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My Book 3 USB 3 1TB external drive
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Friday February 19, 2010
Gadget TV
Friday February 19, 2010
The next evolution of USB,
USB 3.0
, has captured our imaginations. We all hate the spinning beachballs, the rotating hourglasses, the rotating glossy donuts, the slowly tricking sands through an hourglass icon, the never progressing progress bars associated with file transfers. Sorry, where were we? Oh yeah, file transfer. The next generation ofUSB external drives
promise up to 5 gigabit transfers speeds and backwards compatibility with previous USB standards.Download this episode now
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My Book 3.0 External Hard Drive Kit
1TB, $200, 2TB, $280
- Includes a USB 3.0 PCI Express card to add USB 3.0 capability to your desktop computer.
- Includes the cable.
- Up to theoretical 5 gigabit per second (Gbps) transfer speed. You won't get that in the real world yet; the physical hard drive itself cannot transfer that fast.
- SATA, the most current drive connection standard, has a transfer speed limit of 3 Gbps.
- 2,000 songs in one minute vs ~six minutes as compared with the USB 2.0 version of the same drive.
- 500 photos in a few seconds vs. 45 seconds as compared with the USB 2.0 version of the same drive.
- Two hour HD movie in 1.5 minutes vs. ~13 minutes as compared with the USB 2.0 version of the same drive.
- Backward compatible with existing USB standards, either on the HD side or on the computer side.
- Cool design; created to look like a book on a shelf. Save the Western Digital logo and the flashing LED, it could actually fool someone.
1TB, $200, 2TB, $280
- Includes a USB 3.0 PCI Express card to add USB 3.0 capability to your desktop computer.
- Includes the cable.
- Up to theoretical 5 gigabit per second (Gbps) transfer speed. You won't get that in the real world yet; the physical hard drive itself cannot transfer that fast.
- SATA, the most current drive connection standard, has a transfer speed limit of 3 Gbps.
- 2,000 songs in one minute vs ~six minutes as compared with the USB 2.0 version of the same drive.
- 500 photos in a few seconds vs. 45 seconds as compared with the USB 2.0 version of the same drive.
- Two hour HD movie in 1.5 minutes vs. ~13 minutes as compared with the USB 2.0 version of the same drive.
- Backward compatible with existing USB standards, either on the HD side or on the computer side.
- Cool design; created to look like a book on a shelf. Save the Western Digital logo and the flashing LED, it could actually fool someone.
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