Vantec
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Computer hardware Electronics |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | 43951 Boscell Road, Fremont, California, 94538 |
| Products | Disk enclosure, Laptop cooler, Computer cooling, Computer power supply and more |
| Website | www.VantecUSA.com |
Vantec Thermal Technologies is a privately held multinational corporation with headquarters and an R&D team in the US, sales/purchasing office in Taiwan and factories in Taiwan, Korea and China. Vantec designs and manufactures thermal products and computer peripherals. Consumers can buy Vantec products from brick-and-mortar electronics stores or online retailers. The company does not sell to end-users directly.
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[edit] History
Vantec was founded in 1994 in Fremont, CA.[1] The company started as a manufacturer of CPU cooling fans for system integrators and end-users. In the late 1990s, Vantec gained recognition notably in overclocking AMD processors.
The company launched TMD Tip-Magnetic Driving CPU cooling fans in 2002. The popularity of quiet home entertainment computers made this product line advantageous Vantec. In the same year, Vantec also introduced the NXP-101 multi-function front panel. This product is the first on the market with front USB and Firewire ports. It became a standard on many current computer cases.
In 2002, the company introduced its first computer power supply unit (PSU), which was first on the consumer market with three cooling fans and a black brushed aluminum casing.[2] This design became popular for high-end power supplies as the heat and power consumption from high-performance video cards increased. Vantec has carried external hard disk enclosures since 2004. The NexStar 3 series enclosures were the first external hard drive enclosures on the market to adopt mirror-finished double-coated aluminum casings with a variety of colors (black, blue, red and silver).
The company moved to a new facility in 2004 within the Pacific Commons Shopping Center where it is adjacent to a Costco and the future Cisco Field ballpark of the Oakland Athletics.
[edit] Markets
Vantec products are distributed worldwide. The US headquarters manages the North American markets. The Taiwan branch manages European, South American and Asian countries including Australia and New Zealand.
[edit] Products
[edit] Storage products
- External hard disk enclosures: NEXSTAR, NEXSTAR 2, NEXSTAR 3, NEXSTAR GX, NEXSTAR DX, NEXSTAR LX, NEXSTAR SX, NEXSTAR MX, NEXSTAR CX, NEXSTAR Hard Drive Dock, IDE to USB Adapter, SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter and IDE to SATA converter.
- Removable hard drive racks: EZ Swap, EZ Swap2 and EZ Swap EX.
- Portable media player: AVOX AVX-100TX.
- SATA controllers: SATA PCI host cards, eSATA cardbus and serial ATA PCI-E host cards.
[edit] Peripherals
- USB devices: USB hubs, USB card readers and USB PCI cards.
- Power supplies: Stealth and ION series.
- Cables: IDE, Floppy and SCSI rounded cables.
[edit] Cooling products
- Case fans: Stealth, Tornado, Thermoflow and Spectrum series.
- System cooling: Vortex hard drive cooling systems, chipset coolers, fan cards, video card and memory coolers.
- CPU coolers.
[edit] Notebook accessories
- Notebook coolers and water coolers.
- Notebook docking stations, keypads, and security locks.
[edit] PC Mods
- Quiet solutions: case fan and power supply vibration damper kits.
- UV fans, cold cathode lights, UV LED fans, UV slot protectors.
- UV reactive cable sleeving kits.
[edit] References
- ^ "VantecUSA.com About Us". Archived from the original on 2008-02-09. Retrieved 2008-06-01.
- ^ "Vantec Stealth 470w PSU Review". Retrieved 2008-06-08.
