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USB thumb drives that are bigger than my hard drive circa 2001 are great. Waiting 5, 10, 15 minutes for the files to move to that USB 2.0 drive isn’t so great. Now that USB 3.0 is becoming a common thing in laptops and devices, we can finally get faster flash drives as well.
Enter Sony’s USB 3.0-compatible MicroVault drive. It comes in 8, 16, 32 and 64 gigabyte sizes and transfers 1s and 0s faster than you can blink (which is somewhere around 60 MB/s). Plus it keeps the same retractable form factor that the previous USB 2.0 iterations had. Did you buy an “ultrabook” with one of those blue ports? You might want one of these to go with it. [TechCrunch]
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I Picked up a relatively cheap Patriot USB3 thumb drive (I think it was about £17 delivered for a 16Gb model – just under 2x the cost of a USB2 model). It doesn’t boast the speeds the Sony drive does, but it definitely gets a good 40Mb/s+ and is even pretty nippy in a standard USB2 port.