Pretec P240 SuperSpeed USB-3.0 Card Reader Debuts

Pretec, the leader of the highest capacity (128GB) CF card, fastest CF card(667X), and first SDXC card in the world, announces P240 USB3.0 High-Speed Multi-Card Reader, the 1st USB3.0 card reader in the world supporting high-performance SDXC, CF and other major memory cards. A provider of "Cool Memories, the Ultimate in Style & Speed," Pretec offers a full series of high-performance card readers in the world to be shown at Pretec booth at Computex Taipei 2010 (TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall, Lower Exhibition Hall booth J317a).

With interface speed of 5Gb/s (or 625MB/s, 10X faster than USB 2.0), USB 3.0 has solved the speed bottleneck for high speed memory card data transfer. Today's high speed memory card can reach to >50MB/s for SDXC (Pretec SDXC card, also introduced today), >100MB/s for CF card (Pretec 567X/667X 128GB CF card, announced last week), >300MB/s for SSD (Pretec P4000 SATA II SSD, announced last week), all above have far exceeded the transfer speed of USB 2.0 (theoretical data is 60MB/s, and practical maximum is around 40MB/s) and hence much need the 10X speed enhancement of USB3.0. Before the availability of USB 3.0 card readers, Pretec ExpressCard CF card reader and Pretec ExpressCard SD/SDXC card reader are the fastest card readers in the world capable of transferring data in the range of 100MB/s. Pretec P240 USB3.0 Multi-Card Reader is a perfect solution for potable usage, which has made Pretec's full line card reader series the most complete and most comprehensive in the world. The ultra high performance allows user applications to demand a higher performance connection between PC and increasingly sophisticated peripherals.

Pretec P240 USB3.0 Multi-Card reader will start sampling by next month, with mass production scheduled in August.

About Pretec

Pretec (https://www.pretec.com/) offers a complete spectrum of small form factor memory cards and readers such as CF, SD/MMC, USB Flash Drive, and wireless communication devices for digital imaging, mobile communication, and industrial flash markets. As the 2nd company in the world to offer CF cards since 1995 and the company to create CF I/O and SD I/O cards since 1998, Pretec has consistently demonstrated the Largest capacity flash cards in the world: such as CF 3GB, 6GB, 12GB, 16GB, 24GB, 48GB, 64GB, 100GB and SD 4GB, SDHC 8GB 16GB 32GB; the fastest flash card in the world: such as CF 667X, world's 1st CFast Storage Card, word's 1st SDXC card, and USB 266X. With more than 200 patents granted or filed, Pretec has also been offering the smallest USB flash drive in the world with unique technology: such as i-Disk Tiny ("Best Gear of 2003" by TIME Magazine) and i-Disk Diamond; the most reliable flash card in the world: such as rugged PCMCIA, rugged CF card, and i-Disk Bulletproof, a water-proof, fire-proof, and bullet-proof USB flash drive. Pretec's i-Disk BiBi USB flash drive, Plug2Go Smart Card Drive and IntellicableTM were respectively winners of Taiwan Excellence Award 2009 and Golden Pin Design Mark for their unique function and style.

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# Media — webillustrator 2010-06-03 10:20

Hi, Regarding SDXC; In a few years there will be billions of SDXC cards all over the world; all using the exFAT file system. No option. This is the standard. Most embedded devices use Linux (Google?s Android, Intel?s and Nokia?s MeeGo, Samsung's Bada, etc.). Linux adoption is growing, taking market share from most of the proprietary operating systems. Basically, Tuxera has assumed a leadership role, through work with Microsoft and the SD Association, in handling billions of consumer electronics devices that will be using SDXC cards in the coming years. Tuxera exFAT for Android and other Linux systems was a major first. ? Best Lauren

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