Super Talent USB 3.0 Thumbdrive - All Hail The New Speed Champ
Your wait for a uber-fast USB 3.0 flash drive is over. Super Talent RAIDDrive will be the first thumbdrive to use USB 3.0 specs; under SuperSpeed USB mode, it will deliver an impressive 200MB/s with regular legacy BOT driver and reach a jaw-dropping speed of 320MB/s when paired with a UASP driver. UASP stands for USB Attached SCSI, created to leverage transfer rate of the new interface. Oddly, UASP driver isn't included. We will have to find out why.
The company claims the RAIDDrive employes patented "multiple pairs of differential serial data lines technology" for optimal NAND performance. In comparison, the RAIDDrive is five to eight times faster than the top-of-the-line Corsair Flash Voyager GT and Pretec i-Disk Tango, both of which hover at around 35 to 40MB/s. At top speed, filling up a Super Talent's 64GB USB 3.0 flash drive would take a little over 3 minutes. The same task would take 26 minutes over a USB 2.0 port. There's no word on pricing, but expect retail availability of all three models (32GB, 64GB & 128GB) in December, the same month Asus, Gigabyte and Dane-elec will be shipping their USB 3.0 gear.
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Viewsonic VMP70, Perfecting USB Media Playback on HDTV
Not everyone wants to deal with the complexity associated with setting up NAS and tweaking network settings just to show high-def movies on his HDTV. The easiest way to playback the media is undoubtedly a player with all the necessary HD format and USB drive support. WD TV HD is insanely popular because it works seamlessly with MKV and H.264. Now, other solutions have emerged to perfect the USB media box. Viewsonic VMP70 is one of them.
The Viewsonic VMP70 can read literally every video codec out there, including DivX/XviD, H.264, VC-1, WMV9 and RMVB. In the audio department, OGG is most welcome among anime fans; built-in DTS decoding is here for those without an amplifier; and FLAC will be appreciated by audiophiles. Unlike the WD TV HD however, the VMP70 doesn't read HFS+ so Mac fanboys can skip this one altogether. Virtually all the buttons are moved to the remote so don't lose it or the VMP70 just becomes a 1 lb. paperweight. As of this writing, Viewsonic is offering a special holiday pricing of $98.99; street price should be pretty much the same even after the promotional period.
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