The full dimensions of the device are 8.8mm thick, 11.5cm long and 7.9cm wide and it weighs 140g. It’s compatible with the new Microsoft operating system Windows 8, as well as Windows 7, Vista and XP, and Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
The DriveStation DDR utilizes Buffalo’s MegaCache Accelerator, a 1 GB DDR3 RAM cache system, to greatly accelerate file transfer rates thus outperforming other USB 3.0 hard drives. Compared to a standard USB 3.0 hard drive, the 1 GB DRAM cache of the MegaCache system efficiently caches data as it’s transferred to automatically boost performance for transfer speeds up to 408 MB/s which is even faster than Thunderbolt storage. It’s 2.3x faster than USB 3.0 hard drives and more than 10x faster than USB 2.0.
