Team X092 Flash Drive Features Dual-Ports [New Flash Drive Features USB 2.0 and eSATA connections]

The Team Group is showing off a new flash drive, the X092 that features both eSATA and a USB 2.0 connection, giving you a choice of a conventional USB port or the new, superfast, eSATA port. Yesterday, we covered a similar device from A-DATA. This could be a coming trend of eSATA-USB hybrid drives.

According to the Team release, the X092 flash drive is capable of drawing power from the USB 2.0 port to power the eSATA drive. The X092 uses quadruple channel technology, and actually contains four separate storage devices in the drive case at once. This, Team claims, boosts read/write performance.

Team promises 100Mbps/40Mbps for reading and writing, respectively, when using the eSata point which, SlashGear points out, would let you transfer a 4.5GB movie file in a meager 42 seconds. The drives will be offered in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models, with no pricing or release dates yet declared by the company.