14 DAY TRIAL // With all the new storage units coming out, it is not longer any surprise to hear that a flash drive has finally made its way out of its maker's, in this case Super talent, labs.
The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard is definitely assuming its role as new mainstream Universal Serial bus interface.
Of course, given the fame it gained by having a theoretical maximum transfer speed ten times better than that of USB 2.0, this is hardly a surprise.
In fact, even recently were such things as the rugged Clickfree portable rugged hard disk drive and a new batch of Toshiba external HDDs were unveiled.
Now, Super Talent is taking its turn at delivering a new series of storage drives, in this case flash drive units.
The new USB stick bears the name of USB 3.0 Express DUO 2CH and exists in three versions, all of them black and measuring 80.82 x 20.62 x 12.1 mm.
That said, their transfer rates are none too shabby, with reading accomplished at up to 67 MB/s and writing at a maximum of 23 MB/s.
In other words, it will be quick and easy to copy even large, multi-gigabyte files to and from host PCs, provided the latter have USB 3.0 support.
Of course, backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 exists, but data can only work at a maximum of 480 Mbps in that case.
The Super Talent USB 3.0 Express DUO 2CH 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB models have prices of $24.18, $37.87 and $92.43, respectively. All of them utilize MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory chips.
The drives are backed by 5-year warranties and feature a Microsoft Security Essentials Single Storage Partition. They should be able to hold on to data for about 10 year and stay hot plug-and-play ready for at least as long.