IC design houses Genesys Logic and Alcor Micro are expected to see their revenues grow over 20% sequentially in the second quarter of 2010 buoyed by increasing shipments of USB 3.0 controller chips, according to industry sources.
Genesys indicated that it has started shipping, in small volume, its second-generation USB 3.0-SATA bridge controllers, with the third-generation of its kind to be available in the third quarter of 2010. Overall, USB 3.0 chips will contribute over 3% to its total revenues in the second half.
Meanwhile, industry sources indicated that Alcor Micro has landed orders for USB card reader controllers for LCD TV application from a major player in Korea, which will help drive up its USB controller shipments.
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…diskbench is nice in that it tells us the actual times and transfer rates to complete the tasks of Copy To or Write To the USB drives, Read From and Copy From as well. I run these three tests on my USB drives because they are the most common things people are going to be doing with their USB drives. First up is testing with the 350MB .AVI Video file, lower scores are better as they are shown in seconds. The first test is for Copy To or Write To the USB drives.For the full 16GB USB Drive review please visit Test Freaks webpage. Thanks Anton. Continue Reading
We’ve heard of a USB port replicator which is a fancy word for dock station, but now we have a USB Duplicator from Nexcopy. The USB duplicator is the largest PC-based copier on the market which quickly and easily copies data to flash drives. The average user wouldn’t need this, but this product would be a great fit for many corporations today. Since USB flash memory is such a popular medium for data distribution, the USB duplicator seems like a good investment that would save an IT team a significant amount of time.
The Nexcopy USB Duplicator has several different functions like file copy, which copies files and folders from a PC onto the flash drive with the same file structure. Another feature is USB device copy. This is a low-level duplicator with a bit-for-bit copy function. The USB200PC also comes with a Copy Job function so you can set a string of activity such as Format, Copy, Verify, and Volume Name.
The USB Duplicator is powered by Windows PC software written and owned by Nexcopy called Drive Manager. This software suite does a variety of things besides duplication, such as data extraction (reading files off the USB flash drive), unique data streaming to put unique content on each flash drive, formatting, erasing, and making image files of your masters.
Point the Drive Manager software to any folder on the host computer and everything will be copied over. This is very similar to the drag-and-drop function in Microsoft Windows. Note that Drive Manager runs only on Windows.
With any targets formatted as FAT, FAT32, exFAT, or NTFS, the software can add files to USB sticks which already have data on them. This is a useful feature for large datasets where only a small portion of new content needs to be added.
Use this feature to stream unique data to each flash drive. This is ideal for publishers and medical companies that require bulk loading where each USB stick needs different information. The unique data streaming feature supports both static and dynamic content.
Drive Manager uses a binary bit-by-bit copy from a physical master to all connected targets. This includes the MBR (Master Boot Record), partition table, and content. The “short” copy function will only duplicate data clusters detected on the master. For example, if a 64GB flash drive has only 5GB of data, the short function will copy only 5GB instead of the entire 64GB.
Using the same bit-by-bit copy method, the full Device Copy function duplicates the entire master to all targets. This is typically required when the master uses a file system Windows cannot read (such as Linux ext3 or ext4) or a proprietary format.
Use a digital master file to duplicate content to USB flash drives. By using an image file, you get the same bit-by-bit duplication process without requiring a physical master.
The Nexcopy duplicator has a list price of $1,299, making it the most economical solution for the number of targets it provides: 20.
Source: GetUSB.info.