LucidPort ships first USB 3.0 to SATA controller

Posted on Monday, July 27 2009 @ 21:25 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

TC Mag reports LucidPort has released the first USB 3.0 to SATA bridge controller:

The new chip, which is able to link a SATA hard or solid state drive to a USB 1.1/2.0/3.0 host, features SATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ) support, AES 128/256 encryption, and provides transfer speeds of 210 MB/s when using the Windows Mass Storage driver, with even higher speeds being possible with the USB Attached SCSI (UAS) driver.

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