Gizmodo: fastest

Pretec's Stumps Up 64GB Compact Flash Card, and 100GB: World's Largest

Kit Eaton — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:58:00 EDT

100GB CF cards.... holy moly that's huge. Pretec's saying it's the world's largest capacity CF, and I'm not going to argue. It's a 233x speed card, capable of access rates at 35MB/s and it, along with its smaller 64GB sibling, is being shown at Photokina this week. Not satisfied with that though, Pretec's also extending its range of ultra-fast cards (apparently the world's fastest) with 333x speed and 50MB/s data rates in 32GB and 50GB capacities. The 333x 32GB and 233x 64GB are due to ship now, for $630 and $400, and the 233x 100GB and 333x 50GB by the end of the year. But Pretec's being shy about pricing those, or indeed even showing a product pic, but it notes the metal housings make these cards rugged. Press release below.

COLOGNE, Germany & TAIPEI, Taiwan —(Business Wire)— Sep 22, 2008 Pretec, creator of the highest capacity and fastest CompactFlash card in the world, will demonstrate even higher capacities including a 64GB CF card, in the Leaf booth (West Hall 4.2, B009) and CFA (Hall 5.1, G-019) at Photokina 2008.

Pretec today releases 64GB and 100GB, 233X CF cards with access speed of up to 35MB/s, overtaking the Pretec 48GB CF card, the previous world's record holder; and super high speed 333X 32GB and 50GB CF cards capable of running up to 50 MB per second of Read/Write speed, the highest speed CF card in the world.

Pretec CF 233X and 333X CF cards use metal housing and ruggedized construction to provide extensive ruggedness. Pretec 64GB CF cards can be configured or reused to make a 256GB SATA, the highest capacity 2.5" SSD, by using Pretec Q-SATA, a patent-pending technology of flexible, scalable and modular SATA/PATA design based on up to 4 CF cards.

Pretec CF cards will be demonstrated together with high performance digital cameras from Leaf, a business unit of Eastman Kodak. Their new Leaf AFi-II system delivers the fastest shooting speeds of any camera in its class. These speeds are enabled by advanced communication and CF technologies and Leaf Capture software. "We are pleased to have chosen Pretec as our exclusive storage partner at Photokina 2008 and to witness the excitement as Pretec breaks the CF card speed and capacity world records," said Seth Greenberg, Leaf Marketing Director.

Pretec 233X 64GB and 333X 32GB CF cards with suggested retail price of $399 and $630 are slated to start delivery by Photokina 2008.

[Pretec]

Buffalo's 8x Speed Blu-Ray Disc Recorder, World's Fastest (for Now)

Kit Eaton — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:29:00 EDT

Buffalo's upcoming internal and external BD recorder units can burn both single or double-layer BDs up to a sizzling 8x speed, and DVD ±R up to 16x. Of course Blu-ray technology is going to improve, probably following a similar pattern to DVD burning tech. But here's a funny: these drives use Panasonic SW-5584 units inside... and the speed may actually outstrip the currently fastest available Blu-ray burnable discs. Amusing, and a situation that can't last long. The drives are SATA-based (with USB 2 on the external unit) and will be available in Japan at first for around $380 for the internal and $440 for the external drive. [PCWatch]

A-DATA Turbo Series CF 350X Is the World's Fastest Compact Flash Card

Jason Chen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:30:00 EDT

A-DATA's Turbo Series CF card is 350X, which gets you a 52MB/sec read and 47MB/sec write, and comes in 8 and 16GB sizes. It's the fastest Compact Flash card in the world, which is made out of Single-Level-Cell (SLC) flash memory, and has dual-channel support.
[A-Data]

How Silly We Were: 1997's Bestest Computer Really Stunk

Gizloco — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:27:09 EST

Dudes, it's Friday; Calmo. Why not bite your thumb at the boss and waste two more minutes on the Giz by watching this well produced clip of 1997's Best Damn computer. Specs include a 2GB hard drive, 32MB of RAM and a 12X CD-ROM drive. How silly we were to think that that was ever "fast." (Of course, Future People will similarly laugh at us for thinking that quad-core processors were "fast," too. Ah, progress.) – Nicholas Deleon

(Video) World's Fastest PC...in 1997 [TechEBlog]

Seagate Roars Ahead with the World's Fastest Hard Drive

Charlie White — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:41:49 EST

We've seen Sharp's world's-largest LCD at 108 inches and Hitachi's 3.5-inch hard disk packing a full terabyte for $399. But what about the world's fastest hard drive? Isn't that important? It is to Seagate, which rolled out its 15,000RPM 2.5-inch drive that it says is the fastest on the planet.

Even though it's a lot faster, Seagate's updated Savvio hard disk is more power efficient than most, consuming just 5.8 watts when idle, compared to the 8.4 watts consumed by most desktop drives. And how fast is it? Its data access time of 2.9ms is faster than any other, at least for now. It's beginning to ship in HP ProLiant servers in capacities of 36GB or 73GB.– Charlie White

Seagate claims world's fastest hard drive [electronista, via CrunchGear]

Sony Ships AWG170A, Claimed to Be World's Fastest DVD Burner

Gizloco — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:45:56 EDT

Over in Europe, Sony has started shipping the AWG170A, what Sony and its partner NEC claim to be the world's fastest DVD R burner. Able to burn discs at 16x (whether or not 16x media is widely available is apparently irrelevant), the AWG170A also burns DVD-RAM (12x), DVD R DL (8x), DVD+RW (8x), DVD-RW (6x) and CD-R/RW (48x).

The drive, which is available in four different front bezel colors, uses a few different tricks to make sure all that high speed disc burning doesn't end up with the creation of lots of coasters. There's a built-in system to help correct unbalanced discs and a self-cooling design that works without noisy fans.

Allegedly shipping now to Europe, there's still no word when/if the AWG170A will reach the U.S. and for how much. – Nicholas Deleon

Sony ships 'world's fastest' DVD R burner [The Register]