Pretec Electronics Corp. Press Release 07/12/04

PRETEC i-Disk II 8GB, The Highest Capacity USB Flash Drive in the World
 
FREMONT, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 7, 2004—Pretec Electronics Corp., the 2nd company in the world offering CompactFlash (CF) memory card since 1995, announced the world’s highest capacity and high speed USB flash drive supporting dual channel data transmission, which can reach the highest average transfer rate up to 120X.

Equipped with hi-speed transmission of dual channel technology, PRETEC i-Disk II 8GB can process files transfer concurrently and bring you the extremely high speed in read & write up to 16MB/sec and 12MB/sec. With its design-in functions of data encryption, compression and write protection, users can fully leverage the largest memory space of PRETEC i-Disk II 8GB under a data secured environment. Light weight, compact, and bundled with the FlashMail, MobileLock, SecretZip software, PRETEC i-Disk II 8GB is a perfect storage solution for active mobile users traveling around the world.

Combining the features of the world’s largest capacity, streamline modeling, high reliable transmission speed, and full data protection, PRETEC i-Disk II 8GB is the best storage solution to fit USB devices of PC, Notebook, and i-Mac. It currently provides memory range from 128MB up to 4GB for accessing the mass data, imaging pictures, music files. Also connecting with Bluetooth and WLAN technology in the future, providing more convenient, diversified storage applications, PRETEC i-Disk II 8GB USB flash drive is sampling now, with mass production scheduled by next month.

About Pretec
Pretec(TM) Electronics Corp. (http://www.pretec.com) offers a complete spectrum of small form factor memory cards and card readers such as ATA/CF card, IDE & Mini-IDE Flash Drive (MIDE(TM)), SmartMedia(TM), MultiMedia Card(TM), and SD Card for the digital imaging, mobile computing, and Military/Industrial Control markets; and is the creator of Innovative CompactI/O(TM) cards for PocketPC(TM), digital cameras and many IA devices. Pretec has consistently demonstrated the highest capacity CF cards in the world; such as 80MB, 128MB, 160MB, 320MB, 640MB, 1.5GB, 2GB, 3GB, and 6GB CF card at various locations around the world for the past six years.

—Note: MIDE(TM), CompactI/O(TM), CompactModem(TM), and CompactLAN(TM) are trademarks of Pretec Electronics Corporation. PocketPC(TM) is trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned herein are recognized as the property of their respective holders