PQI Takes USB 3.0 And Stuffs It Into A Tiny Flash Drive

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Monday, May 9th, 2011


Need a tiny USB 3.0 flash drive? Who doesn’t, right? Well PQI’s latest is the smallest USB 3.0 yet. The Traveling Disk intelligent Drive U819V –lovely name — is fully backwards compatible with USB 2.0, but when plugged into a lovely blue USB 3.0 slot can transfer data at 5Gbps. Pricing wasn’t announced, but it will likely only cost slightly more than its lazy USB 2.0 counterparts. [PQI via SlashGear]