The USB Implementers Forum said that 50 products have passed the Superspeed USB compliance test.
Products include notebooks, storage controllers, motherboards, PCI Express and Expresscard add-in cards and hard disk drives.
USB 3.0, or SuperSpeed as the marketeers like to call it, gives data transfer rates 10 times faster than USB 2.0, or Hi-Speed USB as the marketeers like to call it.
Jeff Ravencraft, chairman of the not-for-profit USB IF said that now Superspeed USB is a viable product, testing and certification for products are increasing.
The standard was developed by HP, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments.
There's a complete list of products that support USB 3.0, here.
Walton Chaintech have released the Apogee-branded Astro Drive A101, which is the smallest USB 3.0 mass storage device in the world, as far as we can tell.
In real world testing the diminutive drives, which are available in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities, managed to read at 186 megabytes read second and write at 130, at least six times faster than the USB 2.0 standard's top speed.
We have no idea how much these will set you back once it reaches our shores, but we have a feeling it ain't gonna be cheap.
A pocket drive for deep pockets, indeed.
Ahso, list above seems to lead to very old equipment, like Me & windows '98.
Just Savior: 6 times Faster. then take latest SSD @ ~350Mb/s = Wowie, Impossible2.1 Gb/s. if usb could only handle such power, so full 600Mb/s or ?More, be childs fantasy orplay to get to. f a s t e r.