Corsair Launches Flash Readout USB Drive with Bi-stable Cholesteric Display

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, July 25, 2006, 03:00 PM EDT

Corsair Launches Flash Readout USB Drive with Bi-stable Cholesteric Display

-- Shipping now, the New CMFUSBREADOUT in 1GB and 2GB capacities --

Fremont, CA (July 25, 2006) - Corsair Memory, the worldwide leader in design and manufacture of high performance memory, today announced the introduction of the Corsair Flash Readout USB drive. The new USB Flash drive features a Bi-stable Cholesteric Display (BCD) showing data usage, availability and allowing for personalized ID or labeling.

Joining the ever growing Corsair Flash product family, Corsair's Flash Readout USB drive has been designed for users who demand performance, aesthetics and advanced functionality in a small portable device. Offering up to 2GB of storage, the new USB Flash drive features an 11 character alphanumeric label display, pie chart to indicate disk space usage and a 4-digit display showing available storage space. The BCD display retains and displays information for up to one year without the use of a battery.

In addition to advanced display features the Corsair Flash Readout USB drive offers excellent performance. Featuring high speed USB 2.0 interface it can support sustained read speed up to 20MB/sec and write speed up to 7MB/sec. The drive supports Plug & Play functionality in Windows XP, 2000, ME, Linux 2.4.0 and later, Mac OS 9, X and later. READ MORE...

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