I’ve been working on USB since the beginning in 1995, starting with the world’s first BIOS that supported USB Keyboards and Mice while at Award Software. After a departure into embedded systems software for real-time operating systems, I returned to USB IP cores and software at inSilicon, one of the leading suppliers of USB IP. In 2002, inSilicon was acquired by Synopsys and I’ve been here since. I also served as Chairman of the USB On-The-Go Working Group for the USB Implementers Forum from 2004-2006. USB 3.0 Products Shipping & the Co-Creator of USB
Posted by Eric Huang on November 19th, 2009
Cyberpower announced that USB 3.0 will be an option on all their Gamer Xtreme PCs. This (to my knowledge) is the first PC company to announce support for USB 3.0. I checked out the CyberPower website, and I found 13 models that let me pick USB 3.0 as a feature. You can see the cheapest PC option here: CyberPower PC with USB 3.0 option.
The most useful product I would like to buy is the Sharkoon SATA dock. The will accept standard SATA drives and has a connector for a USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 cable. You can see the blue USB 3.0 receptacle in their marketing doc here: Sharkoon SATA QuickDock with USB 3.0, The dock will retail for around $75.
GeekWarning: This saves us geeks money by allowing us to buy the cheapest, barebone, unpackaged SATA hard drives, and just plug it into the dock for when we need to do a back up. We don’t need to speed the extra bucks for the fancy, ruggedized hard drives. The geeks know what I’m talking about.
Otherwise, you can buy one of the other USB 3.0 storage devices listed below for yourself, your family, your friends…
Sharkoon sells a matching USB 3.0 Host Card. Of course, if you bought the CyberPower GamerXtreme and the QuickDock then you’d be all set for USB 3.0.
USB Co-Creator
Also, Conan O’Brian interviewed the Co-Creator of USB, Ajay Bhatt. You saw an actor in original USB commercial. You can see both the Interview and the Commercial and Engadget here:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/conan-obrien-talks-to-the-co-creator-of-usb-on-the-tonight-show/
Running list of USB 3.0 Products (with Links)
•PCs
–CyberPower Gamer Xtreme
•Motherboards
–ASUSP7P55D-E Premium,P6X58D Premium, P7H57D-V EVO
–Gigabyte – 7 models – GA-P55A-UD6, UD5, UD4P, UD3P, UD3R, UD3
•NEC Host in Add-In Cards/ExpressCards
–ASUS U3S6
–ECS
–Sharkoon
•Drives
–Buffalo HDD
–Dane-Elec HDD/SDD
–Active Media Aviator 312
–Freecom HDD
–SuperTalent Flash Drive
–Sharkoon SATA Dock
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