USB 3.0 coming later this year
July 2, 2009 by Robin Parrish
Filed under Electronics
Nikkei Electronics Asia suggests that the first USB 3.0-enabled PCs and devices could begin appearing as soon as holiday season of this year. Early estimates had USB 3.0 not arriving until sometime in 2010, but Nikkei says that thanks to the faster-than-expected development of “compliant integrated circuits (IC), instruments for equipment developers, and more” throughout the industry.
The USB 3.0 spec, aka “SuperSpeed USB,” claims that it will offer 4.8Gbps transfers, allowing for everything from crazy-fast file dumps to 1080i HD video streams to external monitors. Like the USB 2.0 specification before it, USB 3.0 will be 100% backwards compatible with prior USB hardware, but you’ll need 3.0 hardware on both ends to achieve the highest transfer speeds.
Image: USB Implementer’s Forum, Inc.
4.8 GBps transfer rate??!!Way too fast!
it’s 4,8 Gbps, not 4,8 GBps!
There is a biiig difference..
4,8 GBps is 8 times more than 4,8 Gbps..
4,8 Gbps is 600 MBps which is still fast.
If you had an 2TB external hdd plugged in to your laptop, you could fill it up in just an hour..
With USB 2.0 (60MBps) that would take 10 hours..