FirmTek has shipped its bus-powered miniSwap/U3 with performance up to 440MB/second for new computers with USB 3.0 and legacy computers with USB 2.0 ports.

Designed for 2.5-inch solid state (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD), the enclosure provides trayless, hot-swap, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external enclosure support for Mac and PC computers. Multiple miniSwap/U3 enclosures can be connected to provide advanced RAID performance, expanded capacity, and simple or complex storage configurations.

The miniSwap/U3 trayless design supports standard 2.5-inch Serial ATA SSD or HDD 9.5mm height devices along with 7mm, 12.5mm and even larger disks up to 14.9mm. It’s now available from FirmTek authorized resellers. Specially priced build-to-order miniSwap/U3 bundles with custom pre-installed SATA hard disks or SSD configurations are also available. For more information go to www.firmtek.com/seritek/miniswap-u3/ .