14 DAY TRIAL // Knowing that higher prices are usually the bane of devices based on new technologies, Super Talent figured it would play on this aspect and significantly boost the appeal of one of its newer products by making it more affordable than one would expect.
What the company prepared is a series of USB flash drives, known as the USB 3.0 Express Duo, that will supposedly remove all reason to buy USB 2.0 drives.
These newcomers do not excel in terms of physical endurance, nor do they have any advantages over other USB 3.0 drives in terms of storage space and transfer rates.
What they can, on the other hand, brag about, is having achieved the feat of going beneath the $15 price threshold.
To be more specific, there are, at this time, two such drives, one with a capacity of 8 GB and one with 16 GB of internal storage.
The more capacious model sells for as little as $29, whereas the 8 GB one actually goes for only $14, basically making them almost as cheap as USB 2.0 drives of identical storage space.
It should be mentioned that the USB 3.0 Express Duo still take advantage of the SuperSpeed standard.
They can work at over 67 MB/s, a rate which, while not as high as that of higher-end drives, still exceeds the maximum read speed of USB 2.0 units, which is 32 MB/s, by a significant margin.
"The USB 3.0 Express Duo is perhaps our most exciting USB 3.0 flash drive to date. We were first to break the 300 MB/s barrier with our USB 3.0 RAIDDrive and now we're breaking the $15 price barrier,”said CH Lee COO of SuperTalent.
“There's simply really no reason to buy a USB 2.0 flash drive anymore," he added.
Actual shipments of these two devices should commence sometime during the ongoing month.