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    Get ready for USB 3.0!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ThunderCat69, Aug 14, 2008.

  1. ThunderCat69

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  2. Flossy

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    wOw, Inpressive.. USB 3.0.. There isnt really much diffrence
     
    Flossy, Aug 14, 2008
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  3. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    dude. 10 times more bandwidth! thats great improvement.
     
    tianxia, Aug 14, 2008
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    Wow, I feel like I'm always gonna be lagging behind the times. I am just now getting rid of my old laptop that had USB1.0 and getting USB2.0 ports on the new laptop. Now they come out with the new generation. *sigh*
     
    kievlyanka, Aug 14, 2008
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    LOL I know the feeling.
     
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    USB2.0 was around for a while, dunno how you missed it.

    But now that USB3.0 is comming.. woo hoo
     
    flipfire, Aug 14, 2008
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    Finally is all I could say
     
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  8. K-TRON

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    i dont know why anyone needs usb 3.0, cause the memory cards and such we use for usb 2 cannot even make use of the entire bandwidth of usb2.0.
    I have external harddrives which can push 55-60mb/sec through usb, and every memory card I have tested cannot push past 30mb/sec, so I dont see the point top having a faster hub. It will only generate more heat and prove no performance increase. This is because the current products cant keep up with the 2.0 spec

    K-TRON
     
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  9. stirfriedsushi

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    progress is progress, i'm sure with this new bandwidth and speed capabilities we will find something to make use of it.
     
    stirfriedsushi, Aug 14, 2008
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    I know it's been out for years. It's just that the last time I bought a laptop was in 2002 and USB 1.0 was the standard. Not saying I didn't make use of USB 2.0 on other devices, of course.
     
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    Wow I don't know how you get 60mb/sec through USB 2.0. I have never seen any speed posted that high, on all my external hard drives and different computers the max speed I have seen for USB is 25MB/sec. That is with a raid 0 hard drive set up through usb. Higher bandwidth allows for more things to be plugged in, maybe someday graphics card on a USB 4.0 spec.
     
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    600MB/s is pretty crazy. This will be great in stacking everything onto 1 single wire without loosing bandwidth.
     
    KUNFUCHOPSTICKS, Aug 14, 2008
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    the speed of usb greatly differs based on the usb hub on the laptop/desktop. I have a via usb hub in my laptop, and it can do 60mb/sec through USB, but my same external harddrive will only do 28mb/sec on my e1505 with a ricoh usb hub.

    Indeed new usb hub's will be useful in the future, but we really dont have anything that can use that bandwidth yet.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Aug 14, 2008
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  14. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    Perhaps SSDs? Yes it won't occupy 100% USB 3.0 bandwidth but maybe 1/5th? Which is still faster than current USB 2.0.
     
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    GogogogogogoO! betteer TV-tuners and external sound cards!! Too bad they won't exist for a while. D:
     
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    D3X the robo know it all

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    err.. TV tuners and Sounds cards use expresscard slot (PCI-e 1x), they already exist without any bandwidth issues.
     
    D3X, Aug 14, 2008
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    Stuff doesn't even fully utilize USB 2.0 :confused:
     
    synic, Aug 14, 2008
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    It should be better if you have 2 or more high bandwidth devices on a hub, because if you had say 2 hard drives on a USB 3.0 hub they would each still have 300MB/s versus 24MB/s on USB 2.0.

    -J.B.
     
    Jstn7477, Aug 14, 2008
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  19. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    Hopefully this will be available on Calpella based notebooks! It would suck a lot to buy my laptop at the end of next summer with usb 2.0 and then have 3.0 out in the fall.
     
    Jayayess1190, Aug 14, 2008
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    Exactly! But it sounds nice at first glance am I right or wrong? I mean it took what, 6 posts to realize that this may do no good for anybody in real life usage. :)
     
    Jaycee8980, Aug 15, 2008
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    I've an audio 8 dj from native instruments. it uses usb2 and has awesome audio quality + a lot of ins and outs. no need for usb3 for soundcards. (oh, and low latency, too)
     
    davepermen, Aug 15, 2008
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    it would allow for usb added external screens.. :) fast enough for displays.. uhh.. :)

    now that'll be fun at my dj set :)
     
    davepermen, Aug 15, 2008
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    The speed you quote, 60MB/s is theoretical maximum for the USB2.0 protocol, there is no way you can obtain that speed on ANY computer. It has been tested and known that the maximum useable bandwidtg for USB2.0 is much lower and nowhere near what you state. There is overhead in the USB protocol that takes up a lot of the bandwidth there too so there is no way that your external hard drives can reach 60MB/s through USB2.0. I think the maximum anywhere I have seen before your claim of 60MB/s through USB2.0 was 35MB/s which is well below what a hard drive can transfer at.
     
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  24. K-TRON

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    It is possible to get 60mb/sec through USB. My corsair flash voyager GT and my homemade external harddrive can push 60mb/sec through USB.
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    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Aug 15, 2008
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    Music production - finally USB will seriously compete with Firewire.
     
    kylezo, Aug 16, 2008
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