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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.

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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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Contents Digital Media Guide M M I T T E D to M E M O R Y Flash Card or USB Flash Drive CapacityFeatures of Kingston’s Flash Storage Products May 10 Non-Volatile NOR and Nand Flash Technologies Nand Flash Memory NOR Flash MemoryMULTI-LEVEL Cell MLC Flash Technologies DIE-STACKINGMULTI-BIT Cell MBC Flash Technology Flash Storage Device PerformanceUSB Flash Drives Kingston’s Flash Card Product LinesDatatraveler Secure Digital SD Cards Compactflash CF CardsMultimediacard MMC Digital Media Reader-WritersKingston DataPak PC Card Hard Drives CompactFlash to PC Card AdaptersAppendix USB Performance For More InformationFlash Memory Chip