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| Thread ID: 118014 | 2011-05-16 01:53:00 | USB 3 | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1202371 | 2011-05-16 01:53:00 | Anybody tried or used USB 3. Seems slow to take off? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1202372 | 2011-05-16 02:00:00 | My netbook has it, but I don't have any USB 3.0 devices to take advantage of it :p | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1202373 | 2011-05-16 02:07:00 | My insert random device has it, but I don't have any USB 3.0 devices to take advantage of it :p Ditto |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1202374 | 2011-05-16 02:14:00 | brought a few 500gb drives but havent had the time to have a test run, users just shove them in the front ports anyway which are generally usb2 | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1202375 | 2011-05-16 03:04:00 | That's my problem too. My GA-P55A-UD4 has two USB3 ports at the back and no USB3 headers. I've only ever bought Gigabyte but I'm wondering if Asus might be the way to go in the future... The May issue of apc compares an Asus P67 MB with its Gigabyte equivalent - makes a point of the Asus having USB3 headers while the GA still doesn't |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1202376 | 2011-05-16 03:45:00 | Don't have it and I doubt I have anything that requires transfer speeds that high yet... External hard drives seem just fine on USB2 at the moment (and no way am I going to pay for an external SSD) I expect I will only end up with USB3 on my next upgrade when most motherboards support it but even then I doubt I'll use it. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1202377 | 2011-05-16 04:12:00 | Yeah it's one of those things I'm happy to wait for with respect to speeds. No real need to rush out and upgrade just yet personally :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1202378 | 2011-05-16 07:30:00 | I have it. No devices though. I mean it's pretty stupid considering it was released late 2009. But I'm pretty keen to try thunderbolt when you can finally get that for PC. I think that will be the future. | dpDesignz (15919) | ||
| 1202379 | 2011-05-16 07:41:00 | Thunderbolt sounds like just another pointless and proprietary piece of junk: "other than charging slightly faster, it is nothing USB3 could not do. The transfers will be limited by the speed of the flash chips, and USB3 would be more than fast enough to saturate that, and would likely do it with much lower power use, with much higher compatibility, and for about 1/10th the silicon cost. USB3 is also backwards compatible, TB is not, and neither is Tuberculosis." There is one supplier of TB chips, Intel. There are not going to be any others. Apple has special status with Intel on this, exclusivity for now, with Sony and Lenovo coming in later, then anyone else deemed appropriate sometime later. Thunderbolt is not a standard, it is 100% proprietary, and is the ultimate lock in. If you want to make an iSomething compatible device, there is only one company that can make the chips, Intel. If Apple says no, how many do you think Intel will sell you? (semiaccurate.com) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1202380 | 2011-05-16 07:46:00 | I have it. No devices though. I mean it's pretty stupid considering it was released late 2009. But I'm pretty keen to try thunderbolt when you can finally get that for PC. I think that will be the future. Going from 1 to 2 was just about immediate, but 3 seems in no hurry! |
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