Comments on: VisionTek Announces Three New Capacities of USB 3.0 Pocket SSD in Thumb Drive-Sized Form Factor

By: renosablast

renosablast — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 02:55:00 +0000

In reply to Rick Givens.

Thanks for posting, Rick!
Always good to see the manufacturer respond directly.
Scot Strong

By: John Gallie

John Gallie — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 22:06:00 +0000

Sweet!

By: Rick Givens

Rick Givens — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 16:27:00 +0000

In reply to Nuno G..

Hi,
There’s few issues with USB 3.1 versions.

1) They won’t be any faster as right now all the controllers are mostly still SATA
based, so you are limited to 450ish MB/s.

2) Any PCIe based drives will likely require additional power and its very
difficult to bridge a pcie drive to a usb port (lots of power remapping and
controllers required)

3)There still aren’t any IC available for the USB 3.1 to SATA bridges. We hope these become available in early 2016, with 1-2 months of development time required after that.

We are actively looking at the possibility of expanding the Pocket SSD lineup, and as technologies improve, we will add more versions.

By: Nuno G.

Nuno G. — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 14:08:00 +0000

Can’t understand why not release this on USB 3.1… lack of vision…