Seagate Unveils USB 3.0 Laptop HDD Upgrade Kit

[Marcus Yam]

Get your laptop up to SuperSpeed.

Seagate Unveils USB 3.0 Laptop HDD Upgrade Kit : Read more

 

[krotkdm]

How can you call this an 'upgrade kit' when nothing is being upgraded?
It's an external hard drive!

What is the PC adapter card being plugged into? Obviously not the USB 2.0 port.

 

[neodude007]

I think its pretty ovi they are talking about an express card or something for the laptop... it uses a really fast bus and turns the port in to USB 3.0 basically... just like a PCIe card works in a desktop. DUH they dont plug it in USB 2.0

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

My laptop's got eSATA. I'm done...

 

[ca87]

Don't be deceived! you will need a USB 3.0 compatible PC to work with it.
USB 3.0 => USB 2.0 = null.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

DAMN. that thing is beautiful! =)

 

[HansVonOhain]

Who is a retard that downrates all responses?

Sounds very promising for an external harddrive.

 

[jn77]

so, this drive is $79 more than the 5400rpm 500gb usb 2.0 drive....

snap!... next

 

[anamaniac]

For external usage, I'll stick to using flash drives, thank you.

$180 for a 500GB external? No way in hell.

 

[twisted politiks]

whats the point of usb 3.0 when the hdd read and write speeds dont even max out usb 2.0?

 

[lasaldude]

[citation][nom]twisted politiks[/nom]whats the point of usb 3.0 when the hdd read and write speeds dont even max out usb 2.0?[/citation]


Wait! Hard Drives Definitely Keep Up With USB 2. I Think You're Confused With SATA 2

 

[lasaldude]

[citation][nom]lasaldude[/nom]Wait! Hard Drives Definitely Keep Up With USB 2. I Think You're Confused With SATA 2[/citation]


Hate Not Having An Edit Button? The maximum data rate in USB 2.0 is 480 Mbit/s (60 MB/s) per controller. Laptop Drives at 5400 RPM's Probably Fill That But Now You Can Expect 70 - 120 MBps For 3.5" Drives. I Still Have A Hard Time Believing We Have Dealt With This Slow Shit For 10 years now this april.

 

[s540201]

Spotted this interesting USB 3.0 introduction http://www.3vdist.com/en/newsflash/usb-30-is-coming.

Looks like it will help laptop makers to launch lighter and better quality notebooks with USB 3.0 ports. Since the external HDD is performing as good as internal HDD!!