Plextor
Sign in to savePlextor (styled PLEXTOR) (; ) is a Taiwanese (formerly Japanese) consumer electronics brand, best known for solid-state drives and optical disc drives.
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- Plextor
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- Plextor logo.svg
- Company <! but PLEXTOR is a brand >.foundation
- Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
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- Taipei, Taiwan
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- Computer hardware
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- SSDs, optical disc drives, networking tools
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- Shinano Kenshi
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Country
- Taiwan
- Headquarters
- Tokyo
- Official website
- www.plextor.com
- Significant event
- dissolution
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Company
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- Optical drives
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Plextor (styled PLEXTOR) (; ) is a Taiwanese (formerly Japanese) consumer electronics brand, best known for solid-state drives and optical disc drives.
==Company== The brand name Plextor was used for all products manufactured by the Electronic Equipment Division and Printing Equipment Division of the Japanese company Plextor Inc., which was a 100%-owned subsidiary company of Shinano Kenshi Corp., also a Japanese company. The brand was formerly known as TEXEL, under which name it introduced its first CD-ROM optical disc drive in 1989. The brand has been used for flash memory products, Blu-ray players and burners, DVD-ROM burners, CD-ROM burners, DVD and CD media, network hard disks, portable hard disks, digital video recorders, and floppy disk drives.
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