Super Talent Touts 370MB/s on USB 3.0 RAIDDrive

Launched last fall, the USB 3.0 standard has proven to be a godsend for those who use external storage devices on a regular basis, as compared to 2.0, there’s just no competition. You might be lucky to see 30MB/s speeds with 2.0, for example, while 3.0 blows the doors wide open to deliver speeds of 300MB/s or higher.

According to Super Talent, the next-generation USB 3.0 controllers can deliver even faster performance, and in some cases, such as with the company’s RAIDDrive, these new controllers can even make current products faster.

The RAIDDrive, as the name suggests, bundles NAND flash into RAID 0 mode, and coupled with a USB 3.0 port, read speeds of just over 300MB/s can be achieved. With brand-new controllers, however, such as the Fresco Logic FL-1009B (I never heard of this company either, don’t feel bad), the same exact drive can now post speeds of over 370MB/s.

That’s a massive jump, and the only unfortunate thing is that it might be a while before we see this chipset available on our motherboards, if it will happen at all. Up to this point, NEC has been the brand of choice for USB 3.0 controllers, but with performance like this exhibited by the Frecso Logic chipset, we might just see some board vendors consider it.

When we introduced the USB 3.0 RAIDDrive, we knew that we had reached the limit of the USB 3.0 host controllers currently available. Now that 2nd generation USB 3.0 host controllers are beginning to emerge, this drive is able to show its true performance. Completely unchanged since its debut in January 2010, this drive now posts scores over 370MB/s; a full 55MB/s faster.