Guest Jordan Posted September 19, 2007 Posted September 19, 2007 This is insane. USB 3.0 is being introduced from next year, with speeds of 4.8 gigabits per second. That... is mad. Thoughts? :p Source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/19/120235&from=rss
triforce_keeper Posted September 19, 2007 Posted September 19, 2007 So what does that mean? Can anyone post possibilities as I don't really understand USB etc
Caris Posted September 19, 2007 Posted September 19, 2007 Copying say 10 movies from a memory stick to your PC would take something like 7 minutes with Vista or so mabey? It would take less than a minute with USB 3.0
Guest Stefkov Posted September 19, 2007 Posted September 19, 2007 Read this on Engadget today. Sounds great.
Marshmellow Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Wow! I spose we'll all have to buy new mobos though...
Ant-Shimmin Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Hopefully it won't give off an aftershock like having the Trots for a good few hours Thats Unbelieveably Fast....
thirtynine. Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Well im putting off buying a new PC untill this is available for sure.
mario_jr Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 C'ya Firewire. Firewire was always slow for me. I just stuck with good'ol USB 2.0:awesome:
Twozzok Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 How fast is normal PCI? Will USB 3.0 PCI cards be viable? EDIT: slot != card
McPhee Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Im sure USB 3.0 PCI-E x1 cards would be viable, can't see it only being on new computers (and PCI is being phased out anyway)
Guest Jordan Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 The only reason this thing is so fast is because they're using fibre optic connections as well as copper, this means... well its very fast. With PCI-E 2 coming out eventually and PCI being replaced slowly with PCI-E (i have no idea where i was going with this, so i'm stopping mid sentence!)
Twozzok Posted September 22, 2007 Posted September 22, 2007 Ah, ok. Just as a side note, whats the transfer rate of PCI? (I t6hink thats the correct temrinology)
DCK Posted September 22, 2007 Posted September 22, 2007 PCI has a peak transfer of 266 MB/s, USB3 is apparently 600 MB/s. New mobo time indeed...
Shino Posted September 22, 2007 Posted September 22, 2007 The only reason this thing is so fast is because they're using fibre optic connections as well as copper, this means... well its very fast. With PCI-E 2 coming out eventually and PCI being replaced slowly with PCI-E (i have no idea where i was going with this, so i'm stopping mid sentence!) PCI-E 2?!! You're breaking my balls here! The bandwidth in PCI-E is still far away from being obsolete (and even AGP is still good enough for most GPUS).
McPhee Posted September 22, 2007 Posted September 22, 2007 yes, but theres money to be made and stupid geeks to exploit
Shino Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 I just informed myself a bit more, and there's not only a PCI-E 2.0, but also a PCI-E 3.0 planed for 2009! But thankfully, they are all backwards-compatible, and so should be treated more like revisions than a new (money sucking) technology.
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