USB 3.0 Hard Disk Drives For Mac


Future-Proof Your Next Backup Drive Purchase

Considering a hard drive purchase? Apple may be dragging it's heels, but the transition to USB 3.0 is inevitable. Whether via a USB3 ThunderBolt adapter for recent MacBooks or on future computers from Apple. Meanwhile, the USB3 computer peripheral market is exploding with SuperSpeed add-on cards, backup drives, hubs and computer accessories. Many PC users - and a few Macintosh Pro and MacBook Pro owners are enjoying the benefits of SuperSpeed hard drives with supported PCI-e and Expresscard USB3 cards and select CalDigit or LaCie USB3 Accessories for Mac OSX Leopard.

USB3 SuperSpeed Hard Drives

The potential 10x performance benefits of Super-Speed USB 3.0 are clear: Backward compatibility with USB 2.0 makes a USB3 back-up drive a smart forward-thinking purchase. The promise of OSX disk cloning, file copying and OSX TimeMachine backups in a FRACTION of the time it used to take is compelling. USB3 ports are shipping in several manufacturers PC computer logic boards and peripherals: HP, ASUS, MSI and others are shipping motherboards with USB 3.0 ports onboard.

The push by these pioneerss has resulted in an increasing number of shipping USB 3.0 drives from Seagate, Iomega, Western Digital and others. 2011 will finally bring widespread adoption of SuperSpeed to the massess - both from Intel and Apple early in the new year.

External USB 3.0 Mac Hard Drive Backup Solutions

All these drives come formatted for Windows. Simply use Apple's Disk Utility to REFORMAT with a GUID Partition Table for Intel Based Macs - and you're good to go! Backup at normal 2.0 speeds to meet your needs today - and enjoy the benefits on your next Mac later down the road.

           
1TB SuperSpeed DriveUSB3 Card-Cable-Drive Combo2.5" Portable 3.0 Interface Drive
Verbatim SuperSpeed Drive

3.5" 1 Terabyte Disk 		WD USB 3 1TB Hard Drive

With USB 3.0 PCI-e Card 		Iomega eGo SuperSpeed

Portable Laptop Drive


Mac USB 3.0 Backup Drives?


While many Windows 7 users can enjoy SuperSpeed benefits - Apple Macintosh users are still left waiting for USB 3.0 driver support in Mac OS X Snow Leopard and matching ports to appear Apple logic boards. Given the clear trend towards SuperSpeed - it's wise for Macintosh users to start buying USB 3.0 backup drives, partitioning and reformatting the drive for Mac OS X, and enjoying the backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 until Intel and Apple get thier SuperSpeed enabled computers on the market.

DIY Mac Backup Drives : USB 3.0 Enclosures


Armed with the favorite 2.5" or 3.5" bare SATA II or III hard drive mechanism of your choice - pair it with any number of SuperSpeed hard disk enclosures and you can cobble together your own USB 3.0 backup drive for Mac that will work NOW with your existing iMac, MacBook, Macintosh Pro or Mac mini at USB 2.0 speeds - and be ready for USB 3 down the road.

External USB 3.0 Mac Hard Drive Cases and Enclosures

           
3.5" SuperSpeed EnclosureFull Size USB3 Dive Case2.5" Portable 3.0 Enclosure


USB 3.0 For Apple Mac - An Inevitability

Was it premature or forward thinking? When www.mac-usb3.com originally went live, it seemed the trajectory for this next generation of USB 3.0 peripherals was going to happen alot sooner than it has. But we're at the tipping point - where Apple simply CANNOT afford to drag thier heels on including USB3 ports on their Mac computers much longer - simply for competitive reasons. The benefits, time-savings and productivity efficiency of USB3 Super-Speed is so compelling, it's a no brainer at this point: The handwriting's on the wall - and you'll read all about it after MacWorld Expo 2011...