How fast do you require your USB flash drive to be? Because if you want speed then there’s a certain Taiwanese company called Pretec that can get you such a product. The i-Disk Tango 266X will be able to offer you read speeds of 40MB/s and wire speeds of 30MB/s. That’s certainly impressive for an USB 2.0 device and those numbers make this USB 2.0 flash drive the fastest in the world.

If you want to grab one then you can choose between 8GB and 128 GB versions. That’s certainly impressive! Who needs an ultraportable hard drive when you can simply grab a couple of 128GB i-Disk Tangos and go about your business? We don’t have any pricing details at this time but don’t expect these gadgets to come cheap!

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Who needs hard disks if we have cards like these, right? With a promise to go up to 2 terabytes in capacity, the newly announced SDXC standard is already seeing some entries in its segment.  The first of its kind is the Pretec 32GB SDXC card, which although does not run into terabytes, seems to be heading in the right direction nonetheless.  Data transfer is said to be at 50MB/s, which is a far cry from the 300Mbps transfer speed touted about but still impressive.

There is no information on its price or avaiability, but with no devices announced supporting the format yet, Pretec can take all the time it needs to actually start selling little behemoths.

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