Speed – speed and more speed! The USB 3.0 will be faster than the speed of light! You will be able to upload an entire hard drive in just over a minute (Depending on storage size). You can download more than 100 MP3’s to any player in a matter of seconds, yes I said seconds.
Developers will release the USB 3.0 specifications in the forth quarter of this year. USB (Universal Serial Bus) – also dubbed as SuperSpeed USB is a major revamp from USB 2.0. Last week, Intel released the larger part of the specification for the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) for USB 3.0. That’s 90 percent of what’s needed to build silicon that will work with the USB 3.0 protocol currently being finished by the USB Implementers Forum, a group of technical giants including HP, Intel, Microsoft, and Texas Instruments that have banded together to create the protocols that will enable manufacturers and software companies to produce cameras, smartphones, music players, and other stuff that can talk to computers.
“It’s going to have over ten times the performance,” claims Jeff Ravencraft, president and chair of the USB-IF and a technology strategist at Intel.
USB 3.0 will have dedicated lines going in and out, however, so that communications between host and device can happen at the same time. The other major improvement is in the data-transfer rate, which will be close to 5 gigabits per second (Gbps) in each direction (officially targeting 4.7 Gbps), compared with the 480 megabits per second (Mbps), one-way, that USB 2.0 offers.
“It can all happen at the same time,” Ravencraft said. “The turnaround time has been minimized. We have these dedicated lanes and they can operate simultaneously.” Ravencraft also said that USB 3.0 will be backward compatible both ways, so that consumers who get a nifty new digital camera with USB 3.0 will still be able to download their pictures to their older desktop with its USB 2.0 ports. And new computers with 3.0 will still be able to communicate with 2.0 devices.
The advantage, of course, is that the much faster speed of USB 3.0 will enable the transfer of much larger files, including such behemoths as high-definition video. “We need faster data transfer, so we’re not sitting there watching things download,” said an AMD spokesperson. “It won’t be too long before you’re looking at YouTube videos in HD format. Certainly, AMD’s products are moving in that direction.”
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I cant wait for the USB 3. The speeds should be amazing and it will alow me to backup super quick!
Too bad my hard drives or other things in my PC won’t go that fast. So in turn, you won’t actually reach the 4.7 Gbps for a loooong time (tech time).
You and me both. The speed alone is going to be impressive.
What does “faster data transfer” have to do with “looking at YouTube videos in HD format”? I’m not sure AMD even know what USB 3.0 is?
Talk about exaggeration. Your speed claims assume any of the devices on either end are actually capable of those speeds. Hard drives and digital camera memory cards can’t transfer data anywhere near the speeds you’re claiming they will. Internal hard drives connected via 3Gbps SATA connections can’t transfer files between drives anywhere close to your claimed speeds because the physical hardware doesn’t approach the capabilities of SATA. Memory cards are even slower. Even SSDs won’t approach your proclamations.
Will it provide a great improvement over USB 2.0 for certain applications? Yes. Will it provide some much-needed wiggle room for future improvements in technology? You betcha. Will it allow us to transfer an average hard drive’s worth of data in less than a minute? Nope, never will. As hard drive speeds increase to catch up with its capabilities so will their average size. I don’t think we’ll see a point in USB 3.0’s lifespan that that becomes remotely feasible.
And was the “faster than the speed of light” comment really necessary? Considering the main reason USB 3.0 is as fast as it is is because it has an optical connection running through it and therefore relies on light, I’ll take a wild guess it can’t go faster than itself.
Who cares about this speed…its not like hard drives are even that fast. The current USB 2.0 deals with our external hard drives just fine. We need hardware that can transfer at those speeds, maybe some insanely fast flash memory.
The reports and specs I read concluded that the speeds are real, but you’re right it will depend on the device your transferring data to.
USB3 will be the last nail in the coffin of Firewire.
It’s only a transfer protocol, but rather it should come out now than stay slow and prevent all devices from reaching their rated speeds.
I can’t see this making any major savings in time at the moment. Perhaps when off-the-shelf PCs start selling with standard drives quoted in TB instead of GB, it may have some use.
Didn’t realize that YouTube ran on USB technology.
totally shopped
YouTube has videos posted by people who use recording devices. These devices will eventually be replaced by HD recording devices as the the general public starts buying into the newer products. Newer products (HD recording devices) will have USB 3.0 interfaces. Therefore, USB 3.0 will inevitably lead to YouTube use.
I cant wait for the USB 3. The speeds should be amazing and it will alow me to backup super quick!
Please tell me how USB 3.0 will make fiber optic cables any more efficient? If you can’t come up with an answer worth stating the answer is, it can’t. It just can’t. And who cares about USB 3.0, first of all, only Intel can license you to produce it, which means AMD probably won’t get their hands on it, and what devices it is in, they can charge more for. Now for those of you who want faster video streaming, go bug your Internet service provider about upgrading their hardware’s firmware to IPv6, please remember, everything is limited by the speed of light when asking them to, and before you bug them about it, please, please look up IPv6 perhaps start with a simple Google search about it.
when?….when?….when?…..arrrrrrrgh!!…… WHEN!??
Too bad it might be physically impossible for anything other than light to pass the speed of light…. :|
Well, besides that, it DOES look really cool. :D
Cameras??? MP3 Players??? WTF???
“Been there, DONE THAT” is an under-statement!
This is fast enough to start hooking up inexpensive external CPUs and RAM and Video Cards, your whole system could be based on a USB 3.0 HUB and tons of CPUs or Memory and you could add more all the time, like every time you had a hundred bucks you could add a new CPU to your system, IMAGINE THAT!!!
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE TECH PEOPLE!!!!