Lexar Press Release

Lexar’s New JumpDrive® Lightning Strikes With Top-Of-The-Line Capacity, Blazing Speed and Dazzling Design

London, August 2005 – Lexar Media, Inc. (Nasdaq:LEXR), a leader in advanced digital media and accessories, today announced the JumpDrive Lightning range.  The JumpDrive Lightning is the company’s flagship USB flash drive and its stainless steel casing protects between 512mb (£49.99), 1GB (£79.99) and 2GB (£149.99) of plug&play memory.

JumpDrive Lightning is unrivaled in terms of capacity, software functionality and design. With a distinctive stainless steel casing, JumpDrive Lightning is capable of impressive read/write speeds, the 2GB JumpDrive Lightning providing a speed rating of 120x (18MB/sec) minimum sustained write speed capability and 160x (24 MB/sec) minimum sustained read speed capability. It’s ideal for business professionals, power users and anyone looking for high performance storage, portability and the ability to save and carry large amounts of digital pictures, music, presentations or any other data files.

“JumpDrive Lightning clearly stands out as the top-of-the-line product among Lexar’s USB flash drive offering, providing the best we have to offer in read/write speeds with additional memory capacity and more advanced software. It incorporates the very best in portable data storage and transfer technologies,” said Fraser MacDonald, Product Marketing Manager at Lexar. “As our flagship product, JumpDrive Lightning is the epitome of USB flash drive capabilities combined with the ultimate in design.”

JumpDrive Lightning also provides data security and file synchronization, with flexible options to help keep important data safe and protected, even if the drive is lost or stolen. JumpDrive Lightning creates both password-protected and public areas on the drive. The public area is accessible by anyone using the JumpDrive, while the private area is password-protected using 256-bit AES encryption. This makes it possible for users to easily share files, while at the same time securely limit access to sensitive or private information.

For added convenience, JumpDrive Lightning easily synchronizes files between a PC and the JumpDrive, putting the most current data at users’ fingertips at all times. In addition, convenient setup preferences can include or exclude subfolders or filter specific file types to be synchronized.

“Along with storage capacity, speed is often one of the most sought-after features that our customers want in a USB flash drive,” added Fraser MacDonald “We’ve met this need with JumpDrive Lighting, providing a product capable of transferring very large files such as video clips and images, at an incredibly high speed.”

The JumpDrive Lightning is available now, and comes bundled with a special Lexar polishing cloth, to keep its good looks. For details of retail outlets please call Lexar on 01483 797788.