Thursday, December 31, 2009

New USB 3.0 flash drives from PQI



USB 3.0 is slowly becoming mainstream in the gadget world. But we haven’t yet seen a 3.0 flash drive until now. Power Quotient International Co., Ltd (PQI) is making three versions of its U366 flash drive, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. It comes in an aluminum casing with a plastic cover and will ship in either blue or grey colors. Dimensions are 87mm x 22mm x 12mm. Big news is that it will be USB 3.0.

USB 3.0 means that these flash drives could possibly be capable of bandwidth up to 5GB/s while retaining backwards compatibility with older standards. PQI also states that the U366 will have transfer speeds of up to 97MB/s