All you speed freaks out there look out for USB 3.0 coming soon. Apparently the connector, although looking very different, are back compatible - which is great news. The speeds we are looking at for this bad boy is 4.8 Gbit/s (600MB/s) which will make it the fastest consumer connector (Firewire S800T is a long way off). How does this compare to USB 2.0 that you will no doubt be using now? Well USB 2.0 can manage a rate of just 480 Mbit/s (60MB/s) - that is a 10 fold increase to USB 3.0. This isn’t quite as much as the jump from USB 1.0 to USB 2.0 which took speeds from 1.5 Mbit/s to 480 Mbit/s. Some other benefits to the USB 3.0 update is a much improved and more intelligent powering system. This isn’t likely to be available till the tail end of the year though.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
USB Version "3.0"
All you speed freaks out there look out for USB 3.0 coming soon. Apparently the connector, although looking very different, are back compatible - which is great news. The speeds we are looking at for this bad boy is 4.8 Gbit/s (600MB/s) which will make it the fastest consumer connector (Firewire S800T is a long way off). How does this compare to USB 2.0 that you will no doubt be using now? Well USB 2.0 can manage a rate of just 480 Mbit/s (60MB/s) - that is a 10 fold increase to USB 3.0. This isn’t quite as much as the jump from USB 1.0 to USB 2.0 which took speeds from 1.5 Mbit/s to 480 Mbit/s. Some other benefits to the USB 3.0 update is a much improved and more intelligent powering system. This isn’t likely to be available till the tail end of the year though.
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