You Will Want The Unitek SATA To USB 3.0 Adaptor One Day

This is so cool: Unitek’s new adaptor will connect any spare SATA hard drive to a PC using the 5Gbps USB 3.0 standard. And it only costs $US48. There’s only one little itty bitty problem:

Who has a PC or a Mac with USB 3.0? Anyone? Anyone?

Features

Supporting USB3.0 specification
The maximum transmission speed of USB3.0 allows for example 10-30 GBytes of video data to be copied to a 3.5 inch hard disk drive in 1/4 to 1/3 the time compared to the existing USB2.0 interface
SuperSpeed (5 Gbps) / high-speed (480 Mbps) / full-speed (12 Mbps)
Compliant to Universal Serial Bus 3.0 Specification, Revision 1.0
Compliant to Universal Serial Bus Specification, Revision 2.0
Mass Storage Class Bulk-Only Transport Compliant to Mass Storage Class Bulk-Only Transport, Revision 1.0
SATA Gen2i (3 Gbps) & Gen1i (1.5 Gbps) Compliant to Serial ATA Specification Revision 2.6
Supports ATA / ATAPI device
Supports 2TB over HDD
Supports Window 7 / Vista / Xp, Linux / Mac OS X
Dimension: 69 x 40 x 12mm (approx.)
Weight: 67g

One day I will get you, Unitek SATA to USB 3.0 adaptor! *shakes fist* Oh, you teaser, you. [Brando]

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    matt

    Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 2:26 AM

    I can think of a bigger problem:

    have you ever heard of one that converts SATA to USB2? probably can’t think of one, thats because you just get an external hard drive enclosure.

    an even bigger problem would be that any mobo with USB3 would be new, and no doubt have esata too, completely destroying any reason for it to exist.

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      Mark

      Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 9:39 AM

      Actually Matt, SATA-USB2 adapters are quite common, cheap and very handy to keep in your desk drawer. I often use them to connect HDD’s without needing a caddy or to open your PC case. Try an ebay search

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