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The folks over at Buffalo Technology have announced a screamingly fast external drive, the DriveStation DDR. By adding a 1 GB DDR3 cache to a standard SATA drive, they've created a USB3 hard drive with SSD transfer rates. Write speeds are doubled from around 170 MB/s to over 400 MB/s, which is pretty nippy in anyone's book, and read speeds
Following on from GNC's review of the MiniStation Air earlier this month, Buffalo have a launched the MiniStation Thunderbolt SSD. As you might guess from the name, it's a portable SSD with a Thunderbolt connection so it's ideal for connecting up with Apple Macs. Combining the SSD with Thunderbolt, the MiniStation has a read performance of more than 370 MB/s
The Buffalo MiniStation Air is "wireless streaming storage" for smartphones and tablets that provides 500 GB of extra space. Simply, it's a 500 GB portable hard drive with wifi and complementary apps for Android and iOS. The idea is that the MiniStation Air connects to your PC or laptop via USB 3 and gets loaded up with stacks of music
Akitio has come out with the Neutrino U3+ a stylish 2.5 Sata HDD enclosure that supports bus powered USB 3.0 or Firewire 800. The all Aluminum casing with heat sink guarantees your drive will not overheat. The best part is multiple drives can be daisy chained together using the firewire ports. Priced at $79.00 this is one of the lowest
Jeff Ravencraft, President and CEO of the USB Implementers Forum, was recently at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to talk a little about what is going on with USB these days. For a bit of background, the USB Implementers Forum sets the standards for what products can use the official USB logo on their gear and also trains
j5 create's background in USB display adaptors means they know a thing or two about using both hardware and software to create unique solutions. j5 Create's Wormhole cable is one such solution as it joins two computers into one...and they don't even have to be running the same OS. Fred shows Jeffrey and Steve some of the benefits of this innovative technology,
Todd talked to Scott at the Toshiba booth about the new "SuperSpeed" USB 3.0 Thumb drives that will be available this spring. The drives are up to 10 times faster then USB 2.0 at 220mb/sec reading and 94mb/sec writing. They will be available in 32GB and 64GB sizes and will be $100 and $200 respectively. Scott also showed off Toshiba's