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Thread ID: 103476 2009-09-24 22:15:00 USB 3.00 Coming soon ! Digby (677) PC World Chat
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813469 2009-09-24 22:15:00 This is looks good.
It will be very fast !

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I don't quite work out how the plugs work backwards capability wise.
Digby (677)
813470 2009-09-24 22:48:00 Too bad no mobos exist, that support it. ASUS HAD one but scrapped it Speedy Gonzales (78)
813471 2009-09-24 22:52:00 "To put this in perspective, copying a 6Gb movie from an external drive with bog standard USB typically takes just over 2 hours. Using USB 3.0 it'll slip to a jaw dropping 3.3 minutes."

No mention that the speeds of the hard drives themselves are the limitations at the moment.
PaulD (232)
813472 2009-09-24 23:04:00 Makes Sata seem a bit redundant. R2x1 (4628)
813473 2009-09-24 23:05:00 Well no, because there's also SATA 3 and seagate have just released a SATA 3 hdd (2 TB). It looks like gigabyte have released a / or some mobos that support SATA 3. And some more expensive ASUS mobos also support it Speedy Gonzales (78)
813474 2009-09-24 23:05:00 This statement To put this in perspective, copying a 6Gb movie from an external drive with bog standard USB typically takes just over 2 hours. is not correct!!.....LOL. 1) it does not take 2 hrs to copy 6Gb on my Voyager & 2) 10 x 3.3 minutes!...LOL.
Still it will be very quick, close to SATA3, Hmmmm, holding off for Gulftown w\ SATA3 & USB3...wicked.
SolMiester (139)
813475 2009-09-24 23:24:00 This is looks good.
It will be very fast !

www.nzherald.co.nz

I don't quite work out how the plugs work backwards capability wise.

this has been "comming soon" for about 8 years....
robsonde (120)
813476 2009-09-24 23:35:00 I will hang out for USB 4.00 prefect (6291)
813477 2009-09-25 01:25:00 If USB 3 is supposed to be so fast, how come USB 1 got here 10 years earlier? ;) R2x1 (4628)
813478 2009-09-25 06:02:00 6Gb takes 2 hours? Then how did I copy 72Gb to a new 500Gb external drive in under an hour?

Maybe 2 hours on USB 1.1, but not USB 2.

As for the pin config, this (apcmag.com) might help.
ubergeek85 (131)
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