QPS Ships Que! SuperDisk 240MB USB Drive With FD-32MB Technology; Small, Portable Drive Designed for High-Capacity SuperDisk 240MB Media.Business Editors & High-Tech Industry Writers ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2001 Compatible With LS-120MB, 1.44MB and 720K Diskettes Can Reformat a 1.44MB Floppy Diskette to 32MB -- or 22 Times its Original Capacity! QPS (Queries Per Second) The number of database transactions that can be handled in one second. Inc. (www.qps-inc.com) is now shipping its Que! SuperDisk 240MB USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. portable drive for PCs and Macs. The new drive features FD-32MB technology and can reformat a standard 1.44MB floppy diskette to 32MB -- or 22 times its original capacity. Designed for high-capacity SuperDisk 240MB media, it is also compatible with LS-120MB, standard l.44MB and 720K floppy diskettes. The drive's standard USB interface is compatible with both USB 2.0 (high-speed) and USB 1.1 (standard) -- and does not require a power adapter. The Que! SuperDisk drive is lightweight and highly portable. Its high-impact casing is durable and shock resistant, and features an attached hide-away cable. Measuring only 1" x 4.4" x 5.7", the drive can be carried in a pocket or purse and taken anywhere. "Our Que! SuperDisk drive provides users with fast, inexpensive, convenient storage for photos, MP3, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , database and other critical information," said Pierre Abboud, vice president of QPS. "It is ideal for educational, government, business, SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. and home environments where multiple users need a fast, easy-to-use device to share digital information." Because it is compatible with a variety of media, the QPS! SuperDisk drive is an extremely versatile storage solution. It allows a user to choose the most cost-effective solution for each application. For example, a user could store a few documents on a standard floppy diskette -- or archive many documents on SuperDisk media. Or, a user could record DVD (up to nine seconds) on a floppy diskette that has been reformatted to a 32MB capacity by the QPS! SuperDisk drive -- or store several nine-second DVD clips on SuperDisk media. QPS provides a valuable, complete software package with every LS-240 SuperDisk drive. The package includes PC and Mac OS drivers, Dantz Retrospect Back-up Express (for PCs and Macs), and the SuperWriter 32 utility for formatting standard floppy diskettes to a full 32MB capacity. It also includes Que! D2D (Disk-to-Disk) Typically refers to backing up data on disks rather than on tape. Disk-to-disk backup systems provide a very fast restore capability compared with tape backup. See D2D2T and virtual tape. digital video encoding software (for Windows 98 and 2000), which allows the conversion of captured DV footage from a digital camcorder into DVD MPEG-2 files for storage on diskette. The U.S. price for the drive is $179 MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) . QPS products are available through retail stores, catalogs, e-tailers and other retailers of computer products. Resellers include Fry's, CompUSA, Gateway Country Stores, CDW CDW - data warehouse , Micro Center, Micro Warehouse, PC Connection, Multiple Zones, Creative Computers, Insight, Outpost.com, Buy.com, Egghead.com and others. A list of international distributors and resellers may be found on the QPS Web site (www.qps-inc.com). About QPS QPS Inc. is a fast-growing manufacturer of CD-RW (CD-ReWritable) The only rewritable CD technology. CD-RW disks look like other CD media, but with close inspection, they have a more polished surface with a very dark blue-gray cast. and DVD-RAM A rewritable DVD disc endorsed by the DVD Forum. Using phase change technology, DVD-RAMs are like removable hard disks, and the media can be rewritten 100,000 times compared to 1,000 times for DVD-RW and DVD+RW. The first DVD-RAM drives with a capacity of 2.6GB (single sided) or 5. drives, external hard drives and other storage products for PC and Mac desktop and notebook computers. The company is located at 8015 East Crystal Drive, Anaheim, Calif. 92807. Phones 800/559-4777 and 714/692-5573; fax 714/221-5493. Note to Editors: See the latest Que! drives from QPS at PC XPO XPO Exportin XPO Executive Petty Officer (US Coast Guard) XPO Operations Plans Officer (Wing) XPO Express Persistent Objects 2001, June 26-28, in the DVD Pavilion - Booth 3912, Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York; and at MacWorld, in Booth 455, July 18-20 in New York. Note: SuperDisk and the SuperDisk logo are trademarks of Imation Corp. Que! is a trademark of QPS. |
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