ioSafe, a manufacturer producing hard drives for variable use has announced to release an external hard disk drive (HDD) on August 18, 2010. The SoloPRO is an edition from the Solo HDD series from ioSafe. Solo HDD series from ioSafe is especially designed for business use. Formats available from the SoloPRO edition are USB 3.0 and eSATA which is commonly known as USB 2.0. The SoloPRO edition in USB 3.0 format can be received by peripherals using the USB 2.0 format. Those who want to upgrade the USB 2.0 to USB 3.0 can do it by installing the USB 3.0 PCI Express graphic card to their computing system.

With transfer speed above 100 Mb/second, SoloPRO is 3-4 times faster than the usual USB 2.0. The comparison is, data with the capacity of 1 Tb can be transferred to this external HDD within a few hours, meanwhile common USB 2.0 needs more than 10 hour to perform the same task. The available capacities of SoloPRO external HDD are 1 Tb, 1.5 Tb, and 2 Tb.

The SoloPRO external HDD in 1 Tb capacity will be sold $249.99, while for the capacities of 1.5 Tb and 2 Tb will be sold for$319.99 and $419.99 consecutively. The SoloPRO is planned to hit the computer market in September 1, 2010.