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Western Digital Launches Its First USB 3.0 HDD

 
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 douglasbrush
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Topic starter 06/01/2010 9:13 pm  

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Here is the new WD USB 3.0 HD and it's claims about speeds what are your thoughts? The drives would still be SATA in the box so why not just go with an e-sata drive? Most new systems have e-sata on the main board or via inexpensive interface cards.
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http//www.tomshardware.com/news/Western-Digital-USB-HDD-External,9351.html

Western Digital today revealed its latest addition to the My Book external hard drive series, boasting compatibility with the new, hot & juicy SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface. Granted consumers will need a new motherboard
with built-in USB 3.0 technology or install a PCI-e card with a SuperSpeed interface, consumers can now store meaty data on an external drive up to 10 times faster than the old and decrepit USB 2.0 interface.

"Consumers no longer have to wait for technology to keep up with their ideas. With the new super speed My Book 3.0 drives, consumers have the speed they need for resource-intensive video editing, animation, and graphic design applications," said Dale Pistilli, vice president of marketing for WD's branded products group.

Consumers can purchase the USB 3.0 My Book drive in two tasty flavors a standalone drive or as a kit with an included USB 3.0 PCI-e (gen2) adapter card. Naturally the latter would be ideal for those who don't have an itch (or the funds) to replace the entire motherboard, but want the extra burst of speed. Currently WD is offering the My Book 3.0 drives in 1 TB capacities only, but expect to ship 2 TB drives in the coming weeks.

Want one now? WD has the drives up for sale over on shopwd.com and at "select retailers." The price difference between the standalone and the kit version isn't the huge gap we expected either $179.99 for the standalone and $199.99 for the drive/PCI-e version.


   
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 Patrick4n6
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07/01/2010 1:35 am  

Firstly Doug, don't just post their advert verbatim. Either that or you're out of forensics and into the marketing business now.

Also, it's not going to get you 10X speed on a rotational drive. It may however be good if you have an external SSD.


   
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Topic starter 07/01/2010 1:44 am  

Firstly Doug, don't just post their advert verbatim. Either that or you're out of forensics and into the marketing business now.

Also, it's not going to get you 10X speed on a rotational drive. It may however be good if you have an external SSD.

Agreed - In my head I posted this saying "Here is the new WD USB 3.0 HD that was on TH this AM and it's claims what are your thoughts?"
sorry phone rang and I rushed the post oops

And that was what I was hoping for as well a discussion about the manufactures speed claims. Would love to see a real lab test with numbers because there are many things in this scenario that would effect the speeds.


   
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14/01/2010 8:56 am  

And that was what I was hoping for as well a discussion about the manufactures speed claims. Would love to see a real lab test with numbers because there are many things in this scenario that would effect the speeds.

There is a article on el Reg about the new Seagate Barracude 2TB USB3.0 - with speed test - not that impressive for the money

http//www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/01/13/review_storage_seagate_barracuda_xt/page4.html


   
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 Patrick4n6
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14/01/2010 12:15 pm  

And that was what I was hoping for as well a discussion about the manufactures speed claims. Would love to see a real lab test with numbers because there are many things in this scenario that would effect the speeds.

There is a article on el Reg about the new Seagate Barracude 2TB USB3.0 - with speed test - not that impressive for the money

http//www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/01/13/review_storage_seagate_barracuda_xt/page4.html

That article was about SATA3, not about USB3. But again, the current speed limiter for rotational drives is not the pipe, but the platters. I hate to be repetitive, but both these new technologies seem to be designed for SSDs, and manufacturers are wasting time combining old tech with new tech. Of course, the issue with SSDs right now is that they can't seem to combine low response time for multipe IOs with fast bulk data transfer. Once that all evens out, USB3 and SATA3 will be more beneficial.


   
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