Tech Master Guide

USB 3.0 is the newly defined standard by USB Organization with a much higher transmission rate. It is the newest technology in the market. Only certain high end chipset and motherboard having this feature. Dane-Elec is one of the rare company who has unveiled a new series of USB 3.0 external hard disk drive targeted for high end market.

The USB controller is capable to maintain an extremely high data transmission rate of up to 250MBps, which is almost ten times faster than those USB 2.0 based external drives in market today. The new drive will be available in memory capacity from the range of 500GB up to 2TB in both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch standard form factor. Besides, users will have an option to get a much more reliable SSD in either 80GB or 160GB depending on their usage and affordability.

Not to worry about if your PC system doesn’t support USB 3.0 port yet, the manufacturer has taken extra steps to validate and come out with a PCIe or ExpressCard to USB 3.0 adapter so that existing users can utilize the commonly available higher bandwidth ExpressCard slot as a replacement for conventional USB 2.0 ports. Priced at $180 for the 500GB hard disk drive and $400 or $800 for the 80GB and 160GB SSD respectively, So SuperSpeed USB 3.0 compliant external drives will be commercialized by December 11th 2009.