USB thumb drives that are bigger than my hard drive circa 2001 are great. Waiting 5, 10, 15 minutes for the files to move to that USB 2.0 drive isn’t so great. Now that USB 3.0 is becoming a common thing in laptops and devices, we can finally get faster flash drives as well.
Enter Sony’s USB 3.0-compatible MicroVault drive. It comes in 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB sizes and transfers 1s and 0s faster than you can blink (which is somewhere around 60MB/s). Plus it keeps the same retractable form factor that the previous USB 2.0 iterations had. Did you buy an “ultrabook” with one of those blue ports? You might want one of these to go with it. [TechCrunch]
John
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 8:57 AMHow much?
Jaezass
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 9:09 AMBout bloody time. I really hope these things aren’t ridiculously priced!
SilentWolf
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 1:41 PMIts Sony…
Vebi
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 10:03 AMIt’s unlikely you’ll see 60 MB/s. It depends on your hard drive as well.
Link
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 4:04 PMif you have a SSD or are rendering etc straight to the usb you will
MotorMouth
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 10:06 AM64Gb is a serious boost and via USB 3.0 would be viable for working from/to. Price almost becomes irrelevant with this kind of power.
vin
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 10:10 AMyeaaaa… with USB3.0 i really hope 2012 also sees a jump in low end capacity…
if a knife company (Victorinox) can release a 1Tb thumb drive, then i want to see baseline AFFORDABLE thumdrives at at LEAST 64Gb
Kent
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 11:03 AMdats beautiful yo’