USB3 not working on my Retina MBP

Here is the info from another USB3 drive. It also shows only 480MB speed.

OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro USB 3.0:

Capacity: 750.16 GB (750,156,374,016 bytes)

Removable Media: Yes

Detachable Drive: Yes

BSD Name: disk3

Product ID: 0xa0a1

Vendor ID: 0x1e91

Version: 1.00

Serial Number: 12031163271E

Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Other World Computing

Location ID: 0x1d120000 / 7

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 0

Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)

S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported

Volumes:

disk3s1:

Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)

BSD Name: disk3s1

Content: EFI

Aperture Travel Drive 1:

Capacity: 749.81 GB (749,812,400,128 bytes)

Available: 182.74 GB (182,742,257,664 bytes)

Writable: Yes

File System: Journaled HFS+

BSD Name: disk3s2

Mount Point: /Volumes/Aperture Travel Drive 1

Content: Apple_HFS

Hope we start seeing some solutions to this problem becase one factor that help in purchasing this system was the USB 3.

Well now after rebooting the system these USB 3 Drive will not even connect (mount).

There has to be so sort of issue here with the USB 3.

Portable Bus Powered drives.

Sure would like to see a posting from someone using this new MacBook Pro with Retina Display that has USB 3 working at the USB 3 speed.

Here is the info for another USB 3 Drive (LaC

This one alos only shows 480MB.

So three different USB 3 drives and none run in high speed USB 3 mode with this new MacBook Pro.

Rugged USB 3:

Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)

Removable Media: Yes

Detachable Drive: Yes

BSD Name: disk3

Product ID: 0x103e

Vendor ID: 0x059f (LaCie)

Version: 0.02

Serial Number: 670129f85f4c000000

Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: LaCie

Location ID: 0x1d120000 / 8

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 0

Partition Map Type: APM (Apple Partition Map)

S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported

Volumes:

disk3s1:

Capacity: 32 KB (32,256 bytes)

BSD Name: disk3s1

Content: Apple_partition_map

Lightroom Backup 2:

Capacity: 499.97 GB (499,973,603,328 bytes)

Available: 219 GB (219,000,446,976 bytes)

Writable: Yes

File System: Journaled HFS+

BSD Name: disk3s3

Mount Point: /Volumes/Lightroom Backup 2

Content: Apple_HFS

This has been an issue with most of these USB powered drives. The new Mac's just don't put out enough power on the USB ports to power them completely. Even if they show up in Disk Utility or in the System Info they are not getting enough power to work correctly.

You NEED a Y USB cable that can plug into both USB port to supply enough power so they work coeectly.

I have a usb3, desktop external drive (with its own powersupply)...it was only recognized 2 times. I don't know if it was running usb3 or not, but the time machine backup was running pretty fast. Now even when I shutdown/power cycle I can't get the drive to show up. Drive works fine on windows computer.

Is there an Apple store close enough by? or some other outlet? You might try taking it back and tryng your drive on other MBPs to see if it works and if maybe there's a glitch with your port. I wouldn't delay, if it's a design problem then you'll want time to decide if you want to keep it or not. Also while there see if you can try your computer with a different 3.0 drive. Maybe just narrow the problem down to either the drive, the computer or the design.