usb 3.0

Rumour: Intel’s Chief River Will Bring USB 3.0 To The Masses

According to Digitimes – a sentence often fraught with danger – Intel’s Chief River processor platform will be announced at CES in January, arrive in early 2012, and bring with it native support for USB 3.0.

October 30, 2010

Steve Jobs: ‘We Don’t See USB 3 Taking Off At This Time’

A curious Apple fan decided to email Steve Jobs a note asking about whether there’ll be USB 3.0 support in Macs soon. This was the reply:

October 16, 2010

Expensive Yet Fast Describes Iomega’s USB 3.0 SSD Flash Drives

USB 3.0 is fast. Faster than standard 7200RPM disks can handle. So how do you make external storage faster to better fill up the transfer pipe? By putting an SSD inside.

September 15, 2010

Kingston USB 3.0 Flash Drives Start At $US89 For 16GB

Kingston has just debuted three USB 3.0 flash drives. Available in 16GB ($US89), 32GB ($IS138) and 64GB (a hefty $US270) models, the flash drives can attain write speeds of 60Mbps and read speeds of 80Mbps. [PR Newswire via Crunchgear]

Access Your External Drives With LaCie’s USB 3.0 RAID Box

Those of you looking to speedily dump and access large clumps of data may consider LaCie’s first ever 2big USB 3.0 RAID storage array. The $US349 box offers speeds of up to 205MB per second and storage up to 4TB. [LaCie]

September 9, 2010

USB 3.0 Hard Drives So Fast And Small Even A Monkey Wants Them

I don’t know what this cute little creature is up to, but the hard drives he’s fondling are some of the world’s smallest USB 3.0 drives: The LaCie Rikiki and the Minimus.

August 24, 2010

Iomega’s Portable USB 3.0 Drives Cost The Same As USB 2.0

USB 3.0 adoption’s been slow in a very chicken-and-egg way. Manufacturers don’t want to increase costs without consumer interest, and there’s little consumer interest without computers being able to use it. Iomega’s solving the consumer half of the problem.

August 11, 2010
Computing

iBuyPower Juices All Desktops With Free USB 3.0 Power

There’s no question that USB 3.0 is the future; it’s just a question of when it’ll arrive en masse. iBuyPower’s decided to be in the vanguard, putting USB 3.0 in all of its desktops for no added charge. iBuyPower ships notoriously rugged rigs, so while there’s still not a lot of USB 3.0 compatible devices out there letting you take advantage of the spec, it’s good to know that serious desktops are seriously future-proof.

July 13, 2010

Lightning Review: Seagate’s 3TB GoFlex Desk External Hard Drive

Seagate’s GoFlex Desk is the world’s first single-drive 3TB external hard disk. It isn’t egregiously expensive, even though you have to add in the extra costs of adaptors for higher-speed transfers.

June 10, 2010

3M’s USB 3.0 Monitor Wastes Two Ports While Saving Energy

This 18.5-inch screen doesn’t exactly look exciting with its 1366×768 resolution, but it has a secret: It draws about half the power of a standard monitor and it does it through two USB 3.0 ports.

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