Portable hard drives have always been a huge hit because they provide massive storage with convenient portability. Now, SSDs are the latest hit and since they are using USB 3.0, they provide the fastest transfer speed possible.
You read that pretty correctly. And I do not mean that you use some kind of magical driver which will help your USB 2.0 port shell out speed that matches with that of USB 3.0. There isn’t any such software available yet! What we discuss here is the newly launched Seagate adapter which can use your ExpressCard slot to convert it to USB 3.0.
Henceforth, you will end up using the much faster (when compared to USB 3.0) USB service without even upgrading your hardware to the new technology, USB 3.0. But, why will you want to use Seagate’s adapter when you don’t have any device that requires USB 3.0? The answer is simple; Seagate has launched its new set of hard disk drives namely GoFlex which are fast and henceforth worth buying. After all, USB 3.0 is 10 times faster than USB 2.0 and why will you want to miss out on such a furious device? Continue reading »
The first attempt at USB 3.0 from the Taiwanese flash memory maker PQI and not bad at all. The Cool Drive U366 has a nice, elegant aluminum exterior design with a clear plastic lid. Of course, what matters the most is the new PQI Cool Drive U366′s functionality, boasting USB 3.0 means it will boast 5Gbps/sec bandwidth max. This makes it ten times the bandwidth of USB 2.0 which many of us have been using for years. It will also be capable of transfer speeds of up to 97MB/s.
