Kingston Technology Digital Media Guide - Manual (Page 13)

• High Capacity: Up to 5 GB (5,000,000,000 bytes) of uncompressed storage capacity
in a compact form-factor. Note that some of the listed capacity is used for
formatting and other functions and thus is not available for data storage.
• Operating Systems Compatibility: Compatible with PC and Macintosh operating
systems. The DataPak also supports disk compression.
• Plug and Play Support: Kingston’s DataPak supports plug and play. With plug and
play technology and compatible computer operating systems, the DataPak can be
inserted into a computer or a flash media reader and be quickly recognized and
accessed by the computer.
• Device Compatibility: The DataPak is compatible with devices supporting PC
Card Type II storage, including portable computers, digital cameras, and other
devices.
• High Data Reliability: The Kingston DataPak has rated error specification of one
(1) bit in 10,000,000,000,000 bits read (1 bit per 1013 bits read).
• Mean Time between Failures (MTBF): The DataPak MTBF is rated at over
300,000 hours.
• Low Power Consumption: The DataPak consumes only 1.7W of battery power
during read/write cycles and only 0.5W in idle mode.
For More Information:
For additional information on Kingston products, please visit us at:
kingston.com/digitalmedia.
Appendix: USB Performance
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is emerging as the preferred interface to connect
digital media reader-writers to computers.
The latest USB specification is USB 2.0. The older specification was USB 1.1. The USB
2.0 specification includes the USB 1.1 speeds for backward-compatibility reasons.
To understand what affects a flash card’s performance, the following factors need to
be considered:
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