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Pretec claims that its new flash drive, the i-Disk Tango 266x, is the world’s fastest USB flash drive, with read speeds of 40 MB/s and write speeds of 30 MB/s.

"The theoretical maximum for USB 2.0 is 60 MB/s," writes I4U News’ Shane McGlaun. "Most devices can’t hit that theoretical limit because of overhead, and Pretec claims that 40 MB/s is the practical limit for the USB 2.0 specifications, meaning its Tango flash drive is as fast as you can get before USB 3.0 is widely available."

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