Moser Baer launches USB flash drives

Mumbai, Nov 29 (UNI) Computer portable storage major Moser Baer India today informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) that they are all set to usher in the 'Moser Baer' range of USB Flash drives in the Indian market, which according to industry estimates, along with the optical media, is the fastest growing segment in the portable storage market.

According to the Dataquest Top20 survey, the Indian market for flash drives has seen stupendous growth and has grown from 1,00,000 units in 2004-05 to over 9,00,000 units in 2005-06. The shift from FDD to pen drives, which started in the last 1-2 years, gained considerable momentum in the year 2005-06 riding on the demand generated by the working professionals in corporate and small office home office (SOHO) sector.

With capacities ranging from 512 MB to 4 GB, the Moser Baer range will have one million rewritable cycles and it's advanced technology circuitry has data retention feature of upto 10 years. The high end range with a capacity of 4 GB is capable of holding over 1,000 MP3 songs or high definition images and over several hours of MPEG4 video footage, the company added in a release to the BSE.

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