The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has announced that the first USB 3.0 products are now ready to roll. But do we really need another wired USB standard? Quite frankly, yes. And here’s why…
(Below is an excerpt from an article that looks at what USB 3.0 has to offer the consumer and why we’ll all be using it come 20130).
Just how fast is USB 3.0?
The new USB specification is rated 10 times faster than USB 2.0, which has a maximum transfer speed of 480Mbps.
In comparison, USB 3.0 has a theoretical peak throughput of 5Gbps. This means that USB 3.0 is capable of transferring a 25GB file in approximately 70 seconds.
If that doesn’t warrant a shout of “whoosh!” then what does? In contrast, USB 2.0 would take around 14 minutes to perform the same task. And you’d be twiddling your thumbs for around 9 hours if you used USB 1.1.
This speed boost makes USB 3.0 ideal for the sort of large-scale file shunting we all do today, such as copying large images, MPEG-4 video clips, or making data backups to portable hard drives.
You can read the full article on TechRadar.
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