Looks like Seagate is the first to show USB 3.0 products
Seagate has announced that it will showing off "the world's first consumer product application of USB 3.0" at this year's CES. The USB 3.0 demo itself will feature a Seagate FreeAgent external HDD kitted out with a Symwave -built USB 3.0 storage controller. "Symwave is honoured to be working with Seagate in this show of the first USB 3.0 solution in a real world application of data backup, storage and media streaming," said Yossi Cohen, president and CEO of Symwave. 10 times faster than USB 2.0 It's a big leap forward for USB 3.0, which was only rubber-stamped last November at the SuperSpeed USB Developer's Conference.The new specification promises to be 10 times faster than the current USB 2.0 standard, which has a maximum transfer speed of 480 Mbits/sec. In comparison, USB 3.0 can reach the dizzy heights of 5 Gbit/sec, making it ideal for large file transfers. Symwave also suggests that USB 3.0 will use less power than its forebear and will rema...