New Super Talent Flash Drives Use 32 MB Cache
Super Talent release four new USB 3.0 flash drives, two of which utilizes a 32 MB cache buffer for a nice speed boost.
Tuesday Super Talent said that it began shipments of its new USB 3.0-based Express RAM Cache drives. According to the company, the new line comes packed with a DRAM caching system that will boost small block random performance by up to 300-percent.
Arriving in 32 GB and 64 GB capacities, the two drives measure 87.5 x 25 x 8-mm, uses the obvious SuperSpeed USB interface, and sports a brushed aluminum enclosure. It also claims to offer 10 years of data retention, 32 MB of DRAM cache, and comes with a Turbo Driver that's compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7 (both 32 and 64-bit).
"No longer are we talking about a 10x performance increase over USB 2, now we are talking about a real world experience that is up to 110x what our customers have experienced before," said Super Talent COO, C.H. Lee. "Adding RAM Cache to our USB 3.0 Express Drive line-up raises the bar we have establish with our first three USB 3.0 products and reiterates our commitment and leadership in the USB 3.0 space."
The 32 GB model will cost $129, whereas the 64 GB version will cost a meatier $209. Super Talent also released two additional drives--the 16 GB USB 3.0 Express Drive for $59, and the 32 GB USB 3.0 Express Drive for $99. All four drives can be purchased online here.
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If the speed is there i might grab myself one
I think not a big improvement for real use. Benchmark plz.
I could try to get one of those now and be ahead of technology, though I wonder, How many Colleges/universities, non-computer savvy friends, etc. have already a laptop / desktop with USB 3.0. And I rather see benchmarks first that prove the boost of USB 2.0 before spending >129 dollars on an USB...Still capacity is pretty impresive.
Interesting...I'd love to see this tested with Readyboost, seems to be a perfect match for it.
too bad windoze wont boot off(install to) a usb drive? or did they fix that?
Yeah, for that price, benchmarks please.
Good advance in technology. I'll wait until it filters down though.
Nice one.
I'd love to see this tested with Readyboost, seems to be a perfect match for it.
Interesting...I'd love to see this tested with Readyboost, seems to be a perfect match for it.
If you're going to shell out $100 for a USB flash drive for READY BOOST, you might as well spend that money and pop in some RAM instead.
Not much cheaper than a decent SSD (heck, you might even be able to find a SSD cheaper than the 64GB version)... Yeah, they're thumb drives and portable, but I'd rather upgrade my system's "speed" with a SSD, rather than a thumb drive using ready boost.
If you're going to shell out $100 for a USB flash drive for READY BOOST, you might as well spend that money and pop in some RAM instead.
EXACTLY! 4 gigs of DDR3 memory is going for $100 on Newegg. Besides, do you need anymore than 4-6 gigs of memory at this point?
Looks pretty classy. My only reservation is the fact that 2 out of the 3 supertalent products I have owned failed rather quickly... They don't get my vote for reliability/quality
Please test this, along with others like it (i.e. A-DATA AN005-16G-CGY). I'm about to build a killer machine with two SSDs in RAID 0 and this would seem to be ideal for a ReadyBoost drive.
Good for hosting an OS on?
Good for hosting an OS on?
cant use a usb drive for ready boost if you are using ssd's
Please test this, along with others like it (i.e. A-DATA AN005-16G-CGY). I'm about to build a killer machine with two SSDs in RAID 0 and this would seem to be ideal for a ReadyBoost drive.
cant use a usb drive for ready boost if you are using ssd's
cant you edit posts? quoted the wrong person...
Why all USB stick do not have write protection switch ?