Green House Announces PicoDrive J3 Line of USB 3.0 Flash Drives

[btarunr]

Japanese peripherals maker Green House rolled out the PicoDrive J3 line of USB 3.0 flash drives. Available in 8 GB (GH-UFD3-8GJ), 16 GB (GH-UFD3-16GJ), 32 GB (GH-UFD3-32GJ), 64 GB (GH-UFD3-64GJ), and 128 GB (GH-UFD3-128GJ) capacities, the drives are built in the slider form-factor, with a retractable USB connector. The drives are said to utilize a dual-channel MLC NAND architecture, which delivers read speeds of up to 150 MB/s, and write speeds of up to 36 MB/s (128 GB and 64 GB), or 22 MB/s (32 GB), or 11 MB/s (8 GB and 16 GB). Measuring 59.5 x 21.6 x 10.0 mm (WxDxH), the drives weigh about 15 g. They will be released to the markets in Q2-2013.



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[D4S4]

damn it would take an hour to fill the 128gb one up

 

[RejZoR]

I've bough a speedy USB 3.0 drive (Sandisk Extreme 32GB) just because i was tired of all the shitty USB 2.0 drives that couldn't even write at 30MB/s. Only one that i have that can do this since day one is Lexar Lightning II 4GB. But it's only 4GB and thats not enough anymore.

There is just not enough devices with USB 3.0 to make a proper use of them but USB 2.0 is EVERYWHERE. So 30-35MB write on a USB 2.0 port is pretty good. At least it doesn't take bloody forever like on crappy cheap USB drives with horrible 4-6MB/s write. Imagine using such low speed for 32GB drive or god forbid a 128GB drive... it would take days to copy something big to it.