Freecom Intro The First USB 3.0 Drive

[PeterStoba]

Freecom appear with the first consumer-based device to support the high speed bus.

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[Rastalovich]

Nice to see these things appearing.

Makes u feel gooey that they must know usb3.0 is going to be a normality sooner rather than l8r. (otherwize who's gonna buy it)

USB3.0 is meant to be backwards compatible, so in that sense Mac drivers shouldn't be necessary, since u won't see a Mac with USB3.0 connections for atleast several months, u'd connect it as 2.0.

How does that speed compare to fwire800 ?

 

[PeterStoba]

Firewire 800 is a maximum of 400MB/s, whereas USB 3.0 is 500MB/s, this drive is only 130MB/s though.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Be nice to see if rigs can cope with it tbh. Id like to get one to play with, within my network tbh.

 

[Rastalovich]

Firewire 800 is a maximum of 400MB/s, whereas USB 3.0 is 500MB/s, this drive is only 130MB/s though.

Firewire is generally tcp/ip mind.

I think when testing it against fast ethernet, it made around 20mb versus the fast ethernet's 10mb.

Big shortfall using tcp/ip.