We have mentioned about USB 3.0 Specification earlier but so far yet to see an actual platform until the recent great news from Asus. Just recently, Asus has planned to release its premium motherboard for high end enthusiasts. The next generation platform, named as P6X58 will be designed with two USB 3.0 host ports for high bandwidth data transfer on top of other impressive feature sets suitable for various market segments.

The platform is designed with extreme high performance requirements in mind. Besides featuring with USB 3.0 ports that can achieve 4.8Gbps thanks to NEC uPD720200 USB 3.0 certified chipset, it also enhanced with SATA 3.0 interface with 6Gps transfer speed for storage drive. In order to handle such high bandwidth data transmission, the platform is powered by famous Intel Core i7 processor, with six DDR3 memory slots for easy system upgrade targeted for mainstream applications. Other interfaces include three PCI Express 2.0 slots, USB 2.0 host port and many more.

Regardless of so much great features embedded into the system, there is no actual benchmarking performance data available from developer yet and it is a bit hard to estimate its actual performance. However, don’t expect it to be cheap and it could be too early to be able to find any suitable peripherals that can fully utilize such a high data transmission speed in consumer world.

The famous thumb drive maker, Kingston Technology, has just created another new buzz in the industry by unveiling its new Data Traveler 300 which offers the world’s largest memory data storage capacity. The new Kingston Data Traveler 300 is able to deliver 256GB memory storage for high-end users who need huge mobile storage facility for particular reasons.

Measuring 70.68 x 22.37 x 16.45 mm in dimension, the typical Kingston Traveler design thumb drive features the same USB 2.0 interface that is used in most USB flash drives and computer devices. Data Traveler 300 is able to achieve transfer rates of up 20 MB/sec for reading and 10 MB/sec for writing. Besides facilitating users to carry massive data around, Kingston also includes a password traveler security software in the package. According to Kingston, up to 90% of the drive’s content can be password protected and conveniently accessed via the new Password Traveler software.

The tiny Kingston Data Traveler 300 costs around £565.67or $924 with a five year warranty from Kingston.

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