USB3 hard-drives
July 28th, 2009
The USB 3.0 is finalized, with a huge bandwidth of 500 MB/s (better than SATA 3Gb!), and it’s really interesting if you own a Mac that is expandable!
Anyway, only the MacPro and old MacBook Pro may be able to support USB 3.0, where probably any existing PC may be extended to support it (PCCard, ExpressCard, PCI, PCI-Express…).
The bad move from Apple is the replacement of an ExpressCard/34 port (that support PCIe x1 + USB 2) by a simple SDHC reader, that wont support SDXC (due this fall) USB 3.0 (same timeline), FireWire 3200, eSATA ….
Investing in a PC is investing on an upgradeable hardware platform, and this is typically what Macs are not, except the overpriced MacPro!
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