50 USB 3.0 Products Have Passed Inspection by USB-IF, Many More to Follow

There's a list of 50 products that the governing body around the USB standard has listed as approved by them to carry the USB-IF logo.

This number seems awfully small, especially for those of us still forced to use USB 2.0 to move VMDK's and encrypted DB archives around. Spending hours a week waiting on data to move adds up and costs valuable work dollars. While this doesn't seem like many, the number is growing fast. The other thing to consider is that the silicon is what is getting approved and that it will be re-used and re-sold under many other names. NEC's chipset is now in dozens of the first USB 3.0 upgrade cards and many more core technologies being examined now will be similarly cloned under a single USB-IF product banner.

Unfortunately, there aren't a ton of the MUST HAVE devices on the market yet. Currently, our top pick for most useful device would be the Sharkoon drive station; anyone doing mass amounts of drive cloning and imaging should have one of these already. Once R&D groups have their imagination stimulated we should have a plethora of interesting products in the chute like Tritton's. Here's to 50 more USB 3.0, we're right here behind ya!