Friday, November 20th 2009
OCZ Preparing USB 3.0 External SSD
OCZ Technology has perhaps the most diverse solid-state drive portfolio, which includes 1.8" and 2.5" internal SATA 3 Gb/s SSDs - with SLC, and MLC NAND flash technologies; 3.5" SSDs, bootable PCI-Express SSDs, and even eSATA based ones. While SSDs utilizing SATA 6 Gb/s are very predictable in the near future, the company already has plans to unveil an external, portable SSD that utilizes the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface, at the upcoming CES 2010 event. With over 4 Gb/s of interface bandwidth at its disposal, it can also be expected of the drive to be powered entirely by the USB port. A concept design is already in place.
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PC Perspective
10 Comments on OCZ Preparing USB 3.0 External SSD
Indeed, all the players and the industry had plans for quite some time now, once USB3 was finalized the controller chip people started to work on controllers with USB3 support, they have powerpoint presentations on the subject galore, so yes they all have plans, the only question is: does intel has plans for an USB3 SSD? Since they are stalling adding USB3 to their chipsets you wonder if they also will actively avoid it in that segment.
Well hopefully they will have what I want in 2 years.
256GB SLC, with 5 year warranty, sata spec 3.0, for $500 or less
I wonder if latency will be affected
so if you look at USB 3.0 in the same light, it goes from 600MB/s to 300MB/s - matching SATA-II (and thus E-sata)
The main advantage to this is that you can get uber speed on machines with USB 3.0, but its gunna work on older machines too.
Not that USB3 will be the standard interface for fixed SSD of course :) and there's the promise of lightpeak, but I expect 2011 for that too, but there I base myself on a pessimistic outlook on such developments because it always seems slow, not on real info.