Flash drives have become the little devices that many users just can’t get along without. Having a flash drive on you at all times can be a big deal for many people. Major League Baseball fans looking for a new flash drive will like the new line from Centron Electronics sporting MLB team logos.
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Active Media are becoming known for pairing reasonably performing solid-state drives with reasonably affordable price tags, and that's a combination we can't find much to argue with here at SlashGear. The latest series, the Predator X7 SSD line, is no different: capacities start at 32GB, then rise through 64GB and 128GB before topping out at 256GB.
My first computer was a Tandy from Radio Shack that my parents bought for me one Christmas when I was five. The thing didn’t even have a hard drive and the first computer I had with a hard drive has a few measly megabytes of storage and wouldn’t even hold my IM app today. My point is that we are always needing more storage space and what we think is enough. If your old flash drive is full and you are in need of something with more space, Corsair has announced a new 64GB Flash Survivor USB drive that may be just the ticket.
A Taiwanese company called Pretec has announced what it claims to be the world’s fastest USB flash drive known as the i-Disk Tango 266X. The performance claims for the little flash drive are impressive. The maximum theoretical speed of the USB 2.0 specification is 60MB/sec, and we all know those maximum speeds are rarely achieved.
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Keeping the data we put on flash drives and other external storage solutions safe is a concern for many of us. In the world of government and business keeping data safe is an even bigger concern. Lost government flash drives packed with personal data on citizens have been in the news before and presents a big issues for Americans. Lexar has announced a new flash drive that is called the JumpDrive Safe S3000 FIPS to protect sensitive data for enterprise and government workers.
There are some things in life that we always want more of. You can never have enough money or enough speed for your Internet connection. It’s also hard to argue with more storage space. We certainly all want more speed from our backup devices and Kingston has announced its DataTraveler 410 is now faster than ever.
There are lots of men and women out there who really like cars and for many of these folks the exotic car is one of the vehicles that get them the most excited. Marques like Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Porsche get the hearts of enthusiasts around the globe fluttering.
Steampunk is definitely here, and it’s not going anywhere any time soon. Whether you like it or not. And while we’ve covered it before, this time it seems a bit too much to handle. We love flash drives as much as the next person, and Steampunk is a great design aesthetic, but let’s be honest: price matters. Apparently, not everyone got that memo.
Sanrio has teamed up with Mimoco today to announce a brand new line of flash drives called the MIMOBOT. These USB drives will take on the shape of various Sanrio characters, the first of which is a Hello Kitty model.
Corsair’s new 128GB Flash Voyager GT thumb-drive is, the company claims, so speedy that its throughput is effectively limited by the capacity of a USB 2.0 port. That either means that USB 3.0 can’t come quickly enough, or that Corsair’s engineers basically wasted their time and could’ve slacked off in the latter stages of the Voyager GT’s development.
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