Other hard disk manufacturers have been producing USB 3.0 external drives for quite some time, but Hitachi has only now released its first models which utilize the blazingly-fast bus. Dubbed the Touro Pro, the new line offers 320, 500, and 750GB 2.5-inch models as well as 1, 3, and 3TB 3.5-inch drives with transfer speeds topping out at 5GB per second. Pricing starts at $79.99 for the 320GB model.
Your shiny, new Hitachi hard drive also comes with a little free storage in the company’s cloud vault. How much? Three gigabytes, clearly a nod to the devices’ USB 3.0 support — or maybe I’m just reading into that a little too deeply.
If 3GB isn’t enough to get you excited, Hitachi generously offers an additional 247GB (for a 250GB total) at the bargain price of $49 per year. That’s even cheaper than Google’s pricing, which is already dirt cheap at $50 for 200GB per year. Geek favorite Dropbox costs nearly three times as much for 1/5 of the disk space — though obviously offers added benefits with a bevy of mobile and desktop apps. Hitachi does provide iPad and iPhone apps to access your cloud files, so if that covers your mobile needs you may want to consider the Touro for your next storage upgrade purchase.
Just last month Western Digital acquired Hitachi GST for a cool $4.3 billion dollars, and now Samsung has sold its HDD business to Seagate. The two are now positioned as the last of the big cats in rotating-spindle drive manufacturing as other companies throw their weight behind SSDs.
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