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Their pricing scheme baffles me.]]>Aug 8th 2007 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/08/buffalo-adds-turbo-usb-to-ministation-drivestation-external-hd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/08/buffalo-adds-turbo-usb-to-ministation-drivestation-external-hd/Aug 8th 2007 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/08/buffalo-adds-turbo-usb-to-ministation-drivestation-external-hd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/08/buffalo-adds-turbo-usb-to-ministation-drivestation-external-hd/Aug 8th 2007 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/08/buffalo-adds-turbo-usb-to-ministation-drivestation-external-hd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/08/buffalo-adds-turbo-usb-to-ministation-drivestation-external-hd/
Perhaps this device's chipset is optimized to synchronize the cluster read/writes off the HDD with the data block transmission through USB. Perhaps they've found a way to optimize overhead data and processing. Who knows...

A problem, however, that may exist is data corruption stemming from the additional optimization to boost speed. Hopefully this unit has top-notch error correction algorithms!]]>Aug 8th 2007 2:45PM