Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its range of memory products with a family of USB flash drives and the commercial availability of 16Gbyte, Class 4-compliant microSDHC cards. The company has also announced that its high-speed professional range of SD cards are now certified in accordance with the new Class 10 SD Association standard. Designed for ease of use, the USB flash drives feature a compact redesigned case incorporating an advanced slide mechanism that allows for single-handed opening. Available storage capacities are four, eight, 16, 32 and 64Gbyte. Read and write speeds are up to 17Mbyte/s and up to 3.9Mbyte/s, respectively. All of the USB drives are compatible with the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. The high-capacity 16Gbyte microSDHC card provides respective read and write speeds up to 20Mbyte/ and 10Mbyte/s. This card is compliant with the SD Association's Class 4 specification, which assures a minimum transfer speed of 4Mbyte/s. To enhance data portability the 16Gbyte microSDHC card is supplied with its own SD adapter.
