Gizmodo: pqi

PQI's Intelligent Stick Flash Drives are Tiny, Waterproof, Dust-Proof

Kit Eaton — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:55:20 EST

PQI's new Intelligent Stick USB flash drives may be a boon for those clumsy people, like myself, who often spill coffee on their electronics or get them soaking wet in pockets that let the rain in. I can't think of a time when I've got a gadget too dusty to use, but these tiny flash drives can even cope with that. Manufactured with a special COB process, they're available in 2GB and 4GB in a number of colors, and are due to be unveiled at CeBIT this week.
[7Gadgets]

PNY and SanDisk Boost SSD Offerings; SSD Lappies Imminent

Adam Frucci — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:25:22 EDT

PNY and SanDisk have some pretty slick new offerings on the solid state drives front, inching us ever closer to the time when all new laptops will come with flash hard drives for faster, quieter and more efficient access.

First, SanDisk announced their 1.8-inch 64GB UATA 5000 and 2.5-inch 64GB SATA 5000 SSDs. Not too shabby. Then PNY went ahead and busted out their 2.5-inch 128GB SSD, which is even better. Neither company has touched PQI's insane 256GB 2.5-inch SSD, but that thing is going to cost the price of a small island, so what we're really seeing at this point is a race to reasonable prices.

With bigger SSDs coming out for less and less every day (although none of the above mentioned products have price tags as of yet), it's only a matter of months until we start seeing the transition to SSD laptops start in full effect. Get excited. –Adam Frucci

PNY and SanDisk [via CrunchGear]

PQI Chinese New Year Inspired Credit Card Drive

Jason Chen — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:44:35 EST

Good news pigs! PQI is releasing a limited edition Fortune Pig Edition flash card drive. It's a 2GB flash drive in the shape of a credit card adorned with dragony-ish Chinese-y designs on the front to make you believe that storing your Firefox bookmarks is some kind of ancient Chinese secret.

They're only making 500 units of the 2GB model and 1000 units of the 1GB model, so if you're a pig (2007 is the year of the pig), then you may want one for yourself. – Jason Chen

PQI Limited Fortune Pig Edition Card Drive U510 [Far East Gizmos]

PQI Creates World's First Click-Style Retractable USB Flash Drive

Travis Hudson — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:12:04 EST

The PQI U350 is a flash drive that has the world's first retractable USB connector. Wait, no, that can't be right because SanDisk has been doing it for years. Oh, it is the world's first click-style retractable USB connector flash drive. Damn, PQI, you guys really wanted to earn a world's first title.

The drive is available in capacities from 512 MB up to 4 GB. The USB connection works like a traditional click-pen. Push the end in to click the connector out, push it again to click it in—kind of neat, yet pointless. No word on pricing or available. – Travis Hudson

PQI Releases World's First Flash Drive with Retractable USB Connector [OhGizmo!]

Dealzmodo: 2GB SD Card, USB Card Reader, $38

Travis Hudson — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:38:28 EDT

Today we're featuring a PQI 2GB SD Card with a free 7-in-1 card reader for $38. With damn near every gadget out there using SD for expandable memory, this might be the perfect spare card to add to your collection. I haven't really heard much about PQI, but an SD card is an SD card, right? For comparison purposes, most other 2GB SD cards retail for double what this costs. – Travis Hudson

PQI 2GB SD Card [Meritline]

PQI Announces 64GB Flash Drive

Charlie White — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:24:25 EDT

Taiwanese company PQI (Power Quotient International) augmented its SATA flash drive line with a 64GB model. The storage units, billed as the world slimmest flash drives, consist of 3mm-thin cards that hold huge amounts of data and plug into a Mac or PC using USB 2.0.

The company says these discs will have a transfer rate of 25MB per second, and will be highly efficient, consuming just a small amount of power. A frustrating part of this announcement is that the most important element of this equation, the cost of these drives, was not released yet. – Charlie White

PQI 64GB 2.5-inch SATA flash disk now available [Newlaunches]