Comments on: Intel says USB 3 on its way, despite AMD and Nvidia’s complaints

By: remyj

remyj — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:38:33 +0000

I would think that this is a major technology now that we are all in the HD video era. If one was to try to move a video filling enough space to cram a BlueRay disk, how long would that take over USB 2.0? Answer: Too long. While HD video cams and Smartphones with many GB of storage proliferate, we are going to need a much faster transport agent and USB appears to be the game changer. I really hope there is more press coverage of this over the next few months and i would love to see it released with hardware available by Christmas of 2010.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:14:27 +0000

Im not sure how long it takes, but to say copy 10 albums in flac to a PMP device, thats about 5Gb.. then you have the same quality on your pmp as in your archive, no need to mess around with files and make lower quality mp3 files.

Also moving a 100Gb or more to an external drive would be nice if it was as fast as possible, letting the harddrive become the bottleneck instead of the interface..

Since external disks with firewire 800 or even old firewire 400 is moving data faster than USB2 then the inteface has beome a bottleneck.. wich is not good since HDD’s will only become faster over time and the bottleneck will become worse.. its good if we see USB3 soon.

By: dwalk51

dwalk51 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:38:03 +0000

About the fastness of your touch:
1) It’s a flash storage device, and as pretty much all flash storage devices, its fast as hell anyway.
2) A movie for iPod touch viewing can’t be over 1GB at most.
Now consider people who:
1) Use an external hard drive through USB to back up their computer
2) Load movies onto their hard drive based iPods
3) Do anything that speed would be nice in involving USB.

Gotcha!