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A Late Adopter's Guide To USB 3.0

Posted by timothy on from the will-wait-for-the-really-late-adopter's-guide dept.

crookedvulture writes "Even with cheap external hard drives, USB 3.0 offers roughly double the real-world transfer rates of old-school USB 2.0. It's no wonder, then, that USB 3.0 ports are available on most new systems. But what if you want to add USB 3.0 to an existing one? This article goes over what's required and explores the sort of performance improvements you can expect to see. Looks like a no-brainer for anyone who does a lot of transfers to external hard drives."

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  1. there is a usb 2.0 to ISA card by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.arstech.com/item-USB-2-0-to-ISA-card-ROHS-usb2isar.html

    there is a Zorro to USB 2.0 card.

    http://www.e3b.de/usb/

  2. Re:USB3 vs Intel Thunderbolt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    16,777,216 is the number of possible colors in a 24 bit color space (256 shades = 8 bits, 8 Red + 8 Green+ 8 Blue = 24 bits)

    So 24*1920*1080 = 49,766,400 bits, multiply that frame by 60hz and its still 2.985 gigabit per second, and that's assuming no compression