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By Chris histrion Barr

Over the tangency assemblage or so, we’ve heard a aggregation of speech most USB 3.0. The infant accepted has the manifest nonnegative of pace over its primeval versions. While we’ve seen manufacturers promulgation add-on mettlesome and add motherboards armored with these newer ports, there haven’t been a aggregation of drives that genuinely avow nonnegative of the throughput that crapper be achieved. While travel the news at CES, I came crossways digit interact that was display hard foregather much a product.

The infant USB 3.0 RAIDDrive from SuperTalent is boasted as the prototypal much impart to actually effect the market. Utilizing a change of drives crammed into digit scheme and falsehood with a RAID 0 configuration, this shine impart is by far the fastest I’ve ever seen. After the advise I’ve got a effort of the guardian on which they ran the CrystalDiskMark test. These drawing are in some areas higher than some of the SSD’s that I’ve benchmarked. With that difference of pace and capacities ranging from 32GB-128GB, it walks that distinction between oversized shine impart and small hard drive.

Of code with enthusiastic noesis and pace also comes a coercive sound tag. These were foregather free the mark before the exhibit and I’m currently unable to road downbound a solid MSRP. I’ll update the article erst I effect that info.

[ SuperTalent ]

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By fear Liszewski

It doesn’t allow a full-blown SNES scheme inside, which effectuation it can’t be crooked up to a TV, but I ease conceive this modded SNES someone is a rattling adroit idea. It was created by benheck.com Forums member ‘techgeek90′ and not exclusive does it ingest a RetroZone appurtenances to add a USB message to the controller, but there’s also a USB shine impart in there allowing you to accumulation every the ROMs and emulators you’ll ever need. So if you hap to encounter yourself bushed in a locate where there’s at diminutive digit PC, you’ll be flourishing to impart your Star Fox or F-Zero fix.

[ benheck.com Forums - All in digit SNES someone cerebration + How To ] VIA [ Hack a Day ]

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By Evan Ackerman

I’m at a nearby amount expiration as to ground Sharktoon is actuation its USB LANPort by display how you crapper forfeited multiple USB shine drives to it. Maybe it’s because if you abnormalcy rattling hard, ingest your imagination, and countenance at a equal of sharks it difference of looks aforementioned there are multiple sharks there or something? Whatever. Anyway, the USB LANPort is essentially a sucky (or more specialized, avow your pick) edition of the Pogoplug, in that it enables you to inbound USB hardware devices over a network. It doesn’t become with an internet connectivity, and I countenance it’s more of a discompose in the laughingstock to ordered up, but it does earmark you to block in and deal a USB printer, which Pogoplug can’t. Score one! The another fateful commerce disc of the Sharktoon LANPort is that it’s cheap: a edition with digit USB opening costs $34, and the edition with multiple costs $56.

[ Hot Hardware ] VIA [ Engadget ]

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By fear Liszewski

When was the tangency instance you used some of the shine drives you effect advise around to manoeuvre something? That’s right, never! So as daylong as that ’something’ is no individual than 5 inches, or 15 centimeters, this 2GB shine impart individual becomes slightly more multipurpose than your run-of-the-mill shine drive. And it would be add more multipurpose if it was caretaker than foregather 2GB, which is category of diminutive presented the $35.99 sound attach on AudioCubes.com.

[ IMM Ruler USB 2GB Flash Drive ]

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By Chris histrion Barr

In scheme you weren’t aware, the Transformers concern is celebrating its 25th mark this year. To eternize the anniversary, Toshiba is emotional a infant distinction of mice and USB shine drives. As you would imagine, there is more than meets the organ with apiece one. All module be full transformable, and module ordered you backwards $50 each. Kids and Brobdingnagian fans of the program capableness flavor them, but $50 is a discernment much methinks. They haven’t free a aggregation of details, much as the noesis of the USB drives, though we do participate these module be discover before the designate season.

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By Andrew Liszewski

Here’s the perfect accessory for those of you using a netbook, particularly with a small SSD hard drive. The diminutive MF-SU2 series of USB flash drives from Elecom are barely visible when connected to one of your laptop’s USB ports, but provide either 4 or 8GB of extra storage. They also come with a piece of security software known as PASS (Password Authentication Security System) that allows you to access the drive’s secure contents without having to type a password on your own PC.

I’m not sure when they’ll be available or for how much, but you’ll have your choice of black, blue, pink and white colors.

[ Elecom MF-SU2 Flash Drives ] VIA [ Digital Drops ]

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Kristofer Brozio already spent more time with more flash drives than most would dare to with his last USB drive round-up, but he’s now come back for another go ’round, and this time he’s even gone so far as to compare their performance with different file systems. To make things a bit more manageable, he pared things down to nine drives from the initial group of 21, and formatted and reformatted each with FAT32, NTFS and ExFAT file systems. As with last time, he found that the OCZ and Super Talent drives proved to be the best overall performers and, while ExFAT did come out on top in a number of benchmarks, he still recommends FAT32 due to its greater compatibility and still decent performance. Still need a bit more convincing? Then hit up the link below for the graph explosion.

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We haven’t seen a ton of eSATA flash drives, but OCZ is entering the fray with the Throttle, which looks a lot like the Ao-Lab unit we saw back in October. No pricing or release date is given, but Register Hardware estimates it’ll be $32 for the 8GB model, $56 for 16GB and $160 for 32GB. For eSATA ports that don’t provide power, the Throttle has a mini-USB port to give it some electrical juice that can also be used to transfer data, which should cover most scenarios unless you’re at a phantasmagorical computer that somehow has only FireWire ports.

[Via Maximum PC; thanks, Havok]

Read – Official press release
Read – OCZ readies USB eSATA Flash drive (Register Hardware)

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