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USB 3.0 and Windows cloud option for Toshiba Canvio drives

Published on: 8th October, 2011

Toshiba recently upgraded its Canvio drives by launching its third generation. Its 2.5-inch portable drive gets a speed upgrade since the drive now supports USB 3.0, which brings it up to speed with regular disks. Windows users who receive the upgraded Canvio drives also get NTI’s BackupNow EZ for content backup locally or to the [...]

AMD will officially offer USB 3.0 support in chipsets

Published on: 18th April, 2011

AMD has recently confirmed its plans to offer various of its chipsets with USB 3.0 integration. This move is expected to offer momentum to USB 3.0 adoption among PC manufacturers, as chipset integration eliminates the need for separate components to handle this newer standard. However, Intel, the market leader, hasn’t yet added these capabilities to [...]

Plextor presents eSATA external Blu-ray disc burner with USB 3.0

Published on: 8th February, 2011

Plextor has presented its Blu-ray disc burner called PX-LB950UE. The new drive is among the first external Blu-ray burners with superspeed USB 3.0 and eSATA connections meant to maximize transfer rates for data and provide fast performance at reading and writing. The drive is able to write to double-layer discs with maximum capacities of 50GB, [...]

USB 3.0 diver by LaCie to equip Macs

Published on: 10th November, 2010

A new Mac USB 3.0 driver has been released by the storage maker LaCie. Currently, no Mac is shipping with a USB 3.0-ready port as a standard option and therefore the driver can only support accessories on Mac Pros equipped with a LaCie PCI Express adapter or MacBook Pros provided with the ExpressCard/34 adapter of [...]

External SSD drive from Iomega to have USB 3.0

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

Iomega has entered the external solid-state drives by making the External SSD Flash Drive. Using a 1.8-inch SSD, the storage has a very small footprint but still surpasses a rotating hard drive. It has 191MB per second peak read speeds as well as 130MB per second peak write speeds. The drive is equipped with a [...]

The world’s smallest-ever USB 3.0 drives from LaCie

Published on: 13th September, 2010

LaCie has recently unveiled the new line of small form factor USB 3.0 hard drive, claimed to be the smallest ever in the world. The company’s portable Rikiki and desktop-sized Minimus drives offer a high-speed 5Gbs/s performance over USB 3.0, in a brushed aluminum casing, which takes up less space. Both of them benefit from [...]

Lenovo’s ThinkPad W701 to have USB 3.0 and 16GB of RAM

Published on: 25th February, 2010

Lenovo has recently updated its highest-end series of ThinkPad W. The first ThinkPad with USB 3.0 is the W701, which should support the 5Gbps standard dedicated to very fast external hard drives as well as future peripherals down the line. The large case of the W701 supports up from 8GB up to 16GB of DDR3 [...]

The first Belkin USB 3.0 products

Published on: 25th February, 2010

Belkin’s product lineup has been recently expanded through various peripherals supporting the new USB 3.0 standard. The line includes two expansion cards: the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe Add-In Card, which is dedicated to desktop computers, and the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard adapter, especially designed for notebooks. The SuperSpeed A-B Cable and the SuperSpeed Premium Micro-B [...]

External USB 3.0 SSDs from Active Media

Published on: 23rd February, 2010

Active Media Products has recently presented its 2.5-inch external SSD drives, which benefits from USB 3.0 ports. It is expected that the Aviator-2 SuperSpeed SSDs have a four times faster performance than other HDDs, which depend on USB 2.0 connections. The Aviator-2 also has 4.8Gbps. Inside the USB 3.0 Aviator-2 case stands Active Media’s 64GB [...]

New USB 3.0 hard-disk enclosures from Brando

Published on: 26th December, 2009

USB 3.0 hard-disk enclosures are now available from Brando and are compatible with any 2.5-inch SATA hard-disk. The new device uses the USB 3.0 technology and provides a speed ten times much faster than the USB 2.0, up to 5Gbps. The USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 are also supported by the new enclosures. Brando created [...]

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