First USB3 hard drive announced

[InvisiBill]

From http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/24/1915219/First-Ever-USB-30-Hard-Drive...

http://news.techworld.com/storage/3202573/freecom-outs-first-ever-usb-30-hard-drive/

Buyers will be interested to hear that the new external Hard Drive XS 3.0 doesn't cost the earth at £99 (approx $160) for a 1TB drive, even though that excludes the £22.99 for a desktop PCI-bus controller necessary to make it work at its intended throughput. Laptop users can pair it with a £25.99 plug-in PC Card to achieve the same effect.

I'm very glad to see it reasonably priced. I don't think it should cost that much more to manufacture, as it's probably not much more than changing a chip on the interface board.

Lucassen also put his finger on another application that should be boosted by the arrival of USB 3.0, namely transparent encryption. "The Hard Drive XS 3.0 also outperforms the competition in terms of security. Our USB 3.0 solution will have high-speed hardware encryption with AES 256 bit - this is not only the fastest but also the safest storage solution on the market," he said.

This is great too. Currently, simply using encryption makes you look like you have something to hide, because it generally takes quite a bit of work to get an encryption system working. Anything we can do to make encryption more common is good for everyone's security.

 

[Pyrolistical]

So just because it has a super fast connection, now it can claim to be fastest hard drive on the market? Fastest USB hard drive sure...

Blame marketing.

 

[novadude]

So just because it has a super fast connection, now it can claim to be fastest hard drive on the market? Fastest USB hard drive sure...

Blame marketing.

I've had tech support tell me that the interface speed of 1.5/3Gbps is the drive's speed.
Blame idiots

 

[epimetheus]

So let me get this straight. I'm supposed to plug a USB 3.0 controller, capable of 600MB/s, into the PCI bus, capable of 133MB/s? Surely they mean PCIe, because a USB 3.0 PCI controller would be plain stupid.

 

[MScrip]

So let me get this straight. I'm supposed to plug a USB 3.0 controller, capable of 600MB/s, into the PCI bus, capable of 133MB/s? Surely they mean PCIe, because a USB 3.0 PCI controller would be plain stupid.

It would still be faster than the 30MB/s I get from USB now