Buffalo to ship world’s first USB 3.0 HDD
Buffalo is planning to be the first to ship the first USB 3.0 external hard drive and even have available a PCI Express x1 add-in USB 3.0 controller card to be able to use the external HDD. I’m sure many of you have been waiting for USB 3.0 to become available as I know I’m getting tired of those slow and obsolete USB 2.0 transfer speeds! Bummer that this particular product is only scheduled to be released in Japan.
It’s fine to announce USB 3.0 gear, but it’s another thing entirely to actually put it up for retail. Buffalo’s making the boast today that its HD-HU3 series of USB 3.0 hard disks will be the “world’s first!!” to ship. Since a USB 3.0 device is pointless without a controller to support it, Buffalo will also make NEC’s 5,300 (about $60) IFC-PCIE2U3 2-port PCI Expressx1 host controller available with its hard drives when they ship late October in Japan, almost a month before Freecom’s disks hit the market. The 1TB and 1.5TB drives will cost 20,000 (about $225) and 25,300 (about $284), respectively, with a 46,600 (about $523) 2TB disk coming sometime later. Imagine it, soon you’ll be able to take advantage of those USB 3.0 cables you bought back in April.
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