Monday, September 28th 2009

Buffalo Announces USB 3.0 DriveStation External HDD

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btarunr
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Buffalo Japan is ready with its first external hard drive that uses the new USB 3.0 interface to eliminate the bandwidth bottleneck posed by the older generation of the interface. The Buffalo DriveStation HD-HXU3, with its USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface comes in capacities of 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB. The drive offers transfer rates of around 125 MB/s, on par with drives connected using the eSATA interface. The advantage of this however, is its seamless backwards compatibility with older USB 2.0 generation of the USB interface. The company has also announced the IFC-PCIE2U3 USB 3.0 controller. The two are expected to be available in Q4.
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32 Comments on Buffalo Announces USB 3.0 DriveStation External HDD

#26
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
dir_dIs that 125mb/s both ways or total? If its total thats not better than eSATA.
you cant get mechanical drives that do faster. 'on par with same drive in an e-sata enclosure'
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#27
PP Mguire
Even with my SSD eSATA dosent really go as fast as internal SATA. The controllers suck balls.
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#28
Mussels
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PP MguireEven with my SSD eSATA dosent really go as fast as internal SATA. The controllers suck balls.
both mine do, to reasonable speeds. having short cables seems to be important. (EG, a native e-sata plug will work better than a sata to E-sata, due to the added cable length)
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#29
PP Mguire
Im currently sitting on the onboard eSATA with a WD Black and my avg read/write is 50.
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#30
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
PP MguireIm currently sitting on the onboard eSATA with a WD Black and my avg read/write is 50.
might be the WD's fault.

no offense to the black series, but the greenpowers i had (and sold in a hurry) only did 45MB/s on the latter half of the drive.
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#31
Wile E
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PP MguireYou are absolutely correct. And i hope it takes out the rest of the peripherals because im tired of seeing old Firewire on my mobo and constantly disabling it in the Bios. Im tired of trying to find SATA cables for eSATA ports when i only get a double of USB2.0 speed because the controllers in the external HD enclosures cant handle faster speeds. It means i can get an external NAS type enclosure so i can have all my storage on one bus and not worry about speed problems or finding a ridiculously priced eSATA storage unit.
Not me. I still prefer Firewire to this day. It's faster than 2.0, and better at a ton of things, especially recording equipment and streaming protocols. I hope there they release Firewire 1600, or something along those lines, to compete with this.

And I get full speed from my eSATA, but then again, I don't use an enclosure. Just a SATA to eSATA cable and direct power to the drive.
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#32
Mussels
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Wile ENot me. I still prefer Firewire to this day. It's faster than 2.0, and better at a ton of things, especially recording equipment and streaming protocols. I hope there they release Firewire 1600, or something along those lines, to compete with this.

And I get full speed from my eSATA, but then again, I don't use an enclosure. Just a SATA to eSATA cable and direct power to the drive.
i suppose what people are hoping is that USB 3.0 becomes superior to firewire.

i mean, you dont see firewire mouse or keyboards for PC, so USB is here to stay - we just want it to get better :)
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