1 August 2011
09:10 GMT

Marvel M60 Flash Drives from Silicon Power Use SuperSpeed

Certain upcoming events may have prompted companies to release or at least unveil new and upcoming products, but it looks like Silicon Power did not need this incentive when it put together its new flash drives.Though its composition may be shifting somewhat, the storage market is just as active as ever, and this g...

1 August 2011
03:49 GMT

Green House Creates Metal-Clad, Sturdy Flash Drives

The already large collection of flash drives has now grown by one series, as Green House stepped forward and covered quite the sizable range of capacities, even some that might look out of place in this day and age.The NAND Flash storage technology, like any others, will, eventually, be surpassed by some new inventi...

13 July 2011
08:56 GMT

Verbatim Trumpets Store 'n' Stay Tiny USB Drive

Flash drives are known to be compact by definition, but Verbatim seems to have taken the aspect of miniaturization up to eleven when it designed the Store ‘n’ Stay model, despite managing to cram up to 16 GB of storage into it.When making an USB drive, companies have a choice between sticking to standard...

12 July 2011
04:15 GMT

64 GB Sony Micro Vault P USB Flash Drive Debuts

Being the sort of company that plays multiple game fields at once, Sony has, this once, turned its gaze towards the portable storage industry, having developed a new flash drive unit.All segments of the consumer IT market rely, to some extent, on things being new if consumers are to be goaded into maintaining a stab...

11 July 2011
04:38 GMT

Kingston Digital Completes Development of DataTraveler 108

Coming to add to the already extensive line of DataTraveler storage devices, the DataTraveler 108 from Kingston Digital is ready to start its journey towards the homes of consumer based in Europe.Makers of storage solutions never really do seem to forget about any facet of the industry for long, even those that also...

29 June 2011
11:05 GMT

Lexar Media Ships Encrypted Echo MX and ZX Flash Drives

When it comes to flash drives, they can perform a number of tasks and fill various roles, and it looks like Lexar went for secure backup when it built and sent out the Echo MX and ZX models.Lexar Media, being the maker of memory and NAND Flash storage devices that it is, was, naturally, not going to let too much pas...

14 June 2011
10:14 GMT

Super Talent USB 3.0 Drives Get Faster Than Ever

It appears that Computex did not go by without Super Talent revealing its newest flash device, although one can safely say that what it delivered doesn't exactly perfectly fit into the flash drive or SSD categories.At first glance, the USB 3.0 Express RC8 is a flash drive like any other, but there is a reason w...

3 June 2011
05:28 GMT

Sharkoon Flexi-Drive Gets Officially Launched

It appears that Sharkoon doesn't feel like letting this week go by without some sort of product announcement, so it isn't really that big a surprise to learn of a new flash drive series.The market for USB flash drives is one that grew quickly, exponentially even, during the first months of its life.Basical...

1 June 2011
07:38 GMT

Super Talent USB 3.0 Express DUO 2CH Flash Drives Up for Sale

With all the new storage units coming out, it is not longer any surprise to hear that a flash drive has finally made its way out of its maker's, in this case Super talent, labs.The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard is definitely assuming its role as new mainstream Universal Serial bus interface.Of course, given the f...

23 May 2011
11:07 GMT

Kingston Announces DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G2

Kingston has long been a maker of NAND Flash-based storage solutions, and it looks like this instance is one where its skills got put to use in the fashioning of a new series of USB 3.0 flash drives.Since every company on the IT market is always working on some new device or another, it was not surprising to learn t...

19 May 2011
11:02 GMT

Corsair Flash Voyager Ship, USB 3.0 Goes Out in Force

Corsair, being the maker of PSUs and memory solutions that it is, isn't about to stay silent for any extended period of time, in this case having started to sell a certain flash drive that was more or less overdue.Flash drives generally have the same function, which is to act as a compact, easy to carry means o...

19 May 2011
08:25 GMT

Team Group Presents New Flash Drives

Team Group, as always, is working on some new flash-based storage solution or another, so it is not so surprising to hear that it has brought forth some new flash drives, dubbed the SR1 and SR3 series, respectively.As always, new NAND Flash-based storage solutions are being developed all the time, especially now tha...

