Doesn't that mean your hard drives have to sustain 385MB/sec? Even with RAID, that's not so easy to achieve.

shaneschofield

@utube2007: 700 times longer than you spent reading the article. In other words, 700 seconds.

jayhawk11

@utube2007: It takes me around 10-15 minutes, but this is on a 5400 RPM laptop drive in an external USB case.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

I hope they include it on the new x58 boards!

mikecoscia

Just out of curiousity how long does it take 27gb's to tranfer with 2.0 now

utube2007

This rules!!! Release date? and do we (presumably), need to buy a pci-(e) card or similar solution to add this to desktop functionality for older machines? OR for ANY machines actually as it's so new......hmmmm.

Faslane66

@dsenier: You say that now, but once we have 500 gig HD TV Shows, it will seem slow again. What would that be, like 4320p?

smartboydan has a headache

Another great thing about USB 2 is that it came in black or grey, instead of that hideous blue.

eblingmis

With the new SATA and now USB 3 we are on the verge of becoming data gods.

dsenier

900mA should vastly improve the USB-powered popcorn popper.

whootowl

Wasn't the great thing about USB 2 that it was backwards compatible with usb 1.1? And that was why, among other things, Firewire 800 failed?

Ethan Halko!

maybe it's just the lack of contexts to judge the scale by, but the "mini" USB looks GAINT.

Schulman99

Good news for those external hard drives on USB, and MP3 players, and transferring pictures from your camera..and..

aR-Tard

@Mr.SithNinja: It also means there might actually be viable popcorn poppers and omelet pans powered by USB3.

Git Em SteveDave displays attention-grabbing vanity

great now i have to spend more money...

mmplisskin

B-side USB and mini USB look like the old connectors with a second plug added on. Not a big fan of new mini-USB, the old design was clean, simple and less fragile looking.

The Lab

@GhostofCharlesBronson: not if u watch online
USB wont fix DSL

jozen

So no fiber-optic channel than?

MagnoliaBoy

Does this mean that the "next gen" of USB Pole Dancers and Humping Dogs will move 10 times as fast?? NIIICCCEEE!!!!

Mr.SithNinja

Anything to move my porn along faster ...

GhostofCharlesBronson

27gb in 70 seconds seems quick now... still the thought of syncing an ipod in under a minute does seem pretty tempting.

(yes i know that 70 seconds is longer than a minute, just some devices have less that 27 gb on them)

B1663R

900mA?! Wow, guess I'll have to stop using my laptop in the tub

TheCapt

I would have been ok with something that wasn't so easy to plug in backwards, sort of like usb 1 and usb 2... so that when my grandma calls me telling me that her USB device won't plug into the USB port on her computer, I don't have to say "turn it around"...

med

@Xavoc: It might, or it might not. If it doesn't, then it might as well be called Failwire, since eSATA is mighty fast as it is.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

@Xavoc: If you're referring to Firewire having better sustained speeds than USB 2.0, then yes. I remember reading somewhere that 3.0 fixed that problem, so it has steady, sustained transfer rates at *insert transfer speed here*.

@shaneschofield: To get the types of write times that are possible with 3.0, yeah. Its really more future proofing than anything...I'm sure 5 years down the road we'll have SSD's that can do that.

jayhawk11

great so now I can theoretically transfer 27GBs in 70 seconds to a drive that has no hope in hell of writing that fast! I won't be rushing out to purchase USB 3.0 any time soon

jimbowyer

I hope they just stick with regular USB3 and Mini USB3. We don't need 30 different connectors for everything.

got no clutch? You ain't much.

@Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish: But does this mean that drive read/write times for USB 3.0 will actually match that of Firewire 400 finally?

Xavoc

Connectors designed by a committee- next on the New At 10!

DeadWriter

Great, I just got USB 2.0 you assholes!

Ike_Skelton

900mA isn't a big whoop unless it's guaranteed per-device like USB 2.0's 100mA. In USB 2.0, a device connected directly to the root could receive 500mA (in order to guarantee 100mA to each device in a 4-port hub, including the hub itself).

rentahero1

OMG FINALLY

vgart

Hmmmm.... I guess this will compliment my floppy drive.

NinjaChungPowerful

Not digging the new MINI USB. That one won't be BC with the old one...and it's going to hog way more room when it comes to designing very razor thin mobile phones of which I am a big fan of...

CutePuppyz

@utube2007: Good point. I feel like that ain't to far off from what I do now. And then when you think about fire wire, it seems kind of paltry in comparison.

ibelli

hopefully the new tech will actually get into new computers soon....i need as much USB power as I can get!

loyaleagle

I think USB is one of the worst designed plugs in all of computerdom. There's no common up or down or left or right. How many times have you tried to plug USB into a port only to find it was the wrong way? It's impossible to tell which way to insert the plug without visually inspecting both the male and female side (which is a sign of poor design)

And who came up with the goofy pitchfork symbol?

navstar

Ah! I wondered when this would come...

pardyhardy

Wow I wonder what Blackberry will do. Between this and SATA Rev 3 I smell a RICO case coming up.

Justapspfan

@navstar:

And who came up with the goofy pitchfork symbol?

I think it's pretty obvious.

[www.adpulp.com]

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

USB is a weak...

I only use my computer's IR port to transfer data...

Daytodaz3

@navstar:

Point A agreed, it should have symmetrical connector things, but then again, some devices are only meant to be used in one direction, but THEN AGAIN I hate fumbling with stuff behind a computer.

kmkl

Now I feel like a caveman again.

Impetuous_Vigor

t. Now I'm gonna have to register my USB missile launcher with the ATF.

Cupajo

I agree that USB design is gay. I have to always look at the port to plug it in because chances are I have it the wrong way and god forbid me poking the USB port for hours on end when I got other crap to do.

addiktion

@addiktion:
Wow if you spend time thinking about the two seconds wasted on flipping a USB plug over I don't wanna have your life.

daftrok

@jayhawk11:
They fixed that problem? That's funny, because from what I've understand, and what I have heard, that the very master-slave architecture of USB (1.1, 2.0 and 3.0) relies heavily on the host processor for arbitration. If only two thirds of the theoretical speed of USB 2.0 has been achieved, then USB 3.0 will be much worse. The only solution I can see is offloading that arbitration onto dedicated chip, however that will make it far more expensive for manufacturers to implement. The only other possibility is that Intel is relying on the fact that no HDDs (or other consumer devices) can currently consume that huge bandwidth, and so the problem won't become apparent for a long time.

nimblesquirrel

@Ethan Halko!:
FTFA "this more efficient communication strategy will be backward compatible to USB 2.0 devices as well."

jam3972

Will they start putting these on monitors and TVs so it will fulfill the Universal part of the name?

reddingofish

But can it hold that speed, or will it drop down to something slower most of the time like USB 2?

videoCWK