Philips Debuts USB 3.0 External SSDs
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Philip's Portable Solid State Drives feature USB 3.0 ports and a slim form factor.
Philips has announced three new external SSDs that feature USB 3.0 ports and have a thickness of just 0.8 cm. The drives will be available in capacities of 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB. The company states that all three versions will be able to achieve read / write speeds of 240 MB/s and 140 MB/s, respectively.
The 128 GB variant of Philip's Portable SSD will arrive with a price of €129 ($166). We are still waiting for information on the pricing and availability of the 256 GB and 512 GB variants.
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While USB 3.0 flashdrives are cheaper, SSD's still maintain almost double the speeds of even the fastest usb 3.0.
There are much cheaper USB 3.0 SSDs with far greater performance than these.
That's pretty slow.. 25MB/sec write and 22.5MB/sec read? my compact flash cards read /write faster than that.
I haven't looked into it too much but I think a lot of USB 3 sticks aren't nearly as fast as an SSD, although their names mean the same thing. You have to do research to find the good ones. USB3 SSDs are fast USB3 sticks that have multi-channel controllers