Freecom, a Mitsubishi Kagaku Media company announced the hard drive called Hard Drive XS 3.0 – the first external hard drive in the world to offer ‘SuperSpeed USB’ technology. Using USB 3.0, the Hard Drive XS3.0′s transfer speeds can reach up to approximately 130 MB/s; this is significantly faster than existing 2.0 USB drives. The Hard Drive XS3.0 allows users to back up and upload information in a matter of seconds. This is ideally for both home and industrial usages. People with the need for speed can transfer large files quickly and have their data on-the-go. In addition, the Hard Drive XS 3.0 is also the smallest 3.5” desktop hard drive available, in a sense, it is slimmer than conventional hard drives.
The Freecom Hard Drive XS 3.0 is also backwards compatible with all USB 2.0. As of right now, USB 3.0 is not readily, abundantly available to the public. Most of the computers today are currently operating under USB 2.0, and you will need a USB 3.0 controller to take advantage of the USB 3.0 transfer speed. For comparison, the USB 3.0 theoretical transfer speed is about 5 Gbps and the USB 2.0 interface is 480 Mbps. But as we all know, theoretical transfer speed is different from the real world speed. As you can see that the USB 3.0 highest transfer speed for the Hard Drive XS3.0 is about 130MB/s, and the transfer speed for USB 2.0 is about 40-50 MB/s in real world applications.
The price of the 1TB Hard Drive XS 3.0 is about $190.
