USB 3.0!

Django x2 · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:16

Interesting!!

http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=7082sx

willhub · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:17

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NVIDIA_x64 · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:21

Can't wait

MikeHunt79 · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:22

Err so how fast is it? USB 2.0 is 400MBps isn't it?

Shamikebab · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:24

Quick, 4.8Gbit/s

dr4g0nf1y · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:24

I've read 625mbps

AbsenceJam · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:29

MikeHunt79 said:
Err so how fast is it? USB 2.0 is 400MBps isn't it?

480 but less than half that sustained.

MikeHunt79 · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:32

Shamikebab said:
Quick, 4.8Gbit/s

Nice, should supersede things like esata then I'd think

AbsenceJam said:
480 but less than half that sustained.

That's pretty good considering how long it's been around...

BiGT- · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:41

Maximum speed ive transferred files is 28mb/s, its meant to be 400mb/s :confused:

JRS · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:47

BiGT- said:
Maximum speed ive transferred files is 28mb/s, its meant to be 400mb/s

Megabits per second, not megabytes

Talrinys · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:48

BiGT- said:
Maximum speed ive transferred files is 28mb/s, its meant to be 400mb/s

You've transferred 28Mb/s

Dano · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:48

BiGT- said:
Maximum speed ive transferred files is 28mb/s, its meant to be 400mb/s

Mega bits or bytes though, and what to as that will have a massive impact on transfer speeds.

bledd · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:48

lol

Mbp/s isn't mb/s

Fegruson · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:51

BiGT- said:
Maximum speed ive transferred files is 28mb/s, its meant to be 400mb/s

Are you sure its not 28MB/s as this is how Windows calculates it. That would equate to 224mb/s.

Also, I heard it was 3.0gb/s, as this is what current SATA connection speeds are at, surely if an OS needs to read the dat on the device, then it wouldn't supercede 3.0gb/s

AbsenceJam · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:51

bledd. said:
lol

Mbp/s isn't mb/s

There's no mb, it's Mb and MB.

bledd · 2 Sep 2009 at 15:53

touche'

willhub · 2 Sep 2009 at 16:38

28mb/s is 280MB/s

Or something like that

Like 10mbit broadband you download around 1MB/s

theheyes · 2 Sep 2009 at 16:39

Anything that does something we do already now, but faster, is always a winner. Can't wait.

theheyes · 2 Sep 2009 at 16:56

Data rate is measured in bits (b) per second, and remember there are 8 bits (b) in a Byte (B).

USB2 operates at 480Mbps (480,000,000 bits per second) which is approximately 60MB/s (megabytes). In reality you get a lot less than that without the amount of overheads involved.

It can cause all sorts of confusion when different sources use decimal or binary multiples when working things out. I've used the decimal multiples to arrive at 60MB/s - if you used binary multiples you would get a different answer (but still a ballpark figure that is fairly close to 60MB/s)

linktoinsanity · 2 Sep 2009 at 17:19

Nice!

Isn't this hardware though? Not software...