USB 3.0 gets double speed boost

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Does it mean I have to hold out a few more months before I upgrade my machine(s), or will it only get to consumers next year?
 
Um... I am all for advancing! But you can only transfer at 6gigabits a second if you have a motherboard with 6gb SATA ports and a Hard Drive that supports it.... So USB3.0 will be faster than SATA.... Crazy
 
Skerminkel said:
Yum!
Does it mean I have to hold out a few more months before I upgrade my machine(s), or will it only get to consumers next year?
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Hummercellc said:
Um... I am all for advancing! But you can only transfer at 6gigabits a second if you have a motherboard with 6gb SATA ports and a Hard Drive that supports it.... So USB3.0 will be faster than SATA.... Crazy
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I'd say it's pretty safe still to upgrade your machine now :D

In general it is splendid news though since all your USB devices connected to your computer share that 5gbps or soon 10gbps, which means that you can copy to 2 or more external USB drives, for example, at speeds of 150MB/sec +. Basically as fast as your internal and external drives will allow, and with SSD's hitting 1TB and prices coming down, things are developing along pretty nicely.

At 400mbps, USB2 is the bottleneck, now with USB3 10gbps your actual storage devices are the bottlenecks.
 
Ok so now we are going to have two usb 3 types? Is it actually going to be called "Double Speed USB 3.0"? Would have been awesome if we could just download some new driver and voilà.
 
oober said:
Ok so now we are going to have two usb 3 types? Is it actually going to be called "Double Speed USB 3.0"? Would have been awesome if we could just download some new driver and voilà.
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A firmware update to USB3+ would be sweet. I wonder if there'll be a new name for USB3.0 now??
 
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abandonallhope said:
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I'd say it's pretty safe still to upgrade your machine now :D

In general it is splendid news though since all your USB devices connected to your computer share that 5gbps or soon 10gbps, which means that you can copy to 2 or more external USB drives, for example, at speeds of 150MB/sec +. Basically as fast as your internal and external drives will allow, and with SSD's hitting 1TB and prices coming down, things are developing along pretty nicely.

At 400mbps, USB2 is the bottleneck, now with USB3 10gbps your actual storage devices are the bottlenecks.
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I find that the USB bus (bus-bus?) is terribly inefficient at handling multiple transfers to multiple devices, hence the reason I use Teracopy: one file at a time, regardless of source, and it flies. As soon as you start copying to multiple devices, or even multiple separate files to one device, it's a cockup.

Surely that is Windows being inefficient at handling the file transfers?

Having said that, using pure (native) USB 3.0 ports and devices - luverly!!!
 
FlatspinZA said:
I find that the USB bus (bus-bus?) is terribly inefficient at handling multiple transfers to multiple devices, hence the reason I use Teracopy: one file at a time, regardless of source, and it flies. As soon as you start copying to multiple devices, or even multiple separate files to one device, it's a cockup.

Surely that is Windows being inefficient at handling the file transfers?
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Think it's more of a USB design issue, same thing happens in linux. Their claimed transfer rates for starters are rarely seen in reality.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
Way less than USB3, and aside from apple's overpriced stuff which pc's use it?
Apple uses USB3 and so does everyone else.
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True, less than USB3 but it already does 10Gbps, not later in 2013.
I have thunderbolt on a PC
 
JStrike said:
True, less than USB3 but it already does 10Gbps, not later in 2013.
I have thunderbolt on a PC
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Which is unusual to have on a PC. Do you actually have anything connected to it?
I recall firewire being a bunch faster than USB2 and I had it on most of my machines but never had anything to connect to it.
 
Can we please stop talking about thunderbolt ?

This thread is about USB and the bump to 10gbps, nobody is saying there is anything better available or that there ever will be.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
Which is unusual to have on a PC. Do you actually have anything connected to it?
I recall firewire being a bunch faster than USB2 and I had it on most of my machines but never had anything to connect to it.
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I have a Lacie external drive and a display connected via Thunderbolt
 
FlatspinZA said:
Well, with USB 3.0 getting a boost, I won't be paying for Thunderbolt on any mobo I buy.
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Well, USb 3.0 has the potential to be a replacement for Thunderbolt, in the meantime, more and more motherboards will ship with Thunderbolt
 
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