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OCZ Throttle dual eSATA / USB thumb drive supports high-speed transfers

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Computing | by Stephen Schenck | Fri Dec 5, 2008 2:06PM | 0 comments

OCZ has come out with its Throttle, a high-speed flash thumb drive that supports eSATA connections in addition to standard USB. eSATA is a connector type for the high-bandwidth SATA data protocol, which you might find as a port on a late-model laptop. Even high-speed USB 2.0 devices have a maximum speed of only 60 megabytes per second. SATA can function as high as 300MB/s with hardware fast enough to keep up with it. The OCZ flash drives, available in sizes ranging from 8GB to 32GB, don't reach anywhere near that speed, but surpass USB limitations with their 90MB/s read times. As per the nature of flash devices, write times are slower than reads, but still an impressive 30MB/s. If your computer has an eSATA port, this definitely looks like a product you should check out; flash thumb drives are all about convenience, and faster access to your files when on-the-go is nothing but convenient.

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