13 May 2011
10:15 GMT

PortaStor from Aleratec Is a Secure USB 2.0 Flash Drive

Secure USB flash drives may not be overly widespread on today's market, but they definitely pull their own weight in the hands of business users or anyone who wants to keep their files safe and sound, and Aleratec just delivered one such device.Secure flash drives can be either physically enduring, equipped wit...

13 May 2011
05:54 GMT

Traveling Disk U281V Is PQI's Newest USB 3.0 Flash Drive

It looks like thing on the NAND Flash storage market are moving along as always, with one of the most recent developments involving a certain company known as Power Quotient International.The market for flash drive units can only grow more as better chip and connectivity technologies get developed.While things on th...

12 May 2011
10:08 GMT

25$ Flash Drive Is Really a PC with HDMI, Jaws Drop

There have been many announcements dealing with laptops or mini desktops that claimed to strike a new compactness record, but there is no doubt that all of their bluster has been blasted into dust by the small device that David Braben came up with.Products aimed at students aren't an oddity at all on today'...

6 May 2011
10:31 GMT

New Team Group Flash Drives for Students Are Small and Light

Team Group has been dealing in RAM and NAND Flash memory for a long time and it looks like it just completed a pair of devices belonging to the latter category and aimed at students.By now, it has become clear that highly-portable, NAND Flash storage devices have become something of a common commodity among consumer...

5 May 2011
08:17 GMT

PQI Gives a New Meaning to Small USB 3.0 Flash Storage Devices

Whenever they make a new device, companies are especially ecstatic if they can get their new products to be the best at something or the first to achieve a certain feat, and PQI has just done something along these lines.When thinking of NAND Flash storage, there are several devices that spring to mind, two of them m...

4 May 2011
03:40 GMT

Silicon Power Releases the Blaze B10 Flash Drive

There is no question that NAND Flash memory has been growing in popularity ever since it started off, so it is no surprise to find that Silicon Power has created yet another USB flash drive unit.Silicon Power is one of the companies that deals in NAND Flash-based products and it commonly faces off against the likes ...

21 April 2011
09:38 GMT

Verbatim Store 'n' Go Line Also Sees a New USB 3.0 Flash Drive

Apparently, unleashing new solid state drives is not the only thing that Verbatim has been up to, as the company has also been hard at work in developing a very new, very blue (mostly) flash drive.The color blue has been a popular choice of man in the making of anything ever since ancient history, being a calming p...

20 April 2011
08:20 GMT

Kingston DataTraveler Flash Drive Has Government-Level Security

Kingston's DataTraveler brand is one that many different flash drives bear, and it seems that the latest to be sold under is is a model that features a particularly high level of data security.Flash drives come in a very wide variety, depending on not just their size, shape and capacity, but also on performance...

19 April 2011
05:19 GMT

Brando Flash Drive Is a Yellow Padlock

Padlocks usually serve to let one lock a door or gate or any container, maybe with the aid of chains or ropes or some such, but it looks like the one invented by Brando isn't exactly intended for this sort of thing.When seeing any sort of storage unit shaped like a utensil employed for safety in real life, one ...

12 April 2011
11:05 GMT

Active Media Products Designs Two DOM Flash Drives

Even though the words flash drive usually act as the name for those small, stick-like storage devices one plugs into an USB port, there are other sorts of flash devices, such as DOM, two of which were just unveiled by AMP.Active Media Products is one of the multitude of companies dealing in storage units based on NA...

12 April 2011
03:51 GMT

New Flash Drives Have Antivirus and Data Encryption

Data security is a growing concern on today's market, especially on the business, enterprise and government fronts, so Green House figured it might capitalize on this with its newest flash drives.If anything can be said about Green House, it is that its has been quite active recently, especially as far as flash...

6 April 2011
04:02 GMT

Green House PicoDrive Flash Drive Line Gets USB 3.0 Members

Green House is one of those companies that doesn't deal in overly many sorts of devices but, on the other hand, makes sure that what it does sell are high-quality, capable products, its most recent ones having just now debuted.Green House may have unveiled such things as monitors over the years (even an unusual...

