Super Talent USB 3.0 Thumbdrive - All Hail The New Speed Champ

Your wait for a uber-fast USB 3.0 flash drive is over. Super Talent RAIDDrive will be the first thumbdrive to use USB 3.0 specs; under SuperSpeed USB mode, it will deliver an impressive 200MB/s with regular legacy BOT driver and reach a jaw-dropping speed of 320MB/s when paired with a UASP driver. UASP stands for USB Attached SCSI, created to leverage transfer rate of the new interface. Oddly, UASP driver isn't included. We will have to find out why.

The company claims the RAIDDrive employes patented "multiple pairs of differential serial data lines technology" for optimal NAND performance. In comparison, the RAIDDrive is five to eight times faster than the top-of-the-line Corsair Flash Voyager GT and Pretec i-Disk Tango, both of which hover at around 35 to 40MB/s. At top speed, filling up a Super Talent's 64GB USB 3.0 flash drive would take a little over 3 minutes. The same task would take 26 minutes over a USB 2.0 port. There's no word on pricing, but expect retail availability of all three models (32GB, 64GB & 128GB) in December, the same month Asus, Gigabyte and Dane-elec will be shipping their USB 3.0 gear.

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