Mushkin announced the next entry to the Ventura Ultra series at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.l In continuation of the current line of 60GB, 120GB, and 240GB models, the company unveiled the Ventura Ultra 480GB USB 3.0 SSD .

The latest Ventura Ultra offering retains the ultra-high performance of the lower capacity models while now offering 480GB of storage, according to Brian Flood, director of Product Development at Mushkin. The LSI SandForce SF-2281 powered USB SSDs provide best in class throughput of 455MB/s reads and 445MB/s writes while providing up to 39K 4K random IOPS, he adds.

The Ventura Ultra also is capable of operating in UASP mode, which enables SSD performance in the USB flash drive form factor. go to http://poweredbymushkin.com for more info.