If USB 2.0 is still a big part of your present day, start thinking about the future because USB 3.0 will become universal in a matter of… year or two. In case you don’t know, with USB 3.0 technology in a flash drive the speeds are much faster and you can transfer files up to 200MB per second, or even better if you optimize the system with a special USB Attached SCSI driver.

As you can imagine, all the portable drives can still work in USB 2.0 ports which work at 60MB per second. For now there is no information about the prices of the new Super Talent USB 3.0 flash drives, but the capacities include 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB, with a release date set for December 2009.

Super Talent Technology is a leading manufacturer of Flash storage and DRAM memory modules and it has just announced a new line of UltraDrive solid state drives that are twice as fast as the world’s speediest SATA hard drives.

The LE has been designed exclusively for enterprise servers and data centers where out of the ordinary performances and reliability must be at their utmost superlative. The UltraDrive supports very high speeds and reads/writes at a speed of 230/170 MB per second. You can get it at different capacities: 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB. The ME version which will work with your SATA-II notebooks, has a read/write speed of 200/160MBps and it will be available in sizes ranging from 16GB to 256GB.

Super Talent Chief Operating Officer, Mr. C.H. Lee said:

The UltraDrive LE represents a quantum leap forward in storage performance that is simply staggering. It excels in every metric that’s relevant to data centers: sequential and random read and write speeds, transaction rates and access and seek times. It also has a considerable advantage over 10,000 RPM hard drives in power consumption and MTBF. This product sets a new standard in enterprise storage

In addition to the Master Drive LX presented by Super Talent on October, they’ve added 2 new SSD drives to their catalog. According to SuperTalent, these new drives have the double of the speed when comparing to the fastest SATA drives on the world.

First, we’ve got the UltraDrive LE that is better than the usual 10,000 RPM hard-drives, it can reach reading speeds of 230MBps, while the writing speed is se at 170MBps. This Solid State Drive is available in 3 different capacities: 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB.

Second, there is the UltraDrive ME, which is considered the fastest 2.5-inch storage device for SATA-II notebooks. It has reading/writing speeds of 200/160MBps.

So far there is no information about the price or release date of these fast drives.

Yesterday we mentioned the new Luxio USB Flash Drives presented by Super Talent, and today the news are related to their fresh SATA-II SSD drives, which will become available for purchase later this week at reasonable prices.

The codename of the new SSD Drives is MasterDrive LX, and its capacity can either be 64GB or 128GB. According to Super Talent, the devices are resistant to shock + vibration, and unlike others this unit works in silence. In terms of technical specifications, we have NAND flash, SATA-II 3Gpbs interface, and a great speed of 100MB/sec on reading mode, or 40MB/sec on write mode.

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Super Talent has released a new USB flash drive with high capacity on the storage department, more exactly 64GB. Compare it to the Pico Gold launched in July that only boasts 8GB, and you’ll see how a couple of months makes all the difference in the world of gadgets.

The new flash drive is named Luxio and measures 21 x 76 x 10 mm, it makes use of chrome plated zinc as the material, and includes a leather carrying case.

On security features, the Luxio drive has AES-256 hardware encryption to make all your data secure. The latest Super Talent flash drive is available in 3 colors: black, silver, and wood.

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