Fujitsu Shipping USB 3.0 to SATA Chips

Category: Storage / Hard Drives
Posted: July 28, 2009 05:39AM
Author: JifDaKiwi

Fujitsu has announced that it has started shipping its brand new USB 3.0 to SATA bridge chips, bringing the massive 5GBps bandwidth to the place that you and I will use it most – external storage. This being the next logical step, after ASUS' announcement that it's new, high-end motherboards will be shipping with USB 3.0 ports. "SuperSpeed USB" as it is being called seems as though it is just around the corner, and should be impressive to boot, being reported as able to transfer a two hour high definition video to an external HDD in around 3 to 4 minutes. Even though we will be unlikely to see the maximum 5GBps throughput straight off the bat, anything that leaves USB 2.0's paltry 480MBps behind is a good thing.

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