SP/Silicon Power Adding Complete Lineup of Apple Storage Devices

Silicon Power Computer & Communications Inc. (SP/Silicon Power) introduces a lineup of Apple storage products to meet increasing iOS users’ demands for storage expansion.

Incorporating a range of products including USB flash drives, expansion cards, portable HDDs and external SSD, the SP Apple Series is about to satisfy memory expansion needs.

Add more space for Apple handsets with multiple interfaces
According to Gartner, Apple’s iOS mobile platform saw its great slice of the smartphone pie with 17.9% for the first quarter of 2015. Moreover, IDC also addressed that Apple sold around 48 million iPhones during the third quarter of 2015, which outperformed the sales during the same period in 2014.

However, the Institute for Information Industry recently released a report indicating that more than 35% of iPhone users claimed that the biggest problem they have encountered is ‘No enough storage available’. Additionally, the big price gap between iPhones/iPads with different capacities also troubles many users for they have to spend much more money to upgrade the storage. The problems of ‘space shortage’ and ‘high cost’ imply that there are more and more users looking for cost-effective iOS-supported memory storage devices.

xDrive Z30

In response to such booing demands, the company offers the xDrive Z30 Lightning USB drive that enables easy storage expansion for iOS handsets. Furthermore, the Z30 features dual-interface design with Lightning and USB 3.0 connectors that make the drive a bridge to move photos and videos among iOS handsets, desktops and laptops. In addition to Lightning-interface application, the firm takes the upcoming trend of USB Type-C into consideration and therefore introduces the Mobile C80 dual USB drive, which incorporates two connectors with Type-C and USB 3.0 interfaces. Equipped with the dual-connector design, the C80 enables backup and transmission between devices with USB Type-C or USB Type-A ports.

Armor A65M

Expand storage of MacBook Air and MacBook Pro
In addition to mobile devices, the company provides various products made to offer capacity upgrade solutions for Mac computers, including the xDrive series expansion cards for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro and the Armor A65M/A85M shockproof and waterproof portable HDDs for users on the go. The xDrive Series expansion cards L12 and L13 are especially tailored with two different dimensions that they can be fitted in the card slots of MacBook Air and MacBook Pro without any intrusion to the unibody beauty of MacBooks. Therefore, users can get more capacity anywhere without removing the card out of the computer.

xDrive Series expansion cards L12 and L13

For larger capacity and higher data safety, users can choose the Armor A65M and A85M portable HDDs, which both passed the U.S. military’s drop test of MIL-STD 810G Method 516.6 Procedure IV (transit drop test) and respectively meets the IP67 and IP68 standard that they can resist water and dust invasion. The shockproof, waterproof and dustproof functions promise protections against all kinds of outer threats to keep your data safer than ever. Furthermore, featuring rugged structure design and eye-catching look, the A65M won the recognition from Red Star Design Award 2015.

Fast speeds for professionals’ needs

Thunder T11 external SSD

There are lots of big Apple fans are also businessmen and media pros who value the importance of speed and stability, and the Thunder T11 external SSD is designed for these professionals to allow faster and smoother operation. The Thunderbolt interface offers two-channel data transmission on the same connector with 10GB/s throughput for each direction. Different from USB 3.0 interface that can only provide 5GB/s throughput for both directions, the Thunderbolt allows much faster transfer speeds for multitasking and media-editing. Equipped with Thunderbolt interface, the T11 delivers transfer rates up to R/W 340MB/280MB/s that it can transfer a HD media file of 10GB in 30s and support 4K/2K video playback. Moreover, the T11 features small and lightweight exterior that it merely weights 65g and is half the size of other external storage devices in the market.