The New USB 3.0 - Incredibly Fast

November 14, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Technology - written by Elliot Gibson

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The new USB 3.0 can boast a huge increase in performance compared to 2.0. Around 10 times the speed capability! This amounts to a whopping 600 MB/s. This is the equivalent to copying an enormous 25 Gigabytes in only seventy seconds. Where USB 2.0 would take fourteen minutes and 1.1 would take nine hours! It will be due for release to consumers in 2009 or 2010 and will be compatible with the old USB 2.0 and 1.1 ports.

As the General manager of the chipset business unit at AMD said “The future of computing and consumer devices is increasingly visual and bandwidth intensive. Lifestyles filled with HD media and digital audio demand quick and universal data transfer. USB 3.0 is an answer to the future bandwidth need of the PC platform.” Formats such as Blu-ray DVD are the next generation in entertainment. Without USB 3.0 there would almost be no point in having such formats without the speed capabilities of USB 3.0. I look foward to using it!