Meet New High-Speed External Hard Drive Buffalo HD-GDU3

Buffalo Technology, a Japanese manufacturer of all innovatory storage devices and network solutions, showcases a new external hard drive, codenamed HD-GDU3, within the boundaries of DriveStation series. The new drive is housed in a black casing, featuring 45x126x202 mm dimensions. The model is known to have three capacity variations and, correspondingly, three different models: HD-GD1.0U3 (1TB), HD-GD2.0U3 (2TB) and HD-GD3.0U3 (3TB).

These external drives employ 3.5-inch hard drives as the basis and support an advanced high-speed USB 3.0 interface. Their layout involves 1GB of DRAM cache-memory which utilizes a dedicated caching software applet Turbo PC EX2, delivered along with the drives. This applet is called to immensely accelerate the data transfer process. The nominal delivery kit also includes a large software package with encoding and backup programs.

According to Buffalo developers, their HD-GDU3 is the fastest external hard drive ever seen. Thus, the maximal data transfer speed might exceed 408Mb/sec; this is a 2-3 times higher index than recorded with other external drives with USB 3.0 interface for Windows. As a result, the very drive is able to fulfill the copying process (of one thousand photos, for instance) for only 3.5 seconds. This is an unbelievable result ever reported.

Finally, Japanese customers will have a chance to acquire Buffalo HD-GDU3 drive for a price range of $178-$287, depending on the model variation. All three products will become available in the internal market already this month.