Storage products for the USB 2.0 interface are everywhere you look now and has been the definitive format in portable storage for some time now. SuperSpeed USB 3.0 is slowly making its way into the mainstream market and as users replace their aging motherboards, many are adopting boards that natively support USB 3.0 or are adding expansion cards. Since USB 2.0 is relatively slow, large capacity external drives are painful to use if you are transferring large amounts of data., perhaps for backups. With over 10x the bandwidth of USB 2.0, the difference in speed is acutely obvious in use and Kingston aims to make good use of that difference with their new HyperX MAX 3.0 external SSD drive (Press Release). In fact, remember the stories your parents would tell you about having to walk to school in waist deep snow, uphill both ways, while kids nowadays get to ride the warm and speedy bus? Think of the Kingston HyperX MAX 3.0 drive as the bus and USB 2.0 drives as the poor sap trudging in the snow.