Western Digital just entered the USB 3.0 arena with its MyBook 3.0 HBA, it still have the distinctive MyBook design which makes it looks slick and manimalist (compared to Buffalos Drive Station). Of-course we know that having USB 3.0 makes it capable of tranfer rate of up to 5Gb/s, faster than USB 2.0, Firewire 800 or even eSATA. The 1TB MyBook 3.0 will cost $180 drive only, you at $20 [...]
Desktop computers can get advantage of USB 3.0‘s blazing fast data transfer using a PCI ecpress card, but how about Laptops? This StarTech 2 port USB 3.0 expresscard adapter will bring you superspeed USB 3 data transfer without buying a new laptop. It’s backward compatible so you can use your USB 2 and earlier devices.
Most HD Movie lovers converts Blu-ray content to digital format, something that can be saved on an external hard drive for easy archive and retrieval but I’m not sure if people will still burn HD content on a regular basis. If you’re the one who wants to create and burn HD movies to a Blu-ray disk then don’t settle less than Buffalo’s 12x Blu-ray burner, the fastest as of November [...]
We have seen several external hard disk, some stylish and some just good for back up however this is the first time that we have our eyes on the first ever USB 3.0 superspeed powered External Hard Drive. DriveStation™ HD-HXU3 can reach up to 120Mbps, that’s three times faster than the currently dominant USB 2.0.
Today the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced that the USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed) Compliance and Certification Program is now ready. And once the product have been reviewed and passed USB-IF standards, it can have a SuperSpeed logo to it. So this means the current USB 2.0 on my current iMac will be obsolete sooner than I think. Luckily I still have 2 years to dispose this Mac, perhaps by that time [...]
Take a look at the latest coneector, the USB 3.0, from MaximumPC. I am sure that most of PC users, if not all, already knows what a USB or a Universal Serial Bus is. The USB 2.0 also known as USB Hi-Speed boosted the original 12Mbps data rate of the first USB to 480Mmb/s over eight years ago, and now the USB 3.0, dubbed as USB Superspeed, is set to [...]
