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"It's fine to announce USB 3.0 gear, but it's another thing entirely to actually put it up for retail. Buffalo's making the boast today that its HD-HU3 series of USB 3.0 hard disks will be the \"world's first!!\" to ship. Since a USB 3.0 device is pointless without a controller to support it, Buffalo will also make NEC's &amp;yen;5,300 (about $60) IFC-PCIE2U3 2-port PCI Expressx1 host controller available with its hard drives when they ship late October in Japan, almost a month before Freecom's disks hit the market. The 1TB and 1.5TB drives will cost &amp;yen;20,000 (about $225) and &amp;yen;25,300 (about $284), respectively, with a &amp;yen;46,600 (about $523) 2TB disk coming sometime later. Imagine it, soon you'll be able to take advantage of those USB 3.0 cables you bought back in April. Controller after the break.[Via Engadget Japanese]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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