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Super Talent Technology is set to release their first USB 3.0 flash drive, the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 RAIDDrive.  It will be completely backwards compatible with USB 2.0, but with a USB 3.0 port it can deliver transfer speeds up to 200MB/sec.  When it launches this December – price unknown – it will be available in 3 capacities: 32GB, 64GB and 128GB.

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While the mass adoption of USB 3.0 is currently a long, dark and lonely road, a few storage companies have come forth with details regarding their impending drives that boast such compatibility.

Coming December 11th (of this year) Dane-elec’s line of USB 3.0 compatible hard drives, called Superspeed, will be available for purchase starting at $149.99.  Course at that price you’ll be scoring just 500GB of storage, but drop another $100 (or so) and you’ll quadruple your storage capacity.  Throw a bit more cash around and you’ll get your hands on an SSD version, which of course will maximize the drive’s USB 3.0 abilities of 250mbps.  …Continue reading: Dane-elec Announces USB 3.0 Hard Drives, Superspeed SO

USB 3.0 might be a few years away from mass adoption, but that hasn’t stopped Freecom from introducing the first ever USB 3.0 compatible external hard drive.  Available in capacities 1TB, 1.5Tb and 2TB, the Hard Drive XS 3.0 will be available this November starting at $175.  And just in case someone happens to toss one of these into your stocking, fear not for it is USB 2.0 compatible.

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By: Albert S

Intel announced the specs of their USB 3.0 “SuperSpeed” host controller standard. It’s an open, free standard supported by the major players including AMD, Microsoft, and Dell.

According to the specs, USB 3.0 maxes out at 4.8 Gb/s which is about 10x the speed of USB 2.0. Whoa Nelly. So what does this mean for you? Not much at the moment, but expect super speed (pun intended) transfers to your MP3 player sometime in the near future.