This USB 3.0 Hard Drive World's First!

Freecom, one of the companies engaged in the external and portable hard drive storage, recently announced Hard Drive 3.0 XS. Different from the hard drive that already exists in the market so far, has brought 3.0 XS USB 3.0 technology! With the launch of XS 3.0, Freecom has become the first company to release a portable hard drive that uses USB 3.0 technology.

Freecom, through its official release, also states that the hard drive of their output has a capacity USB 2.0 backward compatibility. This means making the device capable of working on any computer that uses USB 2.0 technology. Of course the data transfer speed, if you use the hard drive on USB 2.0 is not going as fast as when using USB 3.0.

XS 3.0 Hard Drive is a 3.5-inch hard drive portable. XS 3.0 offers transfer rate is quite high, which is 130MB per second. Size XS 3.0 was not too large, even dare to claim that the Freecom hard drive of their output is the smallest among all 3.5-inch hard drive available. The weight of this tool was only 1.9 pounds or 1 kg.

Hard drives will be available in three capacities, namely 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB. Dibanderol price was quite cheap, which is starting from 119 euros (or about USD175). This tool will be available in Europe in mid-November tomorrow. What about Asia? Let's just wait.

Until now, still a little device that apply USB 3.0. Consumer goods is expected to immediately apply the USB 3.0 in 2010. The first motherboards that have been using USB 3.0 is the Asus P6X58, but unfortunately, this motherboard is canceled before it could be produced. While the first Operating System was mengsupport USB 3.0 is Linux version 2.6.31.

Source: Freecom and Chip indonesia