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  • Lexar unveils new 32GB CF cards and CF reader

    Lexar unveils new 32GB CF cards and CF reader

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Lexar Media, a provider of memory products for digital media, recently announced the release of their Lexar Professional 600x and 300x 32GB CompactFlash cards as well as the Lexar Professional ExpressCard CompactFlash Reader. The products offer improved performance with a guaranteed minimum write speed of 90MB/s and 45MB/s for the 600x and 300x cards, respectively, when paired with an UDMA 6-enable device. The ExpressCard Reader is a portable CF card reader that fits into a PC or Mac ExpressCard slot and supports read/write speeds of up to 133MB/s.

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  • A photo gallery of the tiny 16GB Lexar Echo ZE flash drive with 12 household items

    A photo gallery of the tiny 16GB Lexar Echo ZE flash drive with 12 household items

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    The FedEx man just dropped off the new Lexar 16GB Echo ZE Backup Drive. This thing is tiny. Like I knew it was small judging by the press photos when it was announced back at CES, but I had no idea it was this small. You need to see this thing to scale to really appreciate it and so I snapped a few pictures with random items around my desk. Click through for the photo gallery. You have to see this thing. Full review coming soon.

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  • The Lexar Media Echo SE and ZE drives backs up your files “on the go”

    The Lexar Media Echo SE and ZE drives backs up your files “on the go”

    Posted on January 5, 2010 | No Comments
    So let's say you're "on the go" and you're notebook dies. What do you do? I mean, you're "on the go." Well, you sure as hell don't take it to Best Buy. Hopefully you have the Lexar Media Echo system in place. This little flash drive continuously backs up your files while you're "on the go." How clever.

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  • Review: Lexar JumpDrive SAFE S3000 FIPS USB drive

    Review: Lexar JumpDrive SAFE S3000 FIPS USB drive

    Posted on October 13, 2009 | No Comments
    I mentioned a newly released hardware encrypted USB flash drive last week, and promised a full review. Here it is! The Lexar JumpDrive SAFE S3000 FIPS is a hardware-encrypted USB drive that satisfies U.S. government computer security standard FIPS 140-2 Level 3. "Physical security mechanisms required at Security Level 3 are intended to have a high probability of detecting and responding to attempts at physical access, use or modification of the cryptographic module." The SAFE S3000 FIPS accomplishes this by means of a Gemalto .NET V2.2 FIPS smart card, which provides "tamper-resistant storage, isolation of all security-critical computations, and strong authentication through a stringent PKI-based challenge-response process." The metal casing is water proof, and the entire thing is filled with "military-grade epoxy compound" to thwart physical access. This drive has some serious heft to it, compared to other USB sticks. In a pinch, you could probably cause modest pain to someone by throwing it at them. Seriously, this thing is solid. Read on for the whole story.

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  • Secure your data with encrypted USB drives

    Secure your data with encrypted USB drives

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments
    USB media represents a double-edged sword: on the one hand, data portability is an extremely useful thing; but on the other hand, data portability can be a gigantic liability for your business operations. You can try to train your users not to put sensitive data on USB drives, but chances are that convenience will win out over security, and your data will slip out on USB media anyway. And then it's all too easy for USB media to simply disappear: I can't count how many thumb drives I've lost. New products are coming soon to help solve this problem.

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