First USB 3.0 Thumb Drive Debuts
November 16, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Storage
Super Talent has recently come out with what’s probably the world’s first thumb drive fully compatible with the USB 3.0 standard. Thus the RAIDDRIVE has the potential to transfer data at 4.8GB/s—under ideal conditions of course—promising transfer rates up to ten times faster than USB 2.0’s 480MB/s. Just for reference, that’s 4.8 gigabits and 480 megabits a second respectively.
Capacities are currently 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB. No word yet on pricing, but El Reg has shared a December debut date. The RAIDDRIVE is of course backward compatible with USB 2.0 ports, but will only achieve USB 2.0 speeds. The only motherboard I know right now that supports true USB 3.0 is the Asus P7P55D-E, available from NewEgg for a hefty $280(!)
ASUS P7P55D-E Premium LGA 1156 Intel P55 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Intel Motherboard
nice usb. thanks for posting
“that’s 4.8 gigabytes and 480 megabytes a second respectively.”
You’re off by a factor of 8. It’s 4.8 gigabits and 480 megabits respectively. And just because data can be transferred that fast doesn’t mean the flash drive can. This top of the line (as of June 2009) solid state drive caps out at about 250MB/s or about 2 gigabits/second. And according to your link they’re claiming to get up to 320Gb/s.
Impressive nonetheless. Just make sure to distinguish between megabits(Mb) and megabytes(MB).
Thanks for catching that. Corrected!
Not to mention the max speed is limited by the target media. Like if you’re trying to copy from an SSD to a hard drive, the max write speed of the HDD will be the bottleneck.