5 April 2011
04:29 GMT

Orico USB 3.0 Flash Drive Delivers SSD Like Performance, Exceeds 160MB/s Barrier

The advent of USB 3.0 has allowed peripheral manufacturers to reach some impressive transfer rates and Orico is taking full advantage of this technology in its latest series of flash drives, as these are able to reach read speeds in excess of 160MB/s, which makes this drive faster than some entry-level SSDs. Not s...

1 April 2011
07:59 GMT

RAVENAlert Detects Emergencies, Now Stores Data

The need for higher security some time ago prompted the creation of a certain device called RAVENAlert, and it looks like the company behind the creation of the devices has now added extra functionality.Nowadays, it looks like security measures are getting tighter and more sophisticated around many venues.Granted, t...

31 March 2011
10:27 GMT

I-O Data Announces Portable HDDs and New USB Flash Device

It looks like the recently unveiled external storage device from I-O Data is only one of the products that the company has prepared, as there are actually two others that got officially introduced.When it comes to storage devices, I-O Data is one of those companies that arguably has a tendency towards releasing mult...

31 March 2011
05:08 GMT

Green House Gives Lots of Storage to Flash Drive Seekers

Green House is one of those companies that deals in various things, although the Universal Serial Bus interface somehow sees much use in its devices, although it is no surprise this happened in its new flash drive unit.The USB connection is one that almost every IT product out there is equipped with these days, espe...

29 March 2011
03:26 GMT

Steampunk Cufflinks Are Wearable USB Flash Drives

Whoever watched any sort of spy movies will know of all the strange shapes technology might ever take, and it seems like Steampunk figured it was time to make some of those gadgets a reality.Normally, an USB flash drive is a small device, shaped like a stick/rod or cube/rectangle that somehow includes an USB port in...

18 March 2011
11:57 GMT

Patriot Supersonic Magnum Is a 200 MB/s Flash Drive

It would appear that solid state drives aren't the only sort of storage devices getting serious in terms of speed, as Patriot also delivered a very fast flash drive that, besides shattering transfer rates, has a high storage capacity as well.Those that have been paying attention to the IT industry lately will p...

2 March 2011
03:21 GMT

32 GB Flexi-Drive Extreme Duo Flash Drive Released by Sharkoon

It appears that, instead of launching some new device line, Sharkoon decided to, instead, build on the popularity of an already existing product collection, that being the Flexi-Drive Extreme Duo series of flash drive units.Those consumers keeping an eye out for what has been happening at the CeBIT trade show in Han...

1 March 2011
11:06 GMT

Green House PicoDrive Dual Pro Is a New Flash Drive Family

Green House has been making NAND Flash-based storage solutions for quite a while, and it appears that its product portfolio just grew in size, now that the newest PicoDrive series of flash drives has made it out of its labs.It appears that, even with all the fuss about the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard, companies are ...

28 February 2011
08:31 GMT

JEDEC UFS Standard Enables 300MB/s USB Flash Drives

It seems that the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has been hard at work on the development of a new standard capable of pushing flash drive units forward by quite a bit in terms of transfer speeds.Being the organization that it is, JEDEC is constantly working on new ways of boosting the storage capacity and...

25 February 2011
04:30 GMT

Mach Xtreme Offers ASUS-Certified FX Series USB 3.0 Flash Drive

It seems that IT companies are doing their best to push the USB 3.0 standard closer to the mainstream, and Mach Xtreme seems to have chosen a method involving a new model for the FX USB3.0 collection.It would appear that Mach Xtreme is one of those companies that would like the Super Speed Universal Serial Bus 3.0 s...

23 February 2011
08:39 GMT

Super Talent Ships DataGuardian USB Flash Drive

Super Talent may have unveiled the DataGuardian secure flash drive unit a short while ago, but it seems that the company is ready to send them over to consumers' doorsteps.Flash drives may have started out as not overly impressive, as they didn't, at first, have too great a storage capacity.Still, with the...

