Japan's Buffalo has become the latest storage product provider to offer M-Systems' 16MB FlashDisc, an apparently "exciting" new take on the old USB Flash disk concept that packages the solid-state storage into a circular shell reminiscent of 1970s computer tapes.

Buffalo this week joined Memorex in the US and Verbatim in Europe, the three "global brand partners" who are taking M-Systems' product to market. As are its fellows, Buffalo will be offering four of the 16MB, 6cm diameter disks on a spindle. It will make them available to Japanese buyers at the end of the month. ®

Related stories

• Buffalo's USB HDDs get bigger, faster (9 August 2007)
• Buffalo targets Mac users with 1TB high-speed storage box (16 July 2007)
• Yes! It's the gold ingot USB hub (24 November 2006)
• Japanese get external internal hard drive cooler kit (31 August 2006)
• Motorola moots USB rechargeable phone recharger (20 June 2006)
• Swiss firm touts medical USB key (1 June 2006)
• Kowon readies anti-glance LCD glasses (10 May 2006)
• Wurtlizer hip to the iPod beat (19 April 2006)
• Firm pitches $2,800 64GB USB Flash disk (7 April 2006)
• Verbatim to offer 'reincarnated floppy disk' in Europe (17 March 2006)
• Memorex revives 1970s tape look for Flash disk era (16 March 2006)
• Firm launches 'world's smallest' external HDD (14 February 2006)
• Imation wraps 256MB Flash round wrist (31 January 2006)