Pretec has released its 16GB USB Flash Drive, which the company says is the highest capacity thumb drive in the world - even though Samsung has made a similar announcement a day before.

The 16GB (gigabytes) capacity is nearly the equivalent to 4 DVDs or 23 compact discs, which can store around 5400 photos in regular size or more than 4000 MP3 songs.

Pretec 16GB i-Disk II offers the users large space to manage the data for backup, storage, and file sharing. The new drive comes with access speed up to 25MB/sec and extra features providing data security and convenience such as password protection, data encryption, write protection, and/or auto-execute pre-defined or user-defined files.

With the same advanced flash memory packaging technology of Pretec 16GB i-Disk II, Pretec also announced an increased capacity to 8GB for i-Disk Touch, a USB Flash Drive with built-in fingerprint security; and i-Disk Connect+, a multi-function USB Flash Drive with fingerprint security and built-in hub for endless capacity and function expansion.

In addition, the amazing i-Disk Bulletproof (water, fire and bullet proof USB Flash Drive) capacity is now increased to 4GB.

Pretec 16GB i-Disk II is sampling now with mass production scheduled at Q4/2006.