23 February 2011
04:33 GMT

Hagiwara Sys-Com Vaccinates Industrial Systems via USB

Those system builders and administrators looking for a quick and easy way to purge all viruses from a system will no doubt be interested in learning that Hagiwara Sys-Com came up with a portable virus detection tool.Typical anti-virus software is good for safeguarding office computers and the like, but they can'...

22 February 2011
10:03 GMT

Transcend JetFlash 560 Is a Fashionable Flash Drive

When making any sort of new product, companies do their best to put in some feature that can make it stand out from the rest, and Transcend figured it may as well play with the design a bit when it put together its newest flash drive.Over the past week, most consumer attention has been focused on the Mobile World Co...

18 February 2011
10:34 GMT

Kingston and BlockMaster Partnership Yields SafeConsole-Equipped Flash Drive

Kingston and BlockMaster decided, some time ago, to pool their resources and create better storage units, particularly some with high security value, and it seems one such flash drive has finally been officially introduced.There are multiple ways to make a storage device capable of keeping the data stored on it safe...

15 February 2011
06:18 GMT

EMTEC S100 Is a Very Small USB Flash Drive

The USB 3.0 interface may have become a major asset for any new external storage solutions, but EMTEC decided not to implement it in its newest device, focusing, instead, on compactness.On the market for USB flash drives, there are products of many shapes, sizes and colors, not to mention performance parameters.Depe...

28 January 2011
08:40 GMT

Mach Xtreme Technology Readies New USB 3.0 Flash Drive, MX-GX

Since the USB 3.0 standard is, of course, proving to be very popular, it is not surprising to hear that yet another flash drive equipped with it has made the headlines, this time courtesy of Mach Xtreme.Mach Xtreme has been in the flash drive business for years and, naturally, it is not about to stop developing such...

25 January 2011
04:55 GMT

LaCie and Christofle Pebble-Shaped Silver Flash Drive is Hand-Crafted

It seems that, even with all the myriads of new miniature storage units, some companies still take the time to create items that truly stand out, some even through truly unexpected means.When making any sort of technological product, all it takes to make it stand out, so to speak, is to change something about it eno...

20 January 2011
10:33 GMT

Three New Buffalo Flash Drives With Hardware Encryption Inbound

It appears that yet another company is testing its multitasking ability, although unlike Gigabyte and I-O Data, Buffalo is mostly sticking to the same market, having now prepared new flash drive units. Just a short time ago, Gigabyte and I-O Data both proved that they can tackle two markets at the very same time.I-O...

19 January 2011
06:55 GMT

AMP Key-3 and Key-4 Flash Drives Released

There are various ways one can make a certain product stand out, but flash drives don't really have a variety as large as other product types, so Active Media Products had to experiment with different shapes.Many things can be said about the flash drive market, especially about its evolution over the past coupl...

10 January 2011
08:51 GMT

Transcend JetFlash 700 Are Fast Flash Drives with USB 3.0

Since the first days of a new year are always packed with product announcements, Transcend, of course, would not fall behind on its own releases, so it once again leveraged the hype surrounding USB 3.0.As end-users know, the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface standard is the latest iteration of the Universal Serial Bus sp...

4 January 2011
06:29 GMT

New USB 3.0 Super Talent Flash Drive Has 32GB Capacity

Super talent once again broke its silence in order to step up and announce that a certain series of flash drives has now grown with the addition of one member, which is fast and more capacious than its siblings.Since capacity and speed are the two things that define a storage device, it makes sense that Super Talent...

28 December 2010
07:39 GMT

Green House Also Delivers a New PicoDrive N Flash Drive

While the new memory cards will definitely earn Green House points for unusual ideas, the company did more than just release those, having also updated an existing series of flash drives, the PicoDrive N to be exact.Green House seems to be experimenting on the market with what can happen when it leaves the norm just...

16 December 2010
05:07 GMT

New Kingmax Flash Drives Are Capless and RoHS Compliant

Kingmax figured now would be as good a time as any to introduce its newest collection of flash drive units, so it issued a press release in which it details the PD-30 and PD-33 lines.Since it already has a bunch of different flash drives on sale, Kingmax figured it would make its newest lines varied both in terms of...

15 December 2010
09:59 GMT


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