The first USB 3.0 product certified
NEC’s USB 3.0 host controller chip has been certified by the USB-IF
NEC’s USB 3.0 host controller chip has been certified by the USB-IF
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First USB 3.0 product certified
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dj_jyno
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It sure is for the 3 people who actually have it.
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Can't wait 
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Fudzy
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And it's news like this that makes me hold off on buying a new PC any time soon.
I say get your PC now unless you intend to change every peripheral over to a USB3 one.
If all you have connected is your USB keyboard then, seriously, slow down if you're maxing out the USB2 speed.
5Gbit/s is something like 640MBytes/s. What current home machine has that bandwidth requirement?
It also brings up the question as to why we are not networking via USB yet.
I think the funniest device that will show up with USB3 is any printer. All that speed getting the file to the printer, only to wait a minute for the thing to print the page.
I'm being sour.. I have USB2.
I say get your PC now unless you intend to change every peripheral over to a USB3 one.
If all you have connected is your USB keyboard then, seriously, slow down if you're maxing out the USB2 speed.
5Gbit/s is something like 640MBytes/s. What current home machine has that bandwidth requirement?
It also brings up the question as to why we are not networking via USB yet.
I think the funniest device that will show up with USB3 is any printer. All that speed getting the file to the printer, only to wait a minute for the thing to print the page.
I'm being sour.. I have USB2.
+1. It would be stupid to wait for USB3.:erm:
RPG_Fan
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I wonder what the power requirements are for USB 3.0? Also USB 3.0 will benefit from external HDD & writers. But a good point mentioned why they don't use it for ethernet connections.
InTheCube
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I'm venturing a guess here - I am 90% certain that there are limits to the length of USB cable one can use, and pretty certain that for USB 3.0 the maximum length is a lot shorter than USB 2.0. The longer the cable, the more the attenuation and interference, making the connection less reliable.
It would benefit external HDD if those HDD were SSD. Current internal HDD do about 100MB/sec or so on a good day. USB2 480Mbit/sec is roughly 60MByte/sec which is quite good. 100MByte/sec x 8 = 800Mbit/sec as a rough guide (overheads of signalling excluded), so here firewire 800 could do it (almost). USB3 at 5Gbit will allow you to have loads more drives going at the same time, but I think it might have been cheaper to buy the internal drives.
Sorry, I might sound negative, but I'm just looking at it with a big "why?". Would be nice to see what new devices will have it.
I suppose the argument is for a common interface. Not everything has firewire or eSATA, but you just about guaranteed to find a machine with USB on it. Will a USB3 device work on a USB 1 or 2 port?
Sorry, I might sound negative, but I'm just looking at it with a big "why?". Would be nice to see what new devices will have it.
I suppose the argument is for a common interface. Not everything has firewire or eSATA, but you just about guaranteed to find a machine with USB on it. Will a USB3 device work on a USB 1 or 2 port?
Yip, that's correct. Offices get horribly crowded when we're all 5m away from the network switch.
Well, I hope that one good thing that really comes out of USB3 is that they include the cable with the printer. This gets me every time... I buy a printer, then have to drive back to buy the cable. They need to put this into the USB3 spec for supporting device accreditation: Cable to be included.
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Fudzy
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I say get your PC now unless you intend to change every peripheral over to a USB3 one.
If all you have connected is your USB keyboard then, seriously, slow down if you're maxing out the USB2 speed.
5Gbit/s is something like 640MBytes/s. What current home machine has that bandwidth requirement?
It also brings up the question as to why we are not networking via USB yet.
I think the funniest device that will show up with USB3 is any printer. All that speed getting the file to the printer, only to wait a minute for the thing to print the page.
I'm being sour.. I have USB2.
How long do you think it will be till this technology is mainstream? USB1 to USB2 happened very quickly IIRC
It's looking good for next Thursday.
Not sure. Probably quicker these days than a few years back. Looks like there are alot more upgrades these days (or is that warranty returns?) so if every manufacturer jumps onto the USB3 thing next year then it'll probably be quicker than the previous versions.
Not sure. Probably quicker these days than a few years back. Looks like there are alot more upgrades these days (or is that warranty returns?) so if every manufacturer jumps onto the USB3 thing next year then it'll probably be quicker than the previous versions.
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Fudzy
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It's looking good for next Thursday.
Well that's the thing, I'm just throwing this out there but looking at the speeds you could comfortably host applications/games even operating systems on memory sticks that could have much better copy protection than anything out there currently.