SSD Drive Toolkit

PQI – one of the few manufacturers with USB 3.0 data storage device models . That would be two devices: external hard disk drive H566 and solid state drive S533. Both drives were recently released.

External Hard Drive PQI H566 is prefabricated in 2.5-inch form factor and endowed with 8 MB of cache memory. It operates at 5400 rpm(revolutions per minute). Capacity of the model varies – 320/500/640 GB. Data reading speed for H566 is 105 MB/s, writing speed – almost 100 MB/s.

Let’s look closer to the more interesting second novelty – SSD disk PQI S533. It is made in the same form factor as H566 (2.5 inches) and supports USB 3.0 interface as well. SSD is available in 80 or 160 GB capacity versions. Its performance characteristics are really impressive: the writing speed reaches 198 MB/s and reading speed soars at 274 MB/s.  As we can see after brief calculation S533 runs almost six times faster than similar drives with old USB 2.0 interface. If S533 will really show such a performance in using it definitely will become desirable present for Christmas or New Year for any computer user.

PQI also has presented a memory card(Express Card) which has two USB 3.0 slots built-in.

Taiwanese manufacturer of flas-memory devices, Power Quotient International (PQI) is going to introduce its new SSD drives on CES 2009. It would be not only internal drives but also external storages and even ExpressCard-based devices for mobile computers.

PQI SSD Drive S525

The traditional SSD Drives will become two new models S518 and S525, made in 2.5-inch format with maximum capacity at 128GB. These models will have SATAII interface for connection to the system.

PQI SSD S520

S520 SSD designed for mobile systems has slighty unusual view because of USB connection port. Thus S520 can be connected not only to your laptop but also desktop PC as well as systems without ExpressCard slot. Capacity of novelties – 32 GB.

PQI SSD S530

Last but not least interesting model is the Combo Card S530. This device supports eSATA port as well as USB connection. Thus it would hard work to connect it to a personal computer. Maximum reading speed is 90 Mb/s. Of course if you use USB speed is reduced to the capacity of the interface. You can write to hte Combo Card S530 upto 64 GB of data.