Freecom has announced its new "Hard Drive XS 3.0", he first external hard drive in the world to offer "SuperSpeed USB" technology - or not in marketing lingo, USB 3.0. The driver offers speeds around 130MB/s via USB 3.0, enabling the transfer of very large files in significantly less time than external hard drives available on the market at the moment.
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So are all of the features of USB 3.0 functional through USB 2.0 jacks or will you need a new PMCIA, mini-PMCIA or slot card card to take advantage of it's full functionality?
Originally posted by mikecUSA: So are all of the features of USB 3.0 functional through USB 2.0 jacks or will you need a new PMCIA, mini-PMCIA or slot card card to take advantage of it's full functionality?
Good point are the current mobo's goning to support this with a driver update or does it need new hardware to run?
Edit: I new I should have googles for the answer before commenting. Heres what I found
USB 3.0 achieves those speeds with a new plug and cable format, but it's all backward-compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. Plug in your old device, and it will still work (at the older speed). Plug a USB 3.0 device into a USB 2.0 port, and it will run at the slower speed.
USB 3.0 achieves those speeds with a new plug and cable format, but it's all backward-compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. Plug in your old device, and it will still work (at the older speed). Plug a USB 3.0 device into a USB 2.0 port, and it will run at the slower speed.
From what I have read on Wikipedia, that is not ENTIRELY true. USB is a vastly different standard from USB2.0, nothing like the switch from 1-2. Mainly because they are doubling the number of wires in the cable and adding more complex signal duplexing. Check it out.
That's probably why the article title doesn't read "Western Digital offers USB 3.0 external HDD."
I'm in need of a new PC and storage device. While there are no new PC's out yet with USB 3.0, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get this instead of 2.0, if one was planning on upgrading.
