Patriot Memory launches Supersonic USB 3.0 drive

Patriot Memory has announced the launch of a new USB 3.0 drive that is crazy fast and uses a single chip inside. The new flash drive is called the Supersonic and works with the USB 3.0 interface on computers today. The flash drive has a quad channel architecture and is very small and light.

The flash drive has an aluminum housing that makes the storage device robust. Patriot claims that the thing can resist shock up to 15G to protect your data. It is offered in 32GB and 64GB capacities. The drive will ship in Q1 2011.

The quad channel tech in the flash drive allows the device to operate faster. Sequential write speed is promised to be 70MB/s and sequential read is 100MB/s. Pricing of the new flash drive is unannounced.