It's been nearly a year since we first saw the USB 3.0 connector
make an appearance at CES, and after months of
corporate infighting,
spec-polishing, and
technical navel-gazing, the future of consumer peripheral connectivity is here -- in the form of complete specifications and a demo. Yeah, so maybe SuperSpeed USB isn't making the most dramatic entrance ever, but hey, it doesn't have to with 4.8Gbps transfer speeds, improved power management, and backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 along for the ride. As expected, the first wave of devices won't hit until 2010, but Symwave's giving attendees of this week's SuperSpeed conference a taste of tomorrow with a demo of the Quasar USB 3.0 chipset, which is targeted at "sync-and-go" devices like phones and media players. Sounds lovely -- now if you'll excuse us, we have to go back to mourning the death of FireWire 400.
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Read - SuperSpeed USB 3.0 spec released
Read - Symwave demos first USB 3.0 physical layer device
posted Nov 17th 2008 1:28PM
I can't wait until it hits and I can't start building computers with usb 3.0 fun fun.
WARNING
High Speed USB product plugged into non-high speed port. Your device may not work properly...
Computers with ieee-1394 v3.1 with 3200 Mb/s will be even more fun.
if 2.0 is Hi-Speed and 3.0 is SuperSpeed, what will 4.0 be? Hyper Speed?
Hi-Super-Speed
4.0 will be high xD
Bastard-Speed
Ludicrous speed!
Ludicrous-speed. It goes at the speed of plaid.
Crazy Speed.
ramming speed, of course.
iPeed
SuperHappyLuckyMiracleSpeed!
Speed of light.
It'll be called Chuck Norris Speed.
damnit jon...i was just thinking that, classic spaceballs
ludicrous speed!
It's a bag of hurt!
firewire speed
Oh no! Not Ludicrous speed!
Let's hope by then a fiber solution emerges that's viable for the consumer market.
warp 1.1... can i have an engage anyone?
WARP SPEED
I-got-a-speeding-ticket speed!!!
2.0 high speed
3.0 super speed
4.0 sonic speed
5.0 light speed ....
how will it be..... don't worry we will definetly achieve it ......
all the best and great welcome to USB3.0 let beat the firewire
Super Duper Speed !
Maybe now external USB hard drives won't be so unbearably slow. xD
No. Future USB drives will be faster... in 2010. It won't help drives you already have.
Why wait? Go eSATA and enjoy fast speeds now!
It's true.. It's full duplex, meaning that the computer gets its own dedicated lane to the device and vice versa. It allows for copper AND fiber cables, meaning your devices will be able to reach longer distances and it now makes sense to hookup 2 computers together to transfer data (at least until 10GigE makes its debut for consumer computers).
The one advantage Firewire has over USB, is the fact it uses DMA (Direct Memory Access), which results in less overhead and CPU usage. However, you can plug in many more USB devices to a system than Firewire (it's the trade off).
I, for one, welcome our new USB3 overlords
KENYAN speed
Doesn't USB3 use DMA? Surely you can ram those speed over classical USB setups, your computer would stall to a standstill.
except that eSATA wouldn't work on most computers, becuase most don't have eSATA ports, which makes the portability mean nothing
> "except that eSATA wouldn't work on most computers, becuase most don't have eSATA ports, which makes the portability mean nothing"
Get an enclosure that has both USB and eSATA.
eSATA speed when you're at home... USB portability when you're on the road.
@Precurse
Incorrect. Firewire devices can be daisy chained into the dozens like the old SCSI of late..
3 USB 3.0 something Macbooks wont have
Yeah, it's too bad you can't daisy-chain USB 3 devices.
Oh, wait.
Nah, MacBooks will have USB 3.0 in 2010. Then in 2011 Jobs will declare it dead and pull it from all future products.
Unless Jobs calls USB 3 a bag of hurt and makes his own holy port.. and then calls USB 3 limited to justify the holy port....
You won't be laughing when apple releases iWire*
*iWire copyright 2008 Listedfirst.com
It's mine now!
2010! That's like a whole year and a bit away!
I need Asus to fit this to one of their trusty EEEpcs right now. They've made a name for themselves with the ever increasing netbook product revisions.
GO ASUS!
This is real nice, but remember it will be running on Windows 7 in 2010.
I hope the new spec will improve the spinning performance of my USB powered desk fan.
rumors on the streets is that it will run more efficiently ;)
I think that it changes the fan from blow to suck...
^^
No, that would be the USB powered RoboProstitute
I don't think it will. The performance of a fan is limited by the power the port can supply, not by transfer speeds. I don't think they will go above the current 2.5W supplied by the port. I do think they should it just a bit, maybe to 5W.
ha ha ha ha
ashwin we tried getting the captian to wait but hes on a tight schedule. sorry, you;ll have to catch the next boat.
@ Ashwin:
The only thing I can respond to that with is:
WOOOOOSH!
Bastard-Speed