Asia's first Tough Mudder to be in Bali, Indonesia

Source: Tough Mudder Indonesia. Chairi Ibrahim, Project Manager, Seroja Partners (left), Gandrasta Bangko, Business Director, Mesa Race (middle) and Ridzki Syahputera, Partner, Seroja Partners (right) at the launch of Tough Mudder Indonesia. 

Tough Mudder Indonesia has officially been launched. With 2.5 million participants in more than 200 events in six countries worldwide, Tough Mudder – said to be the world’s most recognised endurance series and called Probably the Toughest Event on the Planet, – will debut in Asia on 1 and 2 October 2016 in Bali, Indonesia.

To bring the event to the Indonesian market, Tough Mudder has partnered with market entry specialist Seroja Partners, an advisory practice based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mesa Race, race planning & management company in Indonesia, will help Seroja Partners to build obstacles at the Tough Mudder Indonesia arena.

Bali, Indonesia has been chosen to take part in the global event series due to its vibrant culture and the growing demand for health and fitness events in the tropics. “Indonesia is a strategic intersection between Asia and Australia. As a popular tourist destination, we are confident an inaugural event in Bali will attract both local and international participants and spectators,” said Ridzki Syahputera, a Partner at Seroja Partners.

“The number of sports enthusiasts in Indonesia has grown vastly and we see this as an opportunity to introduce Tough Mudder to the market. We are incredibly excited to bring the premier adventure challenge series in the world to Indonesia for the first time.”

Founded in the US in 2010, Tough Mudder is a 16km to 20km obstacle course run designed by the British Special Forces to test physical strength, stamina and mental grit. With no winners or clocks to race against, the challenge emphasises teamwork, camaraderie and the satisfaction of accomplishing something new.

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Check out Tough Mudder Australia, in Queensland, Sydney and Melbourne

SanDisk introduces Extreme Portable SSD drives

Source: SanDisk

SanDisk, a flash storage solutions provider, has entered the portable SSD market with a family of high-performance drives, including the SanDisk Extreme 900 Portable SSDs, which it says is the world’s fastest line of USB Type C-based portable SSDs; and the SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSDs, a new family of pocket-sized, rugged drives.

The SanDisk Extreme 900 drives feature speeds of up to nine times faster than a portable hard drive¹, while the SanDisk Extreme 500 drives offer speeds up to four times faster¹. These powerful solutions are ideal for photographers, videographers, creative professionals and tech enthusiasts looking to move large files quickly.

“As a recognised leader in developing solutions for professional photographers and videographers, we designed this game-changing family of offerings to provide our customers with even greater speeds and capacities to keep up with rapidly increasing demands for high-quality content,” said Mark Eng, Country Manager, SanDisk Singapore.

“Whether a professional or amateur, this level of portability, speed and capacity is exceptional, and we believe it will transform the way people create and produce high quality video content—ultimately saving them time and money.”

The SanDisk Extreme 900 Portable SSDs are all about performance and capacity. Available in up to 1.92TB*, the new drives have a compact, durable aluminium case and feature transfer speeds of up to 850MBps**. These new drives come with both USB Type C and Type A cables to provide the ultimate flexibility.

The SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSD is less than half the size of your smartphone and delivers more than four times the speed of a portable hard drive¹. The drive allows users to transfer big videos and photo libraries at up to 415MBps**. Available in up to 480GB* capacity, this light-weight yet durable drive has a black finish with rubber bumpers and a metal ring that allows easy attachment to a bag.

The Windows 10-compatible portable SSDs are built to sustain the most rugged environments, featuring both temperature and impact-resistant materials². The new family of SanDisk Extreme Portable SSDs also include SanDisk SecureAccess software with 128-bit encryption to secure files³.

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The SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSDs are available in Singapore in capacities of 120GB, 240GB and 480GB, at MSRPs of S$188, S$288 and S$499 respectively. The SanDisk Extreme 900 SSDs will be available in Singapore at a later date in capacities of 480GB, 960GB and 1.92TB, at MSRPs of S$769, S$1,149 and S$1,899, respectively. Both new SSD lines feature a three-year warranty⁴.

Read the WorkSmart Asia blog post about SanDisk's mobile memory solutions.

*1TB=1,000,000,000,000 bytes. 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes. Actual user storage is less.

**Based on internal testing; performance may be lower depending on drive capacity, host device, OS and application. 1MB=1,000,000 bytes.

1 As compared to a 500GB portable hard drive based on internal speed performance tests.

2 Shock resistant (up to 800G) and vibration resistant (5.35 root-mean-square acceleration (gRMS), 50 to 2,000 HZ), withstands extremes in temperature (from -200^oC to +700^oC)

3 Password protection uses 128-bit AES encryption and is supported by Mac OS X v10.6+, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

4 See www.sandisk.com/wug