USB 3.0 Getting a Speed Boost To 10 Gbps

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 7, 2013 @02:11AM from the greased-lightning dept.

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."

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Re:Standards by LordLimecat · 2013-01-07 02:26 · Score: 5, Insightful

USB will never replace SATA:
* It hits the CPU for each transfer
* the overhead is higher
* The latency is way higher, as it needs to set up and tear down connections for each transfer
* It doesnt support ATA commands (TRIM, for one)