Seagate Pulsar – it’s first Solid State Drive
Finally, Seagate announced its first solid state drive, the Pulsar, which is targeted at enterprise blade and general server applications instead of consumer market. The 2.5-inch Pulsar is based on single-level cell (SLC) technology and offers up to 200GB capacity.
The Seagate Pulsar uses SATA 3Gb/s interface. It delivers a a peak performance of up to 30,000 read IOPS and 25,000 write IOPS, 240MB/s sequential read and 200 MB/s sequential write speeds.
Pandigital ZINK Portable Photo Printer
Pandigital teamed up with ZINK to introduces its first photo printer based on the Zero Ink printing technology. The printer is called Pandigital Portable Photo Printer, which is the first Zero Ink 4×6-inch printer.
Like other ZINK-enabled printers, Pandigital’s offering does not need ink to printer. Instead, it uses the patented ZINK Paper, an advanced composite material with embedded yellow, magenta, and cyan dye crystals. The printer can print photos directly from memory cards and USB drives, without the need of a PC. It has a LCD display for previewing photos.
Pandigital’s ZINK printer will be released in Q1 2010.
Finally, Seagate announced its first solid state drive, the Pulsar, which is targeted at enterprise blade and general server applications instead of consumer market. The 2.5-inch Pulsar is based on single-level cell (SLC) technology and offers up to 200GB capacity.