USB 3.0

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…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 10

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 adapters for higher-speed transfers. https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-first-3tb-external-hard-drive-from-seagate-5575111 The Price $250 for the standard USB 2.0 adapter, $50 for FireWire 800/USB 2.0, $40 for USB 3.0 and $80 for USB 3.0…

Reviews Jason Chen Jul 13

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 x 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. The reason the monitor requires two USB 3.0 ports is that “a single USB 3.0 port can only…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jun 9

Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle Slurps HDMI Over USB 3.0

If you’ve wanted to capture the HDMI signal from set top boxes or your camcorder straight to you computer, the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle is an inexpensive breakout box that can do just that…providing your computer has USB 3.0. Priced at $200, the box accepts and captures HDMI signals as 10 bit, uncompressed signals. That’s interesting…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 15

SuperCrypt USB 3.0 Flash Drive Soothes Even the Most Paranoid Early Adopters

I’m imagining a Venn diagram of 1.) People who’ve already built a PC compatible with USB 3.0 and 2.) people who are gravely concerned about data security. The middle section is quite large! Hence, the Super Talent SuperCrypts. These jumbo-sized flash drives, which are backwards compatible with USB 2.0, have been built around AES hardware…

Privacy & Security John Herrman Mar 3

Belkin’ SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe Card and ExpressCard Grant Older PCs USB 3.0 Powers

Hey, you know about USB 3.0 by now, right? It’s here! It’s fast! And while Belkin’s SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe Card and ExpressCard may not be superspeedier than any other USB 3.0 product, they are early to the market. Belkin’s SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe add-in card gives your computer two USB 3.0 ports, which means…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 23

New Chipset May Triple the Speed of USB 3.0

Hardware manufacturer NEC has built a chipset which could allow USB 3.0 to reach speeds of up to 16Gbps. In comparison, the fastest technology hitting the production lines right now is Intel’s Light Peak, “which could provide as much as 10Gbps by the end of this year.” It will take some time before this chipset…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Feb 17

The Infamous Hard Drive Dock, Now Imbued With USB 3.0

If viruses evolved as quickly as USB hard drive docks, mankind would be but a rotted pile of bones littered with the occasional bottle of green NyQuil. https://gizmodo.com/progress-on-the-march-brandos-sata-hard-drive-dock-now-5200391 The $80 Sharkoon SATA QuickPort Duo is a watershed in 2.5-inch/3.5-inch SATA to USB hard drive dock design as it transcends the accomplishments of yore with the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 16

USB 3.0 Gets Its First Four-Port Hub

Buffalo today unveiled the first-even four-port USB 3.0 hub. Right now? May not be that useful. But sooner than you think, this is going to be the multi-port hub that you need. USB 3.0 has already started working its way onto PCs, and it won’t be long before it’s become the new standard. As well…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 15

Dell Precision M6500 Hops On USB 3.0 and Core i5/i7 Trains

Dell’s Precision M6500 is the next in an increasingly long line of notebooks upgrading to Core i5, but it’ll be one of the first to also ship with an optional USB 3.0 port. The Precision M6500 currently ships with a quad-core i7 for $2,750, but starting late February you’ll be able to configure it to…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 5

Souped Up HP Envy 15 Shipping With USB 3.0

The HP Envy 15 isn’t my favorite laptop around, but if you buy one configured with both a Core i7 and ATI Radeon HD 5830, it’ll arrive loaded with USB 3.0. Oooooh! [CNET via Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/hp-envy-15-inch-review-5413076

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 14

OCZ’s External SSD Now Comes In USB 3.0 Variety

OCZ announced their new line of SSDs for the first part of 2010, and it includes an external USB 3.0 SSD that can transfer at speeds up to 357 megabytes per second. The portable drive is expected to come in 64, 128 and 256-gigabyte sizes, but pricing and availability are still unknown. [Engadget]

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 6

Seagate Black Armor PS110 is a Portable USB 3.0 HDD

The obvious reason here to be excited about Seagate’s new Black Armor PS110 500-gigabyte portable HDD is because it uses a USB 3.0 connection and transfers 3x faster than current USB 2.0 drives. Seagate says the drive can transfer at speeds of 100 MB/s and is backwards compatible with the USB 2.0 standard. The drive…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 6

WD’s First USB 3.0 Hard Drive Is Incredibly Fast, and You Want One

Thank God for USB 3.0. I was getting really tired of staring at the progress bar for seconds (seconds!) while my shit transfers. WD just announced their first MyBook external drive with 3.0, and it looks great. The MyBook 3.0 drive is available in either a 1TB or 2TB capacity, and in either a drive-only…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jan 5

You Will Want the Unitek SATA to USB 3.0 Adapter One Day

This is so cool: Unitek’s new adapter will connect any spare SATA hard drive to a PC using the 5 Gbps USB 3.0 standard. And it only costs $48. There’s only one little itty bitty problem: Who has a PC or a Mac with USB 3.0? Anyone? Anyone? Features Supporting USB3.0 specification The maximum transmission…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 28

LaCie 2Big: The First USB 3.0 RAID Drive

You can’t buy them until early 2010, but LaCie’s next generation 2Big drives will be the first USB 3.0 devices to support dual-SATA-disk RAID 0/1 configurations, promising real time HD video editing and burst speeds up to 275MB/s. [BW]

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 17

What’s Wrong With a USB 3.0 ExpressCard?

Well, there really isn’t much you can do with USB 3.0 yet for starters. And people who still have laptops with ExpressCard slots don’t strike me as the early adopter type. Oh, and then there is the AC adapter. You see, in order to supply the full 900mA for each port you will need weigh…

Tech News Sean Fallon Dec 1

Buffalo’s USB 3.0 External Drive Arrives in the U.S

As expected, the DriveStation HD-HXU3 is the first external USB 3.0 drive in the U.S. It promises transfers up to 4.8Gbps (compared to USB 2.0’s 480Mbps) and Buffalo has a two-port USB 3.0 PCI Express card to get you started. https://gizmodo.com/buffalos-hd-hu3-poised-to-be-the-first-usb-3-0-hard-dri-5376409 There’s no price yet on the USB 3.0 PCI Express card (IFC-PCIE2U3), but it’s…

Tech News Danny Allen Nov 24

The First USB 3.0 Flash Drive Is a Wide Load

Super Talent‘s first USB 3.0 flash drive, is huge—about the same size as Corsair’s Voyager, in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB sizes. It’ll push those gigs of Zatoichi rips at 4.8Gbps, or about 10x faster than USB 2.0. https://gizmodo.com/corsair-flash-voyager-128gb-usb-drive-as-big-and-fast-5393180 Of course, you need a computer running one of these motherboards or cards, since Intel’s dragging ass…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 4

Nvidia Confirms Intel’s Senseless USB 3.0 Delay Until 2011

Bad news: Nvidia has confirmed Intel’s stance on USB 3.0—no Intel chipsets will support the new standard until 2011. Short of Intel stating something different, USB 3.0 probably won’t hit mass consumption until then. Is there any hope? We’ve already seen an Intel motherboard hit the market with USB 3.0, but it’s technically manufactured by…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 4

iBuyPower Juices All Desktops With Free USB 3.0 Power

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

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

Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle Slurps HDMI Over USB 3.0

SuperCrypt USB 3.0 Flash Drive Soothes Even the Most Paranoid Early Adopters

Belkin’ SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe Card and ExpressCard Grant Older PCs USB 3.0 Powers

New Chipset May Triple the Speed of USB 3.0

The Infamous Hard Drive Dock, Now Imbued With USB 3.0

USB 3.0 Gets Its First Four-Port Hub

Dell Precision M6500 Hops On USB 3.0 and Core i5/i7 Trains

Souped Up HP Envy 15 Shipping With USB 3.0

OCZ’s External SSD Now Comes In USB 3.0 Variety

Seagate Black Armor PS110 is a Portable USB 3.0 HDD

WD’s First USB 3.0 Hard Drive Is Incredibly Fast, and You Want One

You Will Want the Unitek SATA to USB 3.0 Adapter One Day

LaCie 2Big: The First USB 3.0 RAID Drive

What’s Wrong With a USB 3.0 ExpressCard?

Buffalo’s USB 3.0 External Drive Arrives in the U.S

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Nvidia Confirms Intel’s Senseless USB 3.0 Delay Until 2011

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