OneAndOneIs2

Fri, Sep 21, 2007

Yawn

Apparently, USB version 3 will be out next year. It'll be much faster, apparently.

All well and good, but the biggest bottleneck I have when using USB drives isn't the USB part, it's the write times. Can't say I'll be rushing to buy something that can transfer data quicker

I suppose, on the other hand, tho, that it'll make USB 2 flash drives even cheaper. So I guess there IS something to look forward to..

3 comments • Categories: Omni, In The News, Technology

Comments:

Comment from: sokuban [Member]

Great, does this mean that my old computers will become incompatible with more of the world's portable devices?

Permalink 22/09/07 @ 23:32

Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/

Yep, very likely!

Permalink 23/09/07 @ 15:16

Comment from: Devin [Visitor]

· http://devhen.wordpress.com

Lets not be silly. I'm sure it will be backwards compatible with USB 2.0 as well as 1.0 and 1.1.

I disagree with Dominic here. I am definately looking forward to USB 3 because the sad speed of USB2 external hard drives has always driven me crazy. Sure, your thumb drives aren't going to perform any better but you'll actually be able to get the full potential speed out of that old ATA hard drive you've got in your external enclosure. Much better than USB2's real-world speeds of 20MB/sec.

I'm looking forward to the day that adding an external hard drive to your system doesn't mean slow backups of your *real* internal drives but rather an actual extension of your storage space where you can run an OS off of an external hard drive at the same speeds as you would with the drive mounted internally.

Seeing as USB 3 will be 10 times as fast as USB 2 we should see real-world speeds of around 200MB/sec. This should make full-speed external hard drives a possibility, even with faster SATA or SCSI drives.

Permalink 02/11/07 @ 00:50