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Flash drives up to 16GB by Christmas

Toshiba U3 drives mean portable apps as well as data

Andrew Charlesworth, vnunet.com 31 Aug 2006
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Toshiba will be selling 16GB USB Flash drives by the end of the year and has promised to deliver more high-capacity models. 

The new device is one of a family of TransMemory U3 USB drives in 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 16GB capacities announced by Toshiba. 

U3 drives can store data and personal and security settings, and enable applications to be launched from the drive when used with a PC running Windows XP or 2000. 

U3 Launchpad software integrated into the memory automatically launches on insertion, presenting the user with a list of programs to choose from and files to work with.

U-Safe password-based security protection software is also built into Launchpad. When the user removes a U3 USB device no personal data is left behind.

While the lower capacity TransMemory devices will be widely available from November, the 16GB version will be available from the end of December exclusively through Toshiba Direct.

See also:

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Mass produced 8Gb memory for mobiles, MP3 players and game consoles  19 Jul 2006
Flash memoryFlash to outship hard drives by 2013, analyst predicts  18 Jul 2006
Storage tokens could cause injury or property damage  10 Jul 2006
The rising popularity of portable media players such as Apple's iPod Nano is outpacing the production capacity for Flash memoryUpcoming high capacity iPod could impact overall market, Gartner warns  23 Jun 2006
Several manufacturers are showing large capacity hard drives based on Flash memory technology at the Computex trade show in Taipei64GB Flash hard drives shown off at Computex  09 Jun 2006

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