Wednesday, September 8th 2010
Super Talent Introduces USB 3.0 Express RAM Cache Drive Series
Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced they are now shipping their new "USB 3.0 Express RAM Cache drive". Available in 32 & 64GB capacities, this new drive implements a DRAM caching system to boost small block random performance by up to 300%. As most manufacturers are announcing their first USB 3.0 flash drive, SuperTalent we is announcing their fourth. SuperTalent is also currently the only USB flash manufacturer offering a caching system on their drives.
"We've made the first, fastest, hardware encrypted, and most affordable USB flash 3.0 flash drives, now with the Express RAM Cache, we are offering affordable cache support on USB 3.0." - SuperTalent COO, CH Lee. Sequential read and write speeds only show how a drive will perform when copying large files. In "real world" applications, we are often reading and writing 100's of smaller files and in some cases even booting to the drive. In these instances traditional flash designs show their weakness and a caching system can dramatically improve performance. For example, say you wanted to copy 40 MP3 files to your flash drive. By adding a caching system, the Express RAM Cache drive can now write these same files 260% faster; instead of taking 13 seconds, this transfer now takes less than 5 seconds. As the file size decreases and the file count increase, this time savings becomes even more apparent.
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"We've made the first, fastest, hardware encrypted, and most affordable USB flash 3.0 flash drives, now with the Express RAM Cache, we are offering affordable cache support on USB 3.0." - SuperTalent COO, CH Lee. Sequential read and write speeds only show how a drive will perform when copying large files. In "real world" applications, we are often reading and writing 100's of smaller files and in some cases even booting to the drive. In these instances traditional flash designs show their weakness and a caching system can dramatically improve performance. For example, say you wanted to copy 40 MP3 files to your flash drive. By adding a caching system, the Express RAM Cache drive can now write these same files 260% faster; instead of taking 13 seconds, this transfer now takes less than 5 seconds. As the file size decreases and the file count increase, this time savings becomes even more apparent.
- ST3U16EDK USB 3.0 Express Drive, 16 GB $59
- ST3U32EDK USB 3.0 Express Drive, 32 GB $99
- ST3U32ERS USB 3.0 Express RAM CACHE Drive, 32 GB $129
- ST3U64ERS USB 3.0 Express RAM CACHE Drive, 64 GB $209
17 Comments on Super Talent Introduces USB 3.0 Express RAM Cache Drive Series
this is just putting a cache on the drive so the drive itself is faster. much like hard drives have 32/64MB of cache.
Wow I was expecting that to be wrong.
If this is as advertised then this is a neat advancement. I might pick one up once I see one in 64gb. I have an aging 16gb that I have never filled, but there is no reason why I shouldn't get a new one right?
40X3MB=120MB
120MB/5=24MB/sec
So the writing speed is somewhere between 20-30MB/sec. I think is not so big deal for that money:wtf:.
They are much faster drives with smaller files, and mine doesn't even have internal RAID or Ram caching.
The one downside, however, is they have a permanent CDFS partition with the Turbo drivers on them. Plays havok with trying to use it as a boot drive sometimes. Wish they would give a patch to eliminate it.
www.supertalent.com/support/download/Express%20Drive%20Firmware%20Upgrade.zip
Besides, I don't know why you are upset, those write speeds are still double of most USB 2.0 flash drives.