First-Ever USB 3.0 Hard Drive 191
dreemteem writes "After 8 years of success, the USB 2.0 standard has begun its long journey into obsolescence. Dutch storage company Freecom has announced the first mainstream storage product based on 'SuperSpeed' USB 3.0. Buyers will be interested to hear that the new external Hard Drive XS 3.0 doesn't cost the earth at £99 (approx $160) for a 1TB drive, even though that excludes the £22.99 for a desktop PCI-bus controller necessary to make it work at its intended throughput. Laptop users can pair it with a £25.99 plug-in PC Card to achieve the same effect."
hmmm (Score:4, Funny)
Re:3.0 Wheres 4.0? (Score:1, Funny)
USB Eleventy.42 will be OVER NINE THOUSAND times faster than USB 2.0!
SuperSpeed? (Score:5, Funny)
Corrected Summary (Score:5, Funny)
"After 8 years of being a White Elephant, the USB 2.0 standard has begun its long-deserved journey into obsolescence. Dutch storage company Freecom has announced the first mainstream storage product based on 'SuperSpeed' USB 3.0. Sheep will be interested to hear that the new external Hard Drive XS 3.0 doesn't cost the earth at £99 (approx $160) for a 1TB drive, even though that excludes the £22.99 for a desktop PCI-bus controller necessary to drive up profit margins. Laptop users can pair it with a £25.99 plug-in PC Card to achieve the same effect. Subtle incompatibilities between manufactures, who will once again just ship the first implementation that almost works, will drive down the usefulness of USB 3.0, providing an excellent excuse for USB 4.0."
Seriously, has anyone gotten anywhere near USB 2.0's promised speed? Firewire would have been officially dead years ago if the claims of USB 2.0 were true.
Re:SuperSpeed? (Score:3, Funny)
No, that one runs at PlaidMBPS.
Re:SuperSpeed? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who Cares About Harddrives? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:3.0 Wheres 4.0? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Price premium for bleeding edge (Score:5, Funny)
The drive may not cost the earth, but that's still around 50% more than you'd pay for a 1TB external drive with a USB 2.0 interface.
Just sayin'
The first one out has a premium price. Faces on stun.
Re:Let's see some all-3.0 computers now! (Score:1, Funny)
Hello captain obvious.
yawn (Score:2, Funny)
bored now.
bring on faster SSDs and SATA-3.
spinning rust is dead.