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Technology Chat => New Technology, Science etc ... => Topic started by: Data on August 29, 2011, 19:19:44 PM

Title: How fast is USB 3?
Post by: Data on August 29, 2011, 19:19:44 PM
This fast:

Windows 8 USB 3.0 support (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc2e57dPDUw#ws)
Title: Re: How fast is USB 3?
Post by: Data on August 30, 2011, 23:11:41 PM
So going by the video, realistically we can expect to see something around the 200MB per second mark.

And you don't have to have Windows 8 either to run USB 3, as long as you have the drivers for the PCI e card or motherboard (if the USB is on motherboard) it should work fine in XP, Vista and Win 7. 
Title: Re: How fast is USB 3?
Post by: Freddy on August 31, 2011, 11:44:44 AM
Interesting, that's double the speed of Ethernet.
Title: Re: How fast is USB 3?
Post by: Snowcrash on August 31, 2011, 17:56:03 PM
200MB/s is 1.6G bit. Or 1.6 times faster than giga bit ethernet or 16 times faster than 100 mega bit ethernet .

Where you at? I have giga bit LAN/ethernet .
Title: Re: How fast is USB 3?
Post by: Freddy on August 31, 2011, 18:51:23 PM
Oh yep, I thought Data was quoting MegaBits (Mbps) rather than MegaBytes (MBps). 

I think I am around ethernet, mines a hybrid - Mains Network LAN and Wireless.  I reckon it is sub 100Mbs though.  Fast enough for my purposes atm.
Title: Re: How fast is USB 3?
Post by: DaveMorton on August 31, 2011, 20:48:32 PM
You know, combine this with an SSD or two, GB LAN, and a nice quad core 64 bit CPU with 16GB RAM, and... and...

{ye, GAWDS! I think I've just soiled myself!} :D
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