First-Ever USB 3.0 Hard Drive

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

[__aaaojf4823]

I would so much first post, but my usb 1.1 modem is not fast enough!

Re:3.0 Wheres 4.0?

[Anonymous Coward]

USB Eleventy.42 will be OVER NINE THOUSAND times faster than USB 2.0!

SuperSpeed?

[gEvil (beta)]

So is SuperSpeed USB 3.0 going to be faster than FullSpeed USB 3.0? And where does ExtremeSpeed USB 3.0 fit in? Is that the one that'll run at 11Mbps?

Corrected Summary

[hardburn]

"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?

[natehoy]

No, that one runs at PlaidMBPS.

Re:SuperSpeed?

[Capt.DrumkenBum]

And of course USB 5.0 will be called LudicrousSpeed.

Re:Who Cares About Harddrives?

[Nick Number]

You must be behind the times. I mean, I've never seen a toaster that didn't come equipped with FireWire.

Re:3.0 Wheres 4.0?

[Triela]

Spec now, or forever old your (US)Bs.

Re:Price premium for bleeding edge

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

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!

[Anonymous Coward]

Clearly you didn't understand my post. I was saying that until it's industry standard to include USB 3.0 on new computers the way 2.0 is now (and it was far from an overnight transition), we will continue seeing USB 2.0 as the highest speed USB ports on most new machines.

Hello captain obvious.

yawn

[Anonymous Coward]

bored now.

bring on faster SSDs and SATA-3.

spinning rust is dead.