USB 3.0 ten times faster; first gear due next year (1 Viewer)

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USB 3.0 connectors adopt a similar shape to their 1.0 and 2.0 predecessors for backward compatibility, but with a second set of connectors for the Superspeed pipeline

http://apcmag.com/usb_30_tops_300mbs_first_gear_due_next_year.htm

The current draft spec is expected to be signed off by the end of this year, and within 12 months we’re likely to see the first Superspeed USB kit his the shelves.

Superspeed USB promises to do it ten times better, says Ravencraft, delivering at least 300MB/s compared to the 30MB/s of USB 2.0. In a demo conducted for APC on the industry’s first Superspeed USB host controller a 6GB video file hit a sustained transfer rate of 320MB/s. The gains are less noticeable with a folder chock-full of assorted smaller files, however, as the smaller data packets contain a higher proportion of overhead, dropping the speed back to around 50MB/s.

 

[darkwolfzx]

apparently you can transfer a typical HD movie in 70 seconds at that speed, but some hard drives are not capable of feeding information that quickly into the cables, plus theres always ridiculous overhead when copying information to and from thumb drives

Still if this technology matures in a year, then we're gonna have a golden age of data transfer

 

[Riet]

apparently you can transfer a typical HD movie in 70 seconds at that speed, but some hard drives are not capable of feeding information that quickly into the cables, plus theres always ridiculous overhead when copying information to and from thumb drives

Still if this technology matures in a year, then we're gonna have a golden age of data transfer

Most people's hard drives are still 150 mb/s sata

 

[wrxsti]

about time, takes me 10mins to copy 2 movies

 

[annabackwards]

I can't wait until this becomes the norm. No more waiting for 20mins to grab movies ^^

 

[F2001]

Most people's hard drives are still 150 mb/s sata

burst/max theoritical.

Most typical HDs are around 60-70mb/s avg speed.