It s basically the same micro usb port used on your phone but beefed up with more connectors to hit usb 3 0 speeds.
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Now while there are cheaper drives out there you can get a five pack of some low capacity usb keys for the same price as this one most of those run on usb 2 0 which is almost effectively a.
The patriot supersonic is a usb 3 1 drive compatible with usb 3 0 and 2 0 from one of the most established memory players on the market.
Usb 3 0 micro b port is the most common port on portable backup drives today.
Either way you get a lot of storage space and a two year warranty from a reliable brand.
The hitachi gst deskstar 7k2000 5k3000 and 7k3000 had the lowest annual failure rates from 0 9 to 1 1.
Supporting usb 3 1 for high speed data transfer the mybook duo s case is also user serviceable meaning.
The best usb drives make your most important files easily portable allowing you to move data from one computer to another or to other devices with minimal fuss.
Most such multi bay devices are sold without the actual hard drives included so you can install any drive you want usually 3 5 inch drives but some support laptop style 2 5 inchers.
This usb 3 0 drive has many of the features of a fully fledged nas device including a high price and if you have a router with a usb 3 0 port you could use this as a network attached storage.
The company has also broken it down by drive model on their blog.
First of all it s got a killer read speed with the usb 3 0 connection and comes completely backwards compatible with your 2 0 ports.
You just plug it in and start.