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Pretec Electronics

Pretec™ (http://www.pretec.com) offers a complete spectrum of small form factor memory cards and card readers, USB flash drives, communication peripherals, and industrial storages. As the 2nd company in the world offering CF card since 1995 and the company to create CF I/O and SD I/O cards since 1998, Pretec has consistently revealed the highest capacity and fastest flash cards in the world. Not only pioneering speed and capacity for memory cards, Pretec has also presented the world’s smallest USB flash drive and the most reliable industrial solution on Earth. The company has more than 200 patents granted or filed.

see also:- Pretec - editor mentions on StorageSearch.com and Pretec's SSD page

Pretec mentions from SSD market history

In March 2009 - Pretec Electronics started sampling a 128GB ExpressCard SSD for the notebook market with 38/30MB/s R/W speeds and hardware encryption.
this way to the Petabyte SSD...................
In 2016 there will be just 3 types of SSD in the datacenter.

One of them doesn't exist yet - the bulk storage SSD.

It will start to replace the last remaining strongholds of hard drives in the datacenter due to its unique combination of characteristics, huge storage density, low running costs and operational advantages.

Bulk storage SSDs will displace the last remaining hard drives in the enterprise server market by 2020 - even if the price of a new hard disk drops to zero and enterprise HDDs are given away free!
click to read the article -  reaching for the petabyte SSD - not as scary as you may think ... The new business and architectural models of the datacenter - how we get from here to there - and the technical and problems which will need to be solved - are just some of the ideas explored in this visionary article.
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