The EX100U model of the American company will be able to reach transfer speeds of up to 1,600MBps – if connected to a suitable interface
USB drives have become a fad and are gradually being replaced by miniaturized portable SSD drives that, while they won’t give the feeling as if your computer case has suddenly grown a small horn, will provide larger volumes and impressive speeds – and thus we see manufacturers that previously tried their luck in the portable storage market making a comeback to the center of things in the era the new of the field. The American Corsair volunteers to demonstrate, with the fresh EX100U drive.
The peripheral company that previously made the unusually hard cylindrical Survivor drive (and several other models under the Voyager and Voyager GTX brands) now introduces a flat rectangular drive in silver and black, complete with a built-in loop to help anchor it to your key chain (after all, It weighs only 22 grams and has an area smaller than that of a credit card), a USB Type-C connector of course – and support for the USB 3.2 Gen standard. 2×2 to receive continuous transfer speeds of up to 1,600 MBps in reading and up to 1,500 MBps in writing, apparently alongside random performance that will also leave only dust to all the USB drives that the company launched in the past.
When working with systems where USB 3.2 Gen. 2 only, it is reasonable to estimate that we will see performance that is about half of the maximum declared for USB 3.2 Gen 2×2, in accordance with the theoretical bandwidth that shrinks in half – and accordingly the performance under USB 3.2 Gen connections. 1 (previously known to us simply as USB 3.0, with a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 5Gbps) will be another halving, to the level of 400MBps to 500MBps or so, which are the upper limit for all external storage drives in this technology.
The EX100U will be available in volumes between 1TB and 4TB, in a standard that is adapted to both Windows computers, MacOS computers and Sony and Microsoft consoles, with a warranty for a period of three years and with a pair of cables with a USB Type-C interface and a USB Type-A interface that are included in a case We were unable to find details about the official recommended prices of the models according to company representatives, but the versions with a volume between 1TB and 4TB can already be found in the online store of Amazon United States with prices between $108 and $485, before tax, respectively.
There are several cheaper portable SSD drives on the market, but considering the nice performance potential, this is not a bad starting point – and if we see a further drop in the coming months, the EX100U could become one of the worthwhile models in the category among the major international brands.
Corsair EX100U 1TB model – final price NIS 485
Corsair EX100U 2TB model – final price NIS 830 – the most affordable
Corsair EX100U 4TB model – final price NIS 2,070