14 DAY TRIAL // Coming to contribute to the ever-present flow of high-speed external storage products, Sharkoon figured this was as good a time as any for its latest invention to show its worth.
With the fame that USB 3.0 earned over the past year, it would have been strange if time kept passing without some other device based on it showing up.
For those still unaware, USB 3.0, SuperSpeed as it is otherwise known, is the latest iteration of the Universal Serial Bus standard.
Compared to USB 2.0, it has a maximum theoretical transfer speed about ten times as high (roughly 5 Gbps).
It is this technology that ended up inside the newest flash drive to leave Sharkoon's labs, one whose name is Flexi-Drive Sprint.
Measuring 56 x 19 x 9 mm (L x W x H) and weighing 12 g, it should already be available for order online, with the price of 19.99 Euro or 29.99 Euro.
As one has no doubt guessed, there are, as such, two storage capacity options, though both of them are large.
One of the drives, the cheaper one, offers 16 GB, while the other one's storage space is double that amount.
Of course, the full potential of USB 3.0 is not exactly realized by either drive, but 20 MB of data written per second is still more than decent (and so are 60 GB/s of reading for that matter).
For users interested in some context, the Flexi-Drive line also includes the ultimate, Extreme and Accelerate flash drives.
What the Sprint stands out for, in comparison to those siblings, is the fact that it is more of an economy model, for people who don't want to spend a fortune on a USB stick.
On that note, the fact that the 32 GB model isn't twice as expensive as the 16 GB one more or less enforces this claim on Sharkoon's part.