Don't worry about it for the Mac. Apple won't be including USB 3.0 anytime soon. And even if you got it with the included card, it's probably a standard PCI card, and we know Apple decided several years ago that PCI was dead and no longer needed for Mac Pros. And even if it did fit in your Mac, there's probably no Mac drivers.

Stay away from plastic-cased drives.

1. heat dissipation is generally a problem.
2. often difficult to open; who wants to send a drive out for 'repair' only to get back a brick in exchange (and on top of that, lose all the data just because a controller board is dead).

They put a 15K rpm drive in an external case? If not, there's no way they are going to sustain 125MB/s. If they did, as @Paul Huang said, this will be a heat problem.

Either way, something is wrong with the description of this product. Maybe when they say 'attain' they mean peak? If so, there's nothing special, as that's only xfer to/from cache - as on any drive - and doesn't need or take advantage of USB 3.0 speeds.

Cache peak maybe, but not drive peak.

Just because my Yugo says 185MPH on the speedometer, it doesn't mean it can approach even 90MPH.

So, is USB3 going to be as inefficient and CPU hogging as USB2 for data transfers? And slow down to USB1.1 speeds when you plug a mouse or keyboard into the same bus? I bet.

What's up with FireWire 3200? The spec has been complete for some time now.

I'd like to see some head-to-head comparisons: FireWire vs. USB3.

Since Apple uses Intel chipsets, USB 3 support will come as soon as Intel implements it and these chipsets end up in Macs. I'm just happy I have a MacPro so I can simply get a PCI Express card to implement it down the road if I deem it necessary.

Apple uses Intel chipsets, but they're designed for Apple, so what goes on there is what Apple wants on there.

And just because the chips are there doesn't mean the support will be there. They still have to get the drivers written for them to work. h***, I've got USB 2.0 on my PowerMac, but the actual throughput sucks on those machines, compared to, say, my MBP.

Stay away from plastic-cased drives.

So I guess everyone should stay away from Apple's Time Capsule too, right?

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