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Buffalo Technology launched the world's first portable Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 dual-interface drive this week at Computex.

Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt/USB Portable Hard Drive

The bus-powered MiniStation Thunderbolt/USB Portable Hard Drive comes in both 500GB and 1TB versions and features the lightening-quick connection ports of both USB 3.0 - said to handle speeds of up to 5Gbps - as well as the 10Gbps-rated Thunderbolt socket.

The Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt/USB Portable Hard Drive, which comes in an aluminium body with a frosted top, will be available in the UK this summer. Prices have yet to be revealed. ®

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Well, Albert, at least it's not

«wedge-shaped». Give that that most incorruptable of authorities, the United States Patent Office, has just granted you-know-whom a so-called «design patent» on «wedge-shaped» notebooks, Buffalo is indeed fortunate that one end of their device is not thicker than the other....

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Is there a bottleneck?

Is there any controller/flash chip that can deliver the sort of speeds that will max out these connections?

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About time! I think other vendors should take this approach rather than just doing TB only. This approach enables you to use the device on far more pcs/macs etc.

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