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USB 3.0 Getting a Speed Boost To 10 Gbps
cylonlover writes "The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has used CES 2013 to announce an enhancement to the USB 3.0 (aka SuperSpeed USB) standard that will see the throughput performance of USB 3.0 double from 5 Gbps to 10 Gbps. The speed boost will come courtesy of enhanced USB connectors and cables that are fully backward compatible with existing USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 devices. The 10 Gbps SuperSpeed USB update (pdf) is up for industry review during the first quarter of 2013, with completion of the standard expected by the middle of the year."
I can transfer my porn to thumb drive in only a couple of hours now!!!!
No kidding. I bought a college textbook, it was "5th edition" and just released prior to my semester starting. After the semester I tried to sell it only to be told by the college bookstore that it had been replaced. I looked and the book that replaced it was "5th edition" then the bookstore clerk said it was "5th edition, 2nd revision". My response probably made me sound like a cross between Joe Pesci and Yosemite Sam. Stupid book publishers...
They should at least change it to USB 3.1 or something, like what they did with HDMI versioning.
Maybe call it USB SuperSpeed 3.1?
It will never take off then. Everyone will wait for USB 3.11 For Workgroups.
Just stay away from USB LudicrousSpeed. I tried it and my wallpaper was changed to this
*never quite understood that - it's not *that* much harder than the blocks-and-holes puzzles they solved as a toddler.
Users have experienced the USB disorientability principle (try to plug in USB cable, doesn't fit, rotate connector 180 degrees, still doesn't fit, rotate connector again, plugs right in) enough times that they're concluded computer cables exist in some inscrutable 5-dimensional space and given up trying to understand what plugs in where and why.
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