Buffalo Announces a Trio of External SSDs

Cristian_25H · Apr 11, 2012

Buffalo Inc. has today unveiled the SSD-PEU3 family of external solid state drives. Coming in two color versions - red and black, these SSDs measure 98 x 57 x 13 mm, they weight 70 grams, and feature a glossy finish, and a USB 3.0 interface enabling transfer speed of up to 266.7 MB/s.

The SSD-PEU3 drives are backed by a one-year warranty and are set to become available at the end of this month priced at $105 (64 GB model), $168 (128 GB) and $392 (256 GB).

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jsfitz54 · Apr 12, 2012

Why is the speed so slow?

vanyots · Apr 12, 2012

jsfitz54 said:
Why is the speed so slow?

Probably the internal drive is SATA2. :ohwell:

Frick · Apr 12, 2012

I still think it's a decent deal for an external drive with those speeds. 260MB/s isn't exactly slow.

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Buffalo Announces a Trio of External SSDs

Cristian_25H

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Frick

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