"Hella fast" USB memory from SolidAlliance

Golden Emporer International may have made it, but it takes a company like SolidAlliance to call their new USB memory "hella fast." Or at least that's what we've translated it as; they were careful to avoid the standard Japanese word "very," so it made sense to us. After all, there aren't many things you can do these days to make your company's USB memory stand out, given how flooded the market already is of these things. Anyway, the memory is named "GeIL DAVID 100," and the product line goes from 512MB to 2GB versions. The dual-channel approach allows for a read speed of 30MB per second and a write speed of 20MB per second, so filling even the 2GB drive shouldn't take more than 2 minutes. It also has aluminum casing and a slide-out USB connector. The 2GB model will go for 29,800 yen, which works out to roughly $250 USD.

[hongkongtechkid @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

flash drive, boring boring flash drive!

[Ronald @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

"Geil David"... they better not sell it with this name in Holland.

[Stefan @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

Geil has been selling memory modules in Holland for some time now, the funny part about Geil meaning Horny in Holland has long past when it comes to there first class products..

[John T. Haller @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

These faster drives are of use to users of portable apps. Many of the USB 2.0 "high speed" drives actually have horribly slow write times.

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2549&p=26

The ones with the slowest write times make apps like Portable Firefox and Portable OpenOffice feel slow.

[keith @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

Steeeeeeeeeeeefan

lol horny david!!! might have better sales in amsterdam :)

[nick @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

Hella?

There's no slang in this article, they pretty much just say it's high speed, same kanji used for fast networks. But if you were trying to dress up a post on what is just another stupid usb drive, mission accomplished.