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‘Flash Drive’ Stories

Kingston whips out new USB 3.0 flash drive called DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0

Shane McGlaun, Sep 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

There are a number of USB 3.0 external storage products on the market today. These drives are generally larger external HDDs though that are larger than most of us will want to take with us on the road. Kingston has offered up a new USB 3.0 flash drive called the Ultimate 3.0. Read The Full Story

Silicon Power Unique 530 flash drive launches

Shane McGlaun, Sep 14th 2010 Discuss [0]

Silicon Power has hoards of flash drives and other storage solutions in its line. The company has added a new product to its line of flash drives called the Unique 530. The flash drive is enclosed in a "green" silica gel material that is pliable and provides a "sporty" style according to the maker. I'm not sure the silica gel has a sporty look, but it should make the drive more rugged thanks to the rubbery nature of the material. Read The Full Story

LaCie debuts tiny MosKeyto flash drive

Shane McGlaun, Sep 3rd 2010 Discuss [0]

For a long time the wireless dongles that we needed for things like wireless keyboards and desktops were long and fat adapters that often blocked the surrounding USB ports. Thankfully manufacturers have started making those dongles so small you can plug them in and just leave them there. Flash drives today are mostly like those old wireless dongles. Read The Full Story

Patriot unveils Xporter Rage flash drive

Shane McGlaun, Aug 4th 2010 Discuss [0]

Patriot has announced a new addition to its line of Xporter USB flash drives. The new addition is called the Rage and is designed specifically for high performance. The Rage line is available in multiple capacities from 8GB to 64GB. Read The Full Story

MXI Security debuts encrypted Stealth M600 flash drive with CESG CAPS cert

Shane McGlaun, Aug 3rd 2010 Discuss [0]

MXI Security has announced a new encrypted flash drive specifically aimed at UK government agencies that need an encrypted product for the transport and storage of sensitive documents. The Stealth M600 has the CESG CAPS certification for storing confidential data. Read The Full Story

Edge Tech 32GB DiskGO Mini & DiskGo Backup Flash Drives Make Your Keyring Make Sense

Evan Selleck, Jul 20th 2010 Discuss [0]

When you look at your keyring right now, what do you see? (Of course, you have to have a keyring for this little test to work out, mind you.) Your keys, from your car to your house, and maybe a little trinket to show how lucky you are. Well, what you need is a flash drive. No, reallly -- that's what you need. Just imagine how cool, and important you'll feel if you've got 32GB of data right there, easily accessible, ready whenever you are to get that next file to your computer, or anyone's computer for that matter. You're already starting to feel better about this, right? Read The Full Story

Corsair Padlock 2 flash drive security glitch surfaces

Shane McGlaun, Jun 29th 2010 Discuss [0]

Back in February Corsair unveiled its new Padlock 2 flash drive. The drive has a keypad on the front that won't allow access to any of the data on the drive until the correct PIN number is entered. Corsair has reported that an issue with the security on the drive has been discovered. Read The Full Story

Active Media Products Key Drive flash drive looks like a key

Shane McGlaun, Jun 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

Active Media Products has a bunch of different USB drives that work for USB 2.0 and more than a few USB 3.0 drives. The flash drives the company offers often have odd designs. The latest flash drive from the company is called the Key Drive and you can tell what it looks like from the name. Read The Full Story

Patriot unveils encrypted Bolt flash drive

Shane McGlaun, Mar 31st 2010 Discuss [0]

Over the last few years, there have been several high-profile cases in America and Europe where flash drives with confidential data and computers with confidential information were lost. Some of the data was protected by encryption and some of it was not. Read The Full Story

Xbox 360 USB Storage update coming April 6th

Chris Davies, Mar 26th 2010 Discuss [0]

No great surprise, but as of April 6th - and a system update - Xbox 360 owners will be able to use USB flash drives to store their profiles, game-saves, demos and other data from the console. Confirmed by Major Nelson, the system will create a user-definable Xbox 360 partition on the drive - up to 16GB in size - and gamers can hook up two at a time for up to 32GB of storage. Read The Full Story

Active Media Products offers eSATA/USB flash drive

Shane McGlaun, Mar 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Active Media Products has a full line of storage devices and SSDs that use solid state storage. Some of the devices are flash drives and others are SSDs designed to be used inside computers. Active Media Products has unveiled a new flash drive that is designed to work on both eSATA and USB equipped machines. Read The Full Story

Kanguru whips out Defender Elite remotely manageable flash drive with hardware encryption

Shane McGlaun, Mar 11th 2010 Discuss [0]

Data security is at the front of many minds in the business world. With the ease that data can be copied to and from portable devices today and the fact that these devices are easily lost or stolen means sensitive data has to be protected. Kanguru has a new flash drive that has achieved the FIPS 140-2 certification for data security called the Kanguru Defender Elite. Read The Full Story