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USB 3 in 2008, 10 Times as Fast

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-believe-it-when-it's-on-my-laptop dept.

psychicsword writes "Intel and others plan to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology in the first half of 2008, a revamp the chipmaker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber-optic links alongside the traditional copper wires." "The current USB 2.0 version has a top data-transfer rate of 480 megabits per second, so a tenfold increase would be 4.8 gigabits per second." This should make USB hard drives easier and faster to use."

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  1. Re:Sounds like... by pla · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...you have a hardware problem. Check your power supply, you may be suffering what we in the trade call a +5SB undervolt.

    The same problem with a racked PowerEdge server (RHEL), a top-of-the-line Latitude laptop (XP), and a hand-built greybox (XP, Slackware, Knoppix) using some of the highest quality parts available (ABit KN8-SLI, Seasonic power supply, OCZ memory)?

    I would tend to agree with you for a one-off problem. But those three have literally nothing in common.

    Like I said, perhaps I just have bad luck with USB. But I can only let it burn me so many times before I conclude the interface itself (or at least, most implementations thereof) sucks rather than merely my experiences with it.