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The Astro Drive A101 is here to win hearts and inspire by being the smallest USB 3.0 device. Well, for today that is, currently there are only 50 some-odd USB 3.0 certified devices out there and this may currently hold the title. We’ll likely be announcing its successor in about 2 weeks so try not to have a heart attack. This drive from Walton-Chaintech bears the Apogee name and follows close on the heels of a speedy USB 2.0 drive from the same company. Due to the extravagant and ethereal nature of the press release, we’re forced to assume that this has similar internals. With 180MB/s read speed and 130MB/s write speed, this will be a very worthy flash drive (There’s even a faster, more capable drive, but that’s for geeks born with silver spoon in their mouth.) If they have a flip out connector and keep the price under $300 for the large 128GB variant, we’ll have our pre-order in before the end of the day (32GB and 64GB models are available as well). Unfortunately, the price and where to pre-order are still absent from their site along with most of the other details that would be important to most of the people that this drive would thrill.

The press release is worthy of a read for fun though. It seems that choosing to use 2 colors in the casing turns this into a super-charged lifestyle drive full of vigor and fashion. They really do go on about the colors, both of them, being really important while details about speed, memory type and pretty much anything else are not to be found. From the text we’d expect to see Ashton Kutcher toting one of these but from the picture they’ll be lucky to get an endorsement from Infra-man. Once we have more details, or at least a second detail we promise to get really excited.
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