All this power and speed is packed into a drive the size of a cigarette lighter, a fitting analogy for something that is so smokin’.
Kanguru would like to thank the folks at the GCN Lab for taking the time to evaluate and review the eFlash. We would also like to thank the other publications that reviewed the eFlash this year.
Stay tuned for great new products launching in 2010.
The Tech Report reviews the Kanguru eFlash - eSATA Flash Drive and discusses the state of the industry regarding USB3.0 and eSATA adoption.
So what about external Serial ATA? eSATA ports have slowly become common on even mid-range motherboards, and they’ve even popped up in a few laptops. The interface is plenty quick, too, offering transfer rates up to 300MB/s. But eSATA is just a data pipe, so it can’t provide connected drives with power. That has to come from an external source, which has typically involved bulky power adapters for eSATA enclosures that plug into wall sockets. Auxiliary cables are cumbersome at best, and they’re certainly not appropriate for pocket-sized flash drives.
Fortunately, a better solution exists. A hybrid eSATA/USB connector has been developed that elegantly melds USB and external Serial ATA plugs.
The eFlash once again scored highly on speed benchmarks and the PCI adaptor kit was noted as a “perfect addition” to the package.
The Kanguru e-Flash has just been upgraded to 64GB of memory, making it the largest e-SATA flash drive available in the world. With five times the transfer speed of an ordinary USB flash drive, the Kanguru e-Flash is perfect for large data transfers and backups.
NEC announced the first USB3.0 host controller last week. The new USB3.0 spec has a theoretical throughput of 4.8 Gbps, which is a 10x improvement over USB2.0. The new SuperSpeed USB will also allow external devices to draw more power through the USB interface.
As a pioneer in USB Flash Drive security and the creator of the world’s first Firewire and eSATA Flash Drives, you can be sure that Kanguru will be at the forefront of any new developments in external storage including USB3.0.
PC Magazine has given the Kanguru e-Flash four stars in a recent review.
It excelled even more with eSATA, with a 26.4-MBps write speed—an 86 percent boost in average write speed over USB 2.0. Read speeds jumped 27 percent to 32 MBps over eSATA.
For a round-up of e-Flash reviews, see our previous post. Last year, Kanguru Defender was reviewed with an early version of Kanguru Remote Management Console at Tom’s Hardware.
Kanguru has officially launched a new RAID device called the Kanguru QSX. The QSX is available now at kanguru.com or contact your account rep at any of our partners.
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