Symwave to demo USB 3.0 external storage solution at CES
By Darren Murph 
posted Dec 31st 2008 12:06AM
posted Dec 31st 2008 12:06AM
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Hopefully it really is fast, cuz after having my external 500gig, and transfering 4gig HD movies to it, it takes like 3 minutes to transfer.
WARNING: High speed USB device plugged into non-High Speed port. You're hardware may not work properly. To resolve this issue Click Here X
Your X. It does nothing.
::shakes fist::
Just another thing to make my ipod become obsolete faster *glares at steve jobs* - *quickly takes back glare and hopes for forgiveness*
WTH does Steve Jobs have to do with any of this?
Everyone knows that the real reason he's getting ill is because he replaced his nervous system with daisy-chained firewire cables. He's not even thinking about USB.
You're gonna have to start glaring at Phil...
would be great if all the old usb 2 devices can run at 3 speed as long as you have them on the computer.
No. They won't. Pretty obvious.
Yeahhhh...
The adapters aren't even the same. I don't think they will be backwards compatible..
would be nice if my parents dial-up connection could handle broadband speeds if i plug it into my ethernet port
...god i hate being home
if it's not at least two terabytes I'm not interested
If they could transfer 2TB from a laptop to a external drive - in less than 5 minutes - I'd be impressed
If they came up with a 2 Tb single external drive I'm impressed.
@Arkenklo
Almost there -- Seagate has a single 1.5 TB hard drive. Also, it's "TB" (byte), not "Tb" (bit).
I know. That's why 2 Tb would be impressive.
Actually, it's TiB, Tebibyte, 1024^4. TB = 10^6 byte = 8*10^6 bit. Tb = 10^6 bit. But I usually write Tb, it looks better then TB.
What they need to do is get two of those ridiculous terabyte ssd raid arrays and transfer a good 200 gigs between the two over usb3. That would probably demonstrate usb3's speed quite effectively.
Calculating a 100mb/sec average (approx the max speed of a modern 10'000 rpm sata 2 disk) 2 Tb (2000 Gb) would take 2000/100 = 20 secs to transfer. That's impressive.
Omg, I mean 200 secs, 3 min 20 sec. Sorry.
Wtf, I usually don't fail this hard.
2'000 Gb = 2'000'000 Mb
2'000'000/100 = 20'000 sec = almost 6 hours. I hope.
Yea, that was pretty hardcore failing...
2 Terabytes in binary = 1024^4 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes x2 = 2,199,023,255,552 bytes
100 Megabytes in binary = 1024^2 = 1,048,576 bytes x100 = 104,857,600 bytes
2,199,023,255,552 / 104,857,600 *-1sec = 20,972 seconds = 349 minutes = 5 hours 49 minutes
I wonder what Usb will be called, Ultra Speed?
* Usb 4
Goddamn typos.
SuperMegaMaxispeed USB.
Obviously.
Actually....it would be called hyperspeed, but who's counting?
That would be "Ultra Speed certified USB"
Pretty sure USB 4 is approaching ludicrous speed.
you might want to proofread first before posting :P
and when USB 4 finally come out, the data it's transferring would approaching ludicrously large.
Ludicrous Speed!!!!!!!!!!
I think you'll find it's god-speed.
Are there any hard drive solutions, ssd in some sort of raid array perhaps, that could even attain 5GB/s? It is going to be difficult to max this spec out.
Oh excuse me, 5 Gb/s
Well, first of all, that 4.8 Gbps is a theoretical signaling rate, so more likely it will max out around ~3.5-4.0. Even at 4.0 Gbps, that is 500MB/sec. with traditional harddrives, you would need a significant RAID system to max that out, probably five disks or more. However, with SSDs it's a whole other story. Intel's 80/160GB X-25 SSDs (the lower-end MLC version) max out at around 230MB/sec read speed, so a pair of those would probably come close to saturating the connection...
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/10/review_intel_x_25m_ssd/page3.html
good
Why bother with usb 3? we have Esata right now for storage. usb 2 for slower external stuff. Right?
but why not?
But for everything else? Your soon-to-be-superfast wifi usb-modem, your external graphic-card? That's what Usb will enable and that's the reason for Usb 3. Well not just those, but any data-intensive general external appliance.
Do we still need external power supply for this?