Buffalo HD-PGD500U3-EU Product Data Sheet

MiniStation

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Portable DDR

Buffalo DDR3 Technology: Portable Hard Drive with Ultra-Fast Speed

With Buffalo’s Dynamic Random-Access Memory portable hard drive users no longer have to choose between speed and capacity; the HD-PGDU3 series offers both! Buffalo’s DDR3 hard drives combine the best of solid state drives – fast speed – with the best of standard hard drives – affordable large capacities.

The HD-PGDU3 is equipped with Buffalo’s DDR3 Technology and has an extra-large 1GB cache capable of extremely fast data transfer speeds. The cache works as a buffer during read and write operations allowing the MiniStation speed and up to 300 MB/s read speed. Ready to copy 1,000 photos? You’ll be done in about 3.5 seconds – about 2.3 times faster than a standard USB 3.0 hard drive!

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to optimise its speed and offer up to 400MB/s write

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Buffalo’s portable DDR is sleek and high-design minded, including subtle LEDs which indicate the drive’s cache use and power status.

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Buffalo’s DDR3 MiniStation and reliably and is an excellent choice for video, audio, and graphics professionals, business users, or anyone on-the-go. The HD-PGDU3 series is available in 500GB or 1TB capacities.

transfers larger amounts of data fast

Features and Beneﬁts

• Buffalo’s MiniStation™ DDR3 is an easy to use, high performance USB 3.0 portable hard drive

• Buffalo’s DRAM cache technology – DDR3 plus 1GB cache – delivers write speeds of up to 400 MBs

- 1,000 photos with a total of 800 MB write in approximately 3.5 seconds

- 3,000 photos with a total of 800 MB write in approximately 13.1 seconds

• DDR3 also delivers impressive read speed

- 1,000 – 800 MB – photos read in approximately 6.2 seconds

• Including Buffalo Tools

- Backup Utility

- RAMDISK Utility

- TurboPC EX

• Available in 500GB or 1TB capacities

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File size and connection type dependent: writing many small ﬁles will take longer than copying a few large ones.

MiniStation

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Portable DDR

Speciﬁcations

Internal Hard Drives

HDD interface SATA

Capacities 500GB, 1TB

Number of Drives 1

Interface(s)

Standard Compliance USB 3.0

Connector Type USB 3.0 micro B

Number of Ports 1

Data Transfer Rate 5Gb/s

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Other

Additional Cache 1GB DDR3 RAM

Supported OS

Windows 8/8.1 (32/64 bit), Windows Windows

XP (32 bit), Mac® OS X 10.7 -10.9

7 (32/64 bit), Windows® Vista™ (32/64 bit),

Dimensions (W x D x H) 81 x 133 x 18mm

Weight 220g

Operating Environment 0-40°C, humidity 10-85% (non-condensing)

Power Consumption 5.75W while accessing via USB3.0

Power Supply USB bus powered

Product codes

HD-PGD500U3-EU HD-PGD1.0U3-EU

About Buffalo

Buffalo Technology is a leading global provider of award-winning storage, network ing and multimedia solutions for the home and small business environments as well as for system builders and integrators. With more than three decades of network ing and computer peripheral experience, Buffalo has proven its commitment to delivering innovative solutions that have put the company at the forefront of infrastr ucture technology.

© Buffalo Inc. 2014. BU FFALO logo, AirStation, Nﬁniti, AOS S, TeraStation, Link Station, DriveStation and MiniS tation are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Melco Holdings Inc. or Buffalo Inc. Microsof t Windows and Microsoft logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in United States and/or other countries. The names and logos of other companies mentioned herein belong to their respective owners. The information within this datasheet is subject to change without notice. All rights reserved. E & OE.

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140172, 05/2014