I have previously written about the USB 3.0 format which was high speed and prime for video streaming (USB 3.0 for Video Streaming). The excitement for USB 3.0 continues and I am particularly waiting for Buffalo to release their Hard disk drives running on USB 3.0 before the end of the month.

Buffalo is one of the few companies I am loyal to for my hard disk usage as this company specializes in durable portable hard disks that can withstand rough travel usage. Buffalo is a company that has offices in Japan, USA, Germany, UK, Ireland and Taiwan and offer …read more

Reports and news has been on-going for quite sometime that the USB 3.0 is expected to ship out before the end of 2009 from Taiwanese manufacturers.

USB 3.0 is also dubbed as SuperSpeed Universal Serial Bus (USB), and is the next generation of USB interface. The conference held in Tokyo last May 20-21, 2009 indicates that USB 3.0 is full speed ahead and computers would carry this new interface.
What does faster USB mean? Faster file transfer? One of the things industry is expecting is the proliferation of Video streaming since the USB 3.0 is capable of streaming 1080i …read more

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 …read more