Walton Chaintech Apogee Astro USB 2.0 Flash Key
16GB to 64GB, up to 41MB/s read and 25MB/s write
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on February 17, 2010 at 3:04 pmWalton Chaintech Corp. is launching its latest Astro Drive 266X, which delivers a reading speed of 40.9 MB/s and a maximum writing speed of 25.2 MB/s.
The specifications of Astro Drive 266X far exceed the performance of all existing USB2.0 flash drives currently available in the market. Featuring innovative technologies to lower the costs of production, Walton Chaintech has enhanced the economic benefit for the product. The Astro Drive 266X provide a variety of memory capacities: from 16GB to 64GB.
With the Astro Drive 266X, consumers will notice significantly reduced waiting time for data transfer between PCs and the USB disk, especially for large audio/video/multimedia files, demonstrating the product’s blazing fast performance.
The Apogee Astro Drive 266X features the latest quad-channel MLC technology. Coupled with the Turbo speed accelerator, Walton Chaintech has boosted the product’s reading and writing speed to the theoretical limits for USB 2.0 flash drives while lowering the costs of production. In the past, most conventional high speed USB drives adopted the SLC chipset to increase reading and writing speed, but the exorbitant prices have made it difficult for consumers’ general acceptance. The Astro Drive is manufactured by using the latest technologies and Walton Chaintech has used the more affordable MLC chipsets to achieve data transfer speeds that surpass SLC chipsets at approximately half the costs. The company has improved the product’s C/P value to deliver significantly accelerated data transfer speed while safeguarding consumers’ wallets. Coupled with Apogee’s exclusive calibration technologies, the prices of high speed USB drives will no longer be too far to reach. Now, users can purchase high-speed, high-capacity USB drives at the price of high-capacity USB drives.
The Apogee Astro Drive 266X is equipped with multi-channel parallel technology to accelerate data transfer processing. It also features sophisticated wear-leveling, inserting and dynamic distribution technology to reduce chipset wearing, effectively lengthening the product’s lifecycle. Constructed with aluminum injected material, the product’s minimalistic exterior is shock resistant and capable of safeguarding users’ data.