Super Speed USB 3.0 External Portable Hard Drive from Seagate

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20 January 2010 @ 05:05 am AEST

This USB 3.0 toolkit packages includes 500GB 7200RPM 2.5-inch portable hard drive, power cable and PC express card. Compared to real-world performance, USB 3.0 proven speeds up to three times faster than its USB 2.0 predecessor, making it one of the fastest portable hard drives available.

In theory, USB 3.0 speed has been specified at 4.8 Gbs per second or a ten times improvement over USB 2.0. However in real world testing, new Seagate BlackArmor USB 3.0 portable drive achieves 3X performance over USB 2.0 similar specification.

With the BlackArmor PS 110 USB 3.0 drive, a 25GB HD movie can be transferred in just four minutes versus the 14 minutes it would take using a traditional USB 2.0 drive. Simply plug the PC Adapter card into a notebook, connect one end of the included adapter cord to the PC card, the other end to the BlackArmor PS110 drive and it is connected.

The BlackArmor PS110 USB 3.0 performance kit contains everything you need to upgrade USB 2.0 to take advantage of USB 3.0 speeds. The new BlackArmor PS 110 USB 3.0 Performance kit is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and can be purchased immediately from Seagate.com.

The recommended retail price is US $179.99.

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