USB 3.0 - Unbelievably Fast.

[Thanatos]

http://thefutureofthings.com/news/57...h-usb-3-0.html

Wow.... just.... just wow.

[Qymaen Jai Sheelal]

Wow sounds great!

Not sure why I need it but I do.

[Roman Clone]

I'm plugging my keyboard into that, once you can start buying it...

[Wheelchair]

... o.O And their backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and 1.1!

:O

[The Doge of Venice]

haha you could almost put a videocard on that theoretically, it seems to be about 600 MB per second bandwidth (unless my math at 8:20 am is totally off which i wouldn't be surprised) which is faster the PCIe 2x

[Freddie]

I'll believe it when I see it. The USB council has promised so much in the past a lot of which has been misleading and simply untrue.

If it is true you will only see these numbers when transferring from one USB3 device to another USB 3 device, moving data from a conventional hard drive is limited to the interface which is currently 300mb's.

[Proximus]

Meh that's the theoretical bandwidth divide it by ten to get the real world bandwidth......

[Freddie]

Meh that's the theoretical bandwidth divide it by ten to get the real world bandwidth......

Well a quick look at maths revels that the actual bandwidth and transfer rate is around 357mb's per second, which is believable considering the massive gains achieved by SSD hard disks this year. The theoretical bandwidth stated in the article is 5Gb's per second.

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Edit: maths based on 25gb file (see article) @ 70 seconds.

1000 megabytes s per Gigabyte

25x1000 = 25,000/70 = 357mb's a second

or

25x1024 = 25600/70 = 366mb's

[The Doge of Venice]

yes hard drive read and write speeds are a pretty huge issue, i see it as better for peripheral devices that require high bandwidth.

[TemplarLord]

Sorry for my bad English, but "backwards compatible" means that I will be able to plug a USB 3.0 device into a USB 2.0 motherboard? Even if this is true, I guess the transfer speed would suffer a bit, right?

[Roman Clone]

Sorry for my bad English, but "backwards compatible" means that I will be able to plug a USB 3.0 device into a USB 2.0 motherboard? Even if this is true, I guess the transfer speed would suffer a bit, right?

Yes, and from what I gather, it depends on what is receiving the information. If a friend throws 2 things, and you can only catch 1, that is how it is going to work.

[Qymaen Jai Sheelal]

pft boring I don't want it anymore.

[Medicus]

Jesus. Who actually needs to transfer that much data?

[Freddie]

Jesus. Who actually needs to transfer that much data?

Me. I have a 500gb external hard drive loaded with XVIDS (DVD rips then coverted) and DVD images of Deep Space Nine season 3 to 7. Transferring all that data over USB 2 would take.............................. forever.

[The Doge of Venice]

Me. I have a 500gb external hard drive loaded with XVIDS (DVD rips then coverted) and DVD images of Deep Space Nine season 3 to 7. Transferring all that data over USB 2 would take.............................. forever.

FIREWIRE!!! or e-sata

[Freddie]

FIREWIRE!!! or e-sata

I have Esata but to get the best speeds you need a good control card and they cost £30/£40 a throw cheap ones on ebay just don't cut it. I currently get around 80mb's write and 90mb's read.

Firewire 400 isn't much faster then USB 2, Firewire 800 is about as fast as esata but a firewire 800 control card costs a bomb and are quite hard to find. USB 3 could be anwser we people like myself have been waiting for.

[GrnEyedDvl]

Jesus. Who actually needs to transfer that much data?

Anyone in the business world?

[The Doge of Venice]

yes still 90mbs per second is still quite adequate, like go do soemthing else for 5 minutes on transfer unless your breaking in and robbing a company of secret data a few minutes less on enormous transfers rarely made shouldn't be a huge deal worth big money to fix.

[Hunter Makoy]

yeah i thought FireWire was gonna start being the future since it could connect directly between two devices and didn't require a host. (of course USB 3.0 might not either)

btw congrats GED on ur new award!

[GrnEyedDvl]

I got an award??