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USB 3.0 is coming here and Brando has the goods. Starting with the perennial favourite, the SATA hard drive dock. This USB 3.0 SATA HDD Docking Station lets you hot-swap between multiple drives easily, and allows you transfer data at 5, 3 or 1.5 Gbs as well as the old USB 2.0/1.1 way. It can mount either 3.5″ or 2.5″ hard drives and supports drives up to 2TB in size. Only Windows XP/Vista/7 compatible and needs AC. US$58 from Brando.
The USB 3.0 SATA HDD Docking Station (Y-1071) allows you to plug any 2.5″ or 3.5″ SATA Harddisk and *3.5″ IDE Harddisk to your computer via USB port, a powerful tool for data transfer, backup and cloning. With the Superspeed USB 3.0 mode, it offers a theoretical data transfer speed of 5.0GBit/s. That’s ten times faster than the USB 2.0 speed of 480 MBit/s. It is a perfect HDD dock for everyone.
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Dan Ferris is the Red Ferret’s Oceanic correspondent and Associate Editor based in Sydney, Australia. Despite not knowing Russell Crowe or Nicole Kidman, Dan has risen above adversity and now scours the world for interesting tidbits to write about. He spends far too much time photographing stuff and tinkering with computers.
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