Which USB 3.0 Hard Drive is Fastest?
Jun 10, 2010 06:05 PM EDT by 
USB 3.0 promises twice the speed of the current USB 2.0 standard. And now that these new ports are starting to show up on notebooks, storage makers have begun producing external drives that take advantage of these blazing transfer rates. But before shelling out any money to upgrade your storage solution, we’ve put four of the newest models through the wringer to find out which one offers the fastest speeds, best utilities, and stylish looks. In order to measure their performance, we connected each drive to a Lenovo W710 workstation, then ran read and write speed tests with a 4.97GB folder of multimedia and a 1.66GB MPEG-4 file. Check our slideshow to find out which one is speediest.
Buffalo MiniStation Cobalt USB 3.0
Buffalo’s latest portable drive is small and light, but it’s not as fast as the competition.
Pros Sleek and stylish design |
Cons Not the fastest drive |
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