Long-awaited 3.0 technologies have arrived. The third generation connection USB In fact, it was legally presented last January to Las Vegas, At the CES 2010. The new port is not a revolution, you know, but optimizing the recent wants, including multimedia and cross-media, definitely yes, speed 10 times higher than the recent (about 1 GB of data in 30 seconds), Backward compatibility with devices 1.1 and 2.0, and concentration to energy saving. Pending new devices come with incorporated 3.0, recognizable by the light blue / blue alternative differs from the prior technologies.

Actually, the market has already unleashed in launching new products at 3.0 interfaces, as described Mario Cianflone de IlSole 24 Hours: Which is the first proposals?

One of the first external tough drives equipped port is 3.0 My Book of Western Digital In two versions (with or without PCI-e), whose skills are even on the order of terabytes. The tests performed by experts from My Book IlSole 24 Hours reveals the distinct features of the wireless 3.0 “instantaneous transfer very big files, like cinema in HD,” though “back-up of 200 pieces of music requested, stopwatch in hand, merely 2 ½ minutes of time.”

If My Book is presently the top in terms of external tough drives PC, Buffalo lance among the first line of portable external tough drive MiniStation HD-Lite USB 3.0 PEU3, On sale in April. This is a group of device design fresh and colorful, in 6 variants (gold, pink, blue, red, white or black) in capacity of 500 or 640 GB Interface 3.0 (but backwards compatibility with the standard 2.0) that swear the transfer of up to 5 GB of data per second. The novelty is twofold, because MiniStation Lite are provided distinct software update 3.0 for Mac or PC, and get better performance.

Finally, if you have a preference to upgrade to 3.0 of the catalogs of main brands, but can not resist the new technology, we are the first ultra quick pen drive. Super Talent launches articulate Drive 3.0, a line of elegantly designed pen drive, 16 to 32 GB of memory designed for the general public who want great performance: an average speed of 50 Mb / s, enough?