Review: 16GB Lexar Echo USB ZX Backup Drive

Tesxt and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

WIth the proliferation of tablets, netbooks and all increasingly thin ultrabooks in the market, storage has become a big deal. $100 is the penalty to double a tablet or notebook's memory from 16GB to 32GB because internal SSD (Solid State Drive) memory is still darn costly. Lexar's series of tiny yet capable (8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities) USB backup drive give instant memory expansion at a relatively affordable price.

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Silicon Power announces 128GB 400x CF card

Avid photographers and videographers rejoice, the world's first 128GB high-speed Compact Flash memory card is on the way.

Taiwan-based memory manufacturer Silicon Power just announced the world's first Compact Flash (CF) card with 128GB of storage capacity, the 400x 128GB CF for short. The new CF card has write speeds of 90MBps, a stupidly fast ideal for high-speed digital photography as well as HD video recording